About.
Ocean Labs LLC is a small software studio designing and shipping open-source tools for the music ecosystem.
Studio
01What we make.
We build software for musicians, listeners, and the people working on the open music stack. Our first project is Open Music Art — an open-source streaming platform that pays artists directly and gives listeners full control of their library.
We're not in a hurry. We'd rather ship one thing that lasts than three things that don't.
Practice
02How we work.
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Open by default
Source code, formats, and decisions in the open whenever we can. Closed only when it has to be.
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Small on purpose
Few people, slow tempo, long horizon. Software that has to outlive a quarterly review can't be built like one.
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Built like a record
We treat each release like a piece of work: shaped, finished, then sent out into the world to live its own life.
Origin
03Why music.
Because independent music has spent two decades being routed through closed pipes, and the people who pay the bill — listeners and artists — are the ones with the least leverage in the room.
We don't think a single tool fixes that. We think a generation of small, well-made, open tools might, and we're interested in building a few of them.