• We aim to establish a platform where casual creators, artists, labels and music professionals from around the planet can host, share and receive music in the smartest and most efficient way imaginable.
• We provide the foundation for people to upload, access and comment on music without starting from scratch or patching together other, music ignorant, existing services.
• We focus on robustness and scalability with an extended goal to not only meet music professionals' needs, but inspire and aid developers, hackers and music lovers.
• We develop using simple, proven, open standards and have built a RESTful API including oAuth, XML, JSON - available for all who want to engage. With the API you can access the entire SoundCloud service from your favorite tools and languages. We have tried to make it as simple as possible while still keeping things secure and powerful.
• We thrive on open dialogue. The API is part of the foundation, and if that foundation doesn't meet your needs, we will consider all feedback and suggestions.
• We give credit where due. All apps and hacks that you develop will be acknowledged by us and presented in the SoundCloud developer area. If you need support we promise to do our best to help you out.
• We believe that audio is a key part of the web.
• We recognize that only through your apps and hacks, can SoundCloud fully realize its potential as the audio platform.

Let’s build the best tools for audio on the web together!

• Hannes Tydén, API Guru
• Sean Treadway, Chief Engineer
• Johannes Wagener, Hacker
• Johan Uhle, API Developer
• Alexander Ljung, Founder
• Eric Wahlforss, Founder