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Show HN: Launched my first app where people hum songs for others to guess
- barbs 9y agoCool idea, I used to play this when I was a child. I'm unable to download it right now, but my initial concerns are: - How do you stop people from cheating by singing the words, or otherwise just saying the name of the song? Or, depending on the scoring system, could you not just submit silence? - How do you deal with people screaming profanity or disturbing audio clips?
- stevenwoo 9y agoThis is actually a minigame that exists within one of the four card types for the board game Cranium, but a nice mobile implementation for playing with strangers.
- arthurdenture 9y agoIt's also being kickstarted as a standalone card game: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1559002049/earworm-become-a-music-legend-in-this-rockin-party/description https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1559002049/earworm-beco...
- highwind 9y agoYou could ask people to flag the ones that are not humming and if a user is flagged multiple times you ban that user.
- depomoty 9y agoI built a report function. Not sure what more I can do to stop that. So far so good :)
- alphydan 9y ago> just submit silence 433 by John Cage?
- michaericalribo 9y agoCareful,I think that's under copyright
- rdruxn 9y agoAh yes! It's like shazam for a song you can't get out of your head!
- depomoty 9y agoThat;s how I came up with the idea!
- udfalkso 9y agoSeems like you'd build up a great dataset for training an automated hum -> song classifier if this gains traction.
- confounded 9y agoShazam for humming. It could be huge!
- kamac 9y agoThis already exists [1], although I'm not sure how accurate it is. [1]: https://www.midomi.com/ https://www.midomi.com/
- derwiki 9y agoCame here to look for this. IIRC Midomi launched as an app for feature phones? (Razr-era)
- smnscu 9y agoUsed that maybe 50+ times, it NEVER gave me anything remotely accurate.
- croon 9y agoSame here. I'm sure it would work if I already knew the song I'm humming, and could sing the lyrics, but that would defeat the purpose of the service. I have great melody memory, terrible title and lyrics memory, and good pitch, and it has never helped me the many times I've tried to figure out what song I got in my head.
- jakubp 9y agoMidomi is fantastic. We made a game out of it: you'd pick a song a try to sing it to Midomi (not hum). If it guesses what you are singing, you score. Note this is for amateurs and for drinking parties :) it doesnt have a lot in the catalogue, but it has enough. Super fun :)
- charles_ghost 9y agoIt's a fun app to download... it could become huge.. great idea anyways. Good luck !
- depomoty 9y agoHopefully, it will get there, thanks!
- korbonits 9y agoIs whistling allowed? :)
- depomoty 9y agoThat can work...as long as there are no words :)
- toastermoster 9y agoScorpions - Winds of Change is the first thing that came to my mind when you mentioned whistling.
- nicoboo 9y agoAwesome, we all had this idea but here, as an app, it's just great thoughts put in action ^^
- depomoty 9y agoNow time to make sure the implementation suits the needs of the community :D
- foxfired 9y agoThis pretty awesome. On an unrelated note: Even though I type the exact name of the app, it is hard to find it on Google play. I have to type almost all the name and description to find it. The play store is so saturated.
- folli 9y agoAfter publishing a new app, it usually takes a couple of days to rise in Google Play search results. But I agree about the saturation.
- TheMoutch 9y agoLooks like we are on the same field ;) I'm the CEO of https://www.watzatsong.com/en https://www.watzatsong.com/en our mobile app is coming very soon.
- depomoty 9y agohah, that's cool. I was googling to see if there's anyone doing this and couldn't find anything. Good to see there is need for this market. Maybe we can do some sort of collaboration in the future. Keep in touch!
- aczerepinski 9y agoWhen I was studying jazz we’d play a game where somebody would improvise over the chord changes to a song and you’d have to guess what song it was. That could be an in app purchase for this.
- brooklyn_ashey 9y agoonly if they outline chord tones in their solo. (ha) They should get points off for taking too many choruses or for doing Parker transcriptions. wink
- chandrew 9y agoCan't login or register
- depomoty 9y agoThere was an issue on my server which is now solved. Sorry for that
- HenryBemis 9y agoI went through all the comments. Just wanted to say thank you for being here to reply to all questions/comments opened minded on the feedback and responding with courtesy. It is always nice to see a fellow dev being so engaged and listening.
- depomoty 9y agoIt's my pleasure to do that. This feels great for me to finally launch something of my own and get so much great feedback from the community. I'm currently at work, but can't wait to get home hack a bit more on the app!
- m0dest 9y agoIt seems like a poor branding decision to name the app after the rather awkward domain name ("Hummi.nz"). As a mobile-first app, you aren't constrained by domain names, so you have better options.
- steamer25 9y agoI can't register with my email. "There was an error with your request. Please try again."
- d3sandoval 9y agoSame.
- depomoty 9y agoShould be up and running now, sorry for that
- depomoty 9y agoSorry for that, I was sleeping while my server was throwing errors It works perfectly now
- Dowwie 9y agoHave you seen the married with children episode when Al is driven crazy by a song he can't name and poorly hums it? It's uncomfortable for me to think how this is showing my age.
- ytsejammer 9y ago“Go with him” I feel your pain. :-)
- henearkr 9y agoMy feedback: you definitely need to add tags. Because I'm quite good at, say, classic or jazz, but I suck at other styles. And I don't want to listen uselessly to 90% hummings from styles I don't know before starting to become helpful... Excellent idea, though!
- depomoty 9y agoGood idea! I just have to be careful with implementing something that will make it harder for people to just record a hum and send it away. But I agree that tags will make everything easier when there are more people on board.
- Double_a_92 9y agoMake it optional then. If it's not tagged it won't show up for people that filter but for anybody else it will.
- yohann305 9y agoWhat’s your monetization strategy
- rhacker 9y agoI have to admit, if I was choosing a new car to buy I would want the one where if I start humming it just starts playing the real song.... (with an option to easily disable of course)
- depomoty 9y agoI will leave it completely free for now and later on I will probably integrate ads with an option to buy the app to remove them.
- yohann305 9y agoouch, we're not in 2012, the number of people that pay to remove ads won't turn your app to profit. You might rethink your strategy. Hope you've got another stream of revenue, honestly
- gschier 9y agoI suggest adding a Google login option as well since it's an android app. I don't have FB and don't want to type email/password.
- djangowithme 9y agoI #deletefacebook'd earlier in the week. A google login option would be appreciated.
- depomoty 9y agoGoogle and Twitter are on the next release :)
- ubear 9y agoCool idea! First step to service that searches track names by humming, right? :)
- pvinis 9y agoAny plans for an iOS version?
- depomoty 9y agoThe iOS version is all tested and working. I'm currently just waiting for my salary to kick-in to get the "affordable" developer license.
- pingiun 9y agoI would greatly suggest letting the user try the app without making an account. I'm not sure if the app is something I like, so when the first screen I get is a login screen the odds are high that you'll lose me. Other games often have a guest account for this with some random name, which they can then upgrade to a real profile by signing up.
- depomoty 9y agoFor people that are interested in how I developed the app: https://medium.com/@razvanilin/challenged-myself-to-build-and-launch-an-app-in-a-week-cc6b44731a49 https://medium.com/@razvanilin/challenged-myself-to-build-an...
- xadoc 9y agoRead the blogpost. What do you use and recommend to write React Native? Nuclide, VS Code, Vim, Atom, Intellij?
- TomMarius 9y agoI'd recommend VS Code simply because of its great performance compared to other options (I never used Vim because of other reasons so that might be better for you) and a lot of good extensions.
- depomoty 9y agoI use Atom, so I definitely recommend that. You can install all sorts of plugins to help you out with different things. For example you can install an Eslint extension that will show you all the errors depending on your eslint configuration. I'm sure others have similar support, but haven't really used them.
- nso95 9y agoWhat do you do if a user slightly mistypes the correct song title?
- nso95 9y agoAny timeline for iOS port?
- depomoty 9y agoIt will be very soon. The app is already tested on iOS, I just need the time to deal with all the Apple licenses and make a build for it. Before I launch on iOS I want to make sure the Android version is working as intended so I don't bring something broken over to iOS. You can subscribe for the news at http://hummi.nz http://hummi.nz and get notified when I launch it. (just click the iPhone button and enter your email there)
- nso95 9y agoCool
- pknerd 9y agoInteresting idea. Only if youtube add the feature of getting a humming as input and show the video of that thing.
- LoSboccacc 9y agohow did you solve the problem with people trust? things like purposefully humming the wrong tune tune for the song title?
- brooklyn_ashey 9y agoHey, I know! Blockchain, right?
- depomoty 9y agoThe way it works is that you have to hum a song and people will have to guess it. It's up to you to accept guesses by other people
- snrji 9y agoExcellent idea and implementation, not so god naming. Might I suggest a name (.com not taken)?
- depomoty 9y agoAppreciate the feedback! I will take this back to the board soon and see how I can improve it. I already bought the .com domain just in case