Roadie: Your AI Artist Manager 4+

Hi there, I’m writing this review in the hopes that SOMEONE will help me make sense of this seemingly useless app. Please. Help. I’ve spent an entire work day trying to get all the accounts linked up from Instagram to Facebook THEN get all the permissions granted and this is where I am just in awe of the utter ridiculousness of the situation. Technology is supposed to make things easier, not have the user spend hours going back and forth between Google and chat GPT trying to find out where facebook/meta/instagram have buried the millions of options in their latest idiotic layout update. The fact that someone will probably need to give me a 10 step process for this one aspect of setting this app up is a testament to how disjointed and inefficient this all is. PLEASE make this more streamline and for the amount that is charged for this app, the user should DEFINITELY not have to waste a day figuring it out, which at minimum wage would be a ball park figure of $100 in the U.S.

Thank you for the useful and thoughtful review, this is exactly the type of feedback that helps us understand how to make Roadie better and more seamless to use on a daily basis.

You might have encountered this before in other tools, but getting access and permissions for your own personal data is not as easy as it should be, especially when dealing with third-party companies whose own data practices are not transparent.

We want to empower indie creators to fully own their data and are constantly looking at ways to make the Roadie set-up process easier and clearer since we believe artists should have an easy way of getting, viewing and analyzing their own data.

As other reviews have mentioned, this is an app with so much potential, but at the moment falls short. It is basically chat GPT with access to your social/ streaming stats. My streaming stats never loaded into the app after 2 weeks sadly, but my social stats did. It was nice to see what my top posts were, but it gives very little detail and id like to see more than the top 3. It also doesn’t seems to refresh the stats often, so I’d like a manual “refresh” button that pulls the latest numbers. The content generator is somewhat useful, more so for hashtags that are trending. I had one really engaging post about playing bongos at a renaissance fair, and the AI wanted to make all my posts and entire music personality about how great jamming at ren fairs is. The AI captions besides the hashtags are very non human sounding and I don’t like them. The similar artists page is also pretty useless, showed only 3 posts with very little context and genuinely meant nothing to me. In closing, I’d love to see this app get cooked for another 6 months with more reliability, and a few better features before I would drop money on it, or consider it my “digital manager”.

Thank you for your detailed review and for sharing your experience with Roadie! We’re glad to hear that you see the app’s potential, and we truly appreciate your insights regarding the challenges you've encountered.

We’re constantly working to enhance reliability and bring more depth to our features. We’re actively working on updates to make the app feel more intuitive and adaptable.

If you’d be open to it, feel free to reach out to us at roadie@indieflow.me with any additional thoughts – we’d love to keep you in the loop as we improve! Thanks again for taking the time to share this; it helps us make Roadie better.

I couldn’t get it to connect to Instagram via FB in browser despite many attempts

Their support team told me they would offer a refund in the first line of their email

so I said yes because my wife is having a major surgery in a few days and I don’t have the time to follow the long guide (which simply details what I had already done multiple times to set up) or set up a Zoom call with them, as I suggested.)

When I asked for the already promised refund, they denied it

In any case, to the meat and potatoes of the tool - if you already have ChatGPT in some form I cannot see anything different than really training your own GPT and telling it facts about your goals as a music artist and details about your different social accounts

The tool is extremely immature

Don’t fall for the ads which trick you into paying them any money

Do the trial first and see for yourself

We believe you were refunded all payment this despite your own admission you were also given guides and had the option of a support video call which you did not take us on, correct?

Thank you for your feedback for the tool, we continue to work on it and make it better and more tailored around indie musician's specific needs and data.