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Show HN: A social platform with music in focus. Download the app

46 points by skygater 6y ago

tomcooks 6y ago
Yeah well
abhinav22 6y ago
How did this get to first page? Is it a YC company or did they game the system?
- zed88 6y ago
  Hmm...how exactly can someone do that? Am curious.
  - layoutIfNeeded 6y ago
    https://upvotes.club/buy/hacker-news-upvote/ https://upvotes.club/buy/hacker-news-upvote/
    - oytis 6y ago
      > We upvote with very strong accounts Would be pretty easy to buy a few and see what these accounts are.
- richrichardsson 6y ago
  New posts with a few upvotes seem to appear on the front page, for how long is a different question.
- skygater 6y ago
  What hahha, and it is just my second post! I think it may have to be with Show HN: tag
  - abhinav22 6y ago
    Congrats :)
TooCreative 6y ago
I am a total music nut. So I would certainly try it if it had a web interface. For me, the barrier to install a native app on my phone is pretty high. Looking at the permissions this app wants makes me feel even less comfortable. Access to my camera, my mic, my contacts, my identity, the data on my sd... One of my favorite ways to discover music is Gnoosic (https://www.gnoosic.com https://www.gnoosic.com) where I don't have to install anything and get results right away. I found some of my all time favorite bands this way. Any other tips by the HN crowd on how to expand ones musical horizon?
- sefrost 6y ago
  I made a micro social media site during the first UK lockdown which allows people to share their favourite track each week. I thought it could be a cool way to get music recommendations from people you know. The main concept is that by limiting shares to once a week, no one person could dominate the feed. It's called Earworms: https://earworms.club https://earworms.club You can search by genre tag as well: https://earworms.club/genres/alternative_hip_hop https://earworms.club/genres/alternative_hip_hop
  - coffeedoughnuts 6y ago
    That looks very appealing - I'm an Apple Music subscriber, so having the option to play in Apple Music alongside Spotify would be handy - is the project Open Source?
    - sefrost 6y ago
      Thanks! I haven't open sourced it yet but I was planning on it. (I'll need to change some API keys first - side project!) You're not the first, or even the second, to suggest adding Apple Music so it's definitely something I want to include.
- ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
  The first thing it suggested was an artist I’ve never heard of, who I’m now completely in love with. Craziest part is the artist isn’t actually that similar to the 3 suggestions I gave it, different genre and everything. Spotify and Apple Music (my two main sources of music) both constant suggest stuff to me I have absolutely zero interest in, almost to the point where it seems like a parody, yet this site just nailed it first go (and subsequent suggestions were really good too).
mmackh 6y ago
How are you able to use Spotify playback without having to run the main app in the background - the official SDK always talks about being a remote
- prithvi_san 6y ago
  Spotify recently introduced a streaming SDK for Premium users which has no dependency on the app. You should totally check out this cool social music sharing app called humit. Head here to know more: https://www.humit.app https://www.humit.app
  - ShamelessC 6y ago
    please stop spamming the comments section here
Darmody 6y ago
So like a new Myspace but without being able to access it from the browser. Please, don't use apps for everything. And if you do, don't forget about the universal platform we all have AKA the web.
- skygater 6y ago
  Thanks for the comment and great input. Web maybe soon but this is our current focus.
  - jitix 6y ago
    I’m curious why? Unless your code is doing something which the browser sandbox can’t handle (what could that be?), I’d hypothesize that your app is just another data harvesting app. I know the user data market having worked in adtech for a while (morally the worst part of my career)
    - skygater 6y ago
      We started with mobile development and just continue building, were't thinking about the web so much. Also we are currently a small team. Web app will definitely be awesome and possible in future. Follow us for more :)
newbie578 6y ago
Hey man, I downloaded and tried the app, seems fun. I got some feedback for you if you want it :) When creating a new public session, I added a Spotify playlist, the issue is when I want to change tracks.I cannot change them? I can only change the queue and need to wait for my song to come automatically? Also scrolling while dragging a song in the queue is broken FYI. And I didn't notice if there is a shuffle play? And last, mute button is == pause button? Kind of a weird UX. But all in all, the app seems neat, keep going!
- skygater 6y ago
