Introducing Corus

Hello!

I'm very excited to announce Corus, a new social network centered around connecting over the music and film you love.

When I was in high school, I had a little music blog where I shared one song a day. I'd write a short blurb about why I loved it. It started with no one reading it, and slowly grew until I felt like I was doing something real. I kept it up because the simple act of sharing a song with people meant something to me. It was a ritual of self-expression that allowed me to share with the world who I was.

In college, a few friends and I built an app called Cymbal based on that idea. The premise was simple. Share the one song you're obsessed with right now. Follow friends and people whose taste you trust. See a feed of one song per person. It was wonderful. Twelve years ago, circumstances got hard and we had to shut it down.

I've missed it ever since. Music has always been about community. We make mixtapes. We go to shows together. We bond over shared taste. Somehow though, the internet and big-tech turned music discovery into a solo experience, where an algorithm just feeds you more of what you already like. Social media is packed with ads. AI slop is filling up every corner of the internet. We've been pushed to present versions of ourselves that don't really reflect who we are. The original promise of the internet was to bring us closer together, and I used to believe in it. Money and bad incentives got in the way. With Corus, I'd like to push back in the other direction.

On Corus, you share the music and film you love. You curate a profile that's a real representation of you. You follow friends and strangers, and you get a chronological feed of their picks. You can tap to preview a song, open a feed or profile as a playlist in Spotify, or play tracks in full with Apple Music inside the app. As you post, Corus connects you with people who share your taste. The same songs, the same artists, the same directors. You can like, comment, repost. The important thing is that it's a place about what you love, not about what you hate. Art is just better when it comes from real people.

There are no ads. There's no algorithmic feed. There's no AI-generated content pretending to be human. There's a small optional subscription, $2.99 a month, for some fun profile customization. Mostly it's there to help keep Corus alive and ad-free for the long haul.

I'd love for you to give it a try. Corus is on the App Store and Google Play. You can also use Corus on the web at app.corus.fm. You can follow along @corusapp.

Thanks for reading. Happy listening.

Gabe