LooksRare launched unaudited and without a public GitHub repo. This is frightening and irresponsible and I hope they change course. Until then, use at your own risk.
Yet there’s a fundamental tension between drop culture and digital music itself. As I've written about in the past, artificial scarcity could not be more antithetical to how the streaming economy works today, because we expect digital music to be as close to free and ubiquitous as possible — i.e. the opposite of scarce.
The good stuff is always lonely in the beginning. Nothing meaningful will get made if its potential makers all wimp out too soon, because they get scared by the sparse crowd, the empty room.
When you pursue a single goal in exclusion of everything else, you become blind to opportunities. This limits your upside potential while positioning you to be harmed by any event