  Thanks for the awesome feedback! We are improving this helped a lot
  - flave 6y ago
    I want this app so bad but it's so broken XD. Spent 30 minutes putting together a track list and it just dumped the whole thing.
kall 6y ago
Looks cool, but lack of apple music support is a killer for me. I feel like spotify is not the most friendly platform for hardcore music people.
- prithvi_san 6y ago
  We hear you! At humit, we are integrating Spotify and Apple Music to provide a platform agnostic experience. Head here for details: https://www.humit.app https://www.humit.app
validuser 6y ago
"Download the app"? No.
zwog 6y ago
The frontpage fails to inform me what this app acutally does. As far I can tell this is an app that lets be listen to a synchronized spotify session and lets me chat with people in this session? Who or what are my "idols"? In which way am I able to interact with them? I'd like less dancing people, less buzzwords, less flashy animations but more information on page. And why does the app need all those permissions?
- prithvi_san 6y ago
  Hey, you should totally check out this cool social music sharing app called humit. Head here for details: https://www.humit.app https://www.humit.app
  - timothyduong 6y ago
    Poor effort spam
- timothyduong 6y ago
  The fact that there is a reference to 'idols' I think the target market is tweens.
deleted 6y ago
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tech_sav16 6y ago
Sleek design and nice way of listening and discover music... As a playlist curator, this app is definitely a good space for me to show off some great tunes for people.
JD557 6y ago
I haven't installed the app for the reasons other users have pointed out here. I would have loved to see a web app, though. Nevertheless, one of the things I miss from the old MySpace that seems to be missing from other sites is being able to search bands based on a location. Yes, Bandcamp allows you to filter by location, but it seems to be restricted to a small set of large cities. What I really want is a way for me to find out "what are the new bands from my hometown?" or "how's the punk scene in this neighborhood city?".
Dirlewanger 6y ago
>Discover music from people. Not algorithms. Unsolicited opinion: Ok, fine, but music discovery algorithms are one of the coolest things to come out of the Internet. When Pandora first launched, it was mind-blowing. Now it's commonplace. I've found so many good artists on YouTube, Bandcamp, and the like (don't use Spotify). I don't know how they work, but I'm pretty sure they also take user engagement into account, so I wonder if this is really doing anything novel or just marketing.
- s3lect 6y ago
  Mix-tapes have been around forever, they just did not materialize very well in the web. I have created a similar software called Audius (audius.rockdapus.org) 3 years ago for the same reason. If you listen to a wide variety of music, algorithms only get you so far, in the end you need random inspiration from your friends and strangers. The last 3 years I have discovered tons of new music through algorithms AND my social music networks. I have build up a music group with my friends and joined several other music groups and I can assure you it's much more than marketing. To the user engagement it's the same as in all other (social) networks you have a quote of 1 out of 10 people (if you are lucky) that post content and only a critical mass of engaged people will keep a community alive. An interesting read on this topic is also https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most_of_what_you_read_on_the_internet_is_written/ https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most...
Rastonbury 6y ago
There's definitely a niche for this, I dislike Spotify's algorithmic "shuffle" I've always dreamed of a music/social messaging app where sharing playlists and songs is natural and its possible to listen to music within app. It'd be pretty niche/underground as the big streaming players would likely control the commercial rights of popular songs, this would be more like soundcloud where individuals/smaller artistes would upload and connect with fans.
- prithvi_san 6y ago
  Hey, you should totally check out this cool social music sharing app called humit. Head here for details: https://www.humit.app https://www.humit.app
flave 6y ago
Great idea but the Android App is crazy buggy on my device (Pixel 3). Search for tracks doesn't work as I host a session. It's crashed twice in 30 mins. Shame cos it seems like a great idea.
timothyduong 6y ago
Not my cup of tea but just brainstorming of having a mixture of Last.FM with listening to 'someone's' recent playlist would be cool. E.g. 'I am 60% similar to you in taste, I can now listen to the last 24 hours of what you've "publicly aired"' Does Last.fm premium do that? I'm yet to find a music platform that you can rate music, listen, share and socialise effectively. Last.fm is too focused on scrobbling.

46 points by skygater 6y ago

tomcooks 6y ago

Yeah well

abhinav22 6y ago

How did this get to first page? Is it a YC company or did they game the system?

zed88 6y ago
Hmm...how exactly can someone do that? Am curious.
- layoutIfNeeded 6y ago
  https://upvotes.club/buy/hacker-news-upvote/ https://upvotes.club/buy/hacker-news-upvote/
  - oytis 6y ago
    > We upvote with very strong accounts Would be pretty easy to buy a few and see what these accounts are.
richrichardsson 6y ago
New posts with a few upvotes seem to appear on the front page, for how long is a different question.
skygater 6y ago
What hahha, and it is just my second post! I think it may have to be with Show HN: tag
- abhinav22 6y ago
  Congrats :)

TooCreative 6y ago

I am a total music nut. So I would certainly try it if it had a web interface. For me, the barrier to install a native app on my phone is pretty high. Looking at the permissions this app wants makes me feel even less comfortable. Access to my camera, my mic, my contacts, my identity, the data on my sd... One of my favorite ways to discover music is Gnoosic (https://www.gnoosic.com https://www.gnoosic.com) where I don't have to install anything and get results right away. I found some of my all time favorite bands this way. Any other tips by the HN crowd on how to expand ones musical horizon?

sefrost 6y ago
I made a micro social media site during the first UK lockdown which allows people to share their favourite track each week. I thought it could be a cool way to get music recommendations from people you know. The main concept is that by limiting shares to once a week, no one person could dominate the feed. It's called Earworms: https://earworms.club https://earworms.club You can search by genre tag as well: https://earworms.club/genres/alternative_hip_hop https://earworms.club/genres/alternative_hip_hop
- coffeedoughnuts 6y ago
  That looks very appealing - I'm an Apple Music subscriber, so having the option to play in Apple Music alongside Spotify would be handy - is the project Open Source?
  - sefrost 6y ago
    Thanks! I haven't open sourced it yet but I was planning on it. (I'll need to change some API keys first - side project!) You're not the first, or even the second, to suggest adding Apple Music so it's definitely something I want to include.
ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
The first thing it suggested was an artist I’ve never heard of, who I’m now completely in love with. Craziest part is the artist isn’t actually that similar to the 3 suggestions I gave it, different genre and everything. Spotify and Apple Music (my two main sources of music) both constant suggest stuff to me I have absolutely zero interest in, almost to the point where it seems like a parody, yet this site just nailed it first go (and subsequent suggestions were really good too).

mmackh 6y ago

How are you able to use Spotify playback without having to run the main app in the background - the official SDK always talks about being a remote

prithvi_san 6y ago
Spotify recently introduced a streaming SDK for Premium users which has no dependency on the app. You should totally check out this cool social music sharing app called humit. Head here to know more: https://www.humit.app https://www.humit.app
- ShamelessC 6y ago
  please stop spamming the comments section here

Darmody 6y ago

So like a new Myspace but without being able to access it from the browser. Please, don't use apps for everything. And if you do, don't forget about the universal platform we all have AKA the web.

skygater 6y ago
Thanks for the comment and great input. Web maybe soon but this is our current focus.
- jitix 6y ago
  I’m curious why? Unless your code is doing something which the browser sandbox can’t handle (what could that be?), I’d hypothesize that your app is just another data harvesting app. I know the user data market having worked in adtech for a while (morally the worst part of my career)
  - skygater 6y ago
    We started with mobile development and just continue building, were't thinking about the web so much. Also we are currently a small team. Web app will definitely be awesome and possible in future. Follow us for more :)

newbie578 6y ago

Hey man, I downloaded and tried the app, seems fun. I got some feedback for you if you want it :) When creating a new public session, I added a Spotify playlist, the issue is when I want to change tracks.I cannot change them? I can only change the queue and need to wait for my song to come automatically? Also scrolling while dragging a song in the queue is broken FYI. And I didn't notice if there is a shuffle play? And last, mute button is == pause button? Kind of a weird UX. But all in all, the app seems neat, keep going!

skygater 6y ago
Thanks for the awesome feedback! We are improving this helped a lot
- flave 6y ago
  I want this app so bad but it's so broken XD. Spent 30 minutes putting together a track list and it just dumped the whole thing.

kall 6y ago

Looks cool, but lack of apple music support is a killer for me. I feel like spotify is not the most friendly platform for hardcore music people.

prithvi_san 6y ago
We hear you! At humit, we are integrating Spotify and Apple Music to provide a platform agnostic experience. Head here for details: https://www.humit.app https://www.humit.app

validuser 6y ago

"Download the app"? No.

zwog 6y ago

The frontpage fails to inform me what this app acutally does. As far I can tell this is an app that lets be listen to a synchronized spotify session and lets me chat with people in this session? Who or what are my "idols"? In which way am I able to interact with them? I'd like less dancing people, less buzzwords, less flashy animations but more information on page. And why does the app need all those permissions?

prithvi_san 6y ago
Hey, you should totally check out this cool social music sharing app called humit. Head here for details: https://www.humit.app https://www.humit.app
- timothyduong 6y ago
  Poor effort spam
timothyduong 6y ago
The fact that there is a reference to 'idols' I think the target market is tweens.

deleted 6y ago

[deleted]

tech_sav16 6y ago

Sleek design and nice way of listening and