qnch

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Run your own
streaming service

Station is a music streaming network for the DIY minded. Fans stream directly off your machine. Payments are minimally extractive.

one command
curl -sSL https://qnch.network/install.sh -o install.sh && sudo bash install.sh --network testnet

Preview and tinker for free. Everything works exactly as it will at launch, on a network built for practice. Read the docs →

Get ready for something different

Three services, no platforms

Station

the service

Each artist hosts their own music catalog.

qnch

the network

Each Station instance is a participant in a peer-to-peer network.

FanSociety

fan clubs

A crowdfunding and patronage service, integrated natively with Station.

The Sweet Spot for DIYing without being isolated

01more about the three services

Setup

DIY toolkit for DIY musicians

  1. Get a server

    Intimidating? It's actually really simple. Providers start around $4 a month. Get a domain or use your existing one.

    No domain of your own? The installer will help you set up a free DuckDNS subdomain instead.

  2. Run one command

    Copy the install command to run the interactive installer. Answer a few questions, the installer does the hard, scary stuff for you.

    docs.qnch.network has step by step instructions. You can do this, we believe in you.

  3. Log in and publish

    Use your dashboard to onboard onto the network. You're ready to upload and publish your work; no platform permissions or distributor headaches.

    The artist dashboard has everything you need to publish and monetize your music without subscriptions.

The dashboard

Artist controls

Everything below ships today and runs on your own server, behind your own login.

The Catalog page of the Station artist dashboard.
artist dashboard — catalog
The New Release page of the Station artist dashboard.
artist dashboard — new release
The Storefront page of the Station artist dashboard.
artist dashboard — storefront
The Fan Club page of the Station artist dashboard.
artist dashboard — fan club
The Treasury page of the Station artist dashboard.
artist dashboard — treasury
The Settings page of the Station artist dashboard.
artist dashboard — settings
03read the full the dashboard

Revenue split

Sovereign payments, minimally extractive

0% 100% station | you

Station is launching with zero rev share. You keep all of your income.

Nobody has built music distribution this way before, and taking a chance on something unproven should be worth more than showing up once it's safe. So the advantage is built in, not promised.

As Station grows, the rate for artists joining later can rise. Yours doesn't move — whatever your split was on the day you started is the split it keeps, permanently. The earliest artists hold the best terms anyone will ever have.

The protection isn't that we promise not to raise your rate. It's that we can't.
04read the full revenue split

FanSociety

Crowdfunding patronage for musicians and fans

Though accessible, subscriptions are not durable. We landed on a simple solution that runs on chain, which means a one time donation can also timestamp when a fan discovered an artist.

It's an onchain solution but not an artificial scarcity NFT drop that the mainstream saw right through. FanSociety uses a concept of generations. When a patron makes a donation, they get an on chain receipt that we call a 'FanPin'. FanPins are digital proof of when you discovered the next cool band. This form of social currency already exists in the minds of music fanatics, it just was never made this concrete, until now.

For you

artist
  • An additional source of income through crowdfunding while avoiding subscription fatigue.
  • Grant early releases, bonus tracks, or free streaming to any generation you choose — per album, or per track.
  • Integrated with Station on day one; easy to manage in your self hosted artist dashboard.
  • Identify fans based on when they join your community, with the flexibility to give back to them in meaningful ways.

For them

fan
  • Digital proof that they were an early fan, durable social currency.
  • Get special access granted by artists; digital products, physical products, and event tickets.
  • Support artists directly with a provable minimally extractive payments system.
  • Stronger tie to the artist, doesn't depend on success of a single business to be durable and long lasting.

The social contract between a fan and an artist already exists. FanSociety just records it somewhere neither party can edit later.

05read the full fansociety

Discovery

Bye-bye algorithms

The qnch listener app: a dark interface with Search, Library and Wallet in the header, the Station wordmark, and a card reading Artist Operated.
the listener app — no browse page, no charts

No recommendation engine. No browse page. No directory.

Streaming platforms didn't only take over hosting, distribution and payment. They took over discovery, and recommendations.

Station isn't aimed at replacing this model, but at breaking it apart and redistributing it. Reviewers, critics, DJs, blogs, record shops, magazines. There's little room for them if a platform does it all. Station doesn't compete with these essential parts of music culture.

Fans find artists two ways: they search your namespace, or they open a link you sent them.

artist page beta.qnch.network/artist/your-namespace
06read the full discovery

Artificial intelligence

The elephant in the room

Love it or hate it, AI music is upon us. Station has a simple solution.

Because Station lacks a recommendation engine you'll never be duped into consuming AI music unknowingly. A sovereign music streaming network means that anyone can pay to generate AI music and host it on a server they own. Anyone can pay to listen to AI music at their discretion. Users will only encounter AI music when they search for it. So rather than attempting to enforce an AI policy, Station lets the responsibility land on the consumer.

07read the full artificial intelligence

Start

the new way to DIY

one command
curl -sSL https://qnch.network/install.sh -o install.sh && sudo bash install.sh --network testnet

testnet live Free tokens from a faucet, worth nothing. Deploy contracts, take fake payments, make mistakes. Mainnet hasn't launched — we'll say so the moment it does.

Read the docs The full walkthrough — server, domain, wallet, first release. Hear it working The listener app, running on testnet. Nothing to install. Ask us anything Argue with the economics or just say hi. We’re in there.