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Congrats on completing a side project to a point you can show it. Just curious, what did you decide to make this project instead of using one of the numerous ex
by bastijn 9y ago
Congrats on completing a side project to a point you can show it. Just curious, what did you decide to make this project instead of using one of the numerous existing options?
It looks beautiful from the landing page!
- joshwcomeau 9y agoYeah, so I spent 2-3 days trying Trakt, which seems like the market leader. I kinda hated it. It's SO feature-packed that it's overwhelming. I don't need every app I use to be a mini-social-network. One of my favourite things is to build a competitor that does _less_. I built http://panther.audio http://panther.audio, which is essentially a pretty UI for Spotify's "related artists" feature. It does way less than Spotify, but its narrow focus means I can create a great experience for that single function. The other thing is, I just like building stuff :) truthfully, Trakt is probably better for most folks; it just does way more. For me, though, I love that I can spend <10 seconds (page-load time included!) on Tello, instead of waddling through a bunch of sub-menus and pages to find what I need.
- stefantheard 9y agoI felt the same way about Trakt and also tried another site that has 200k active users called sharetv and used it for a while out of necessity. The lean feature-clean approach is better I agree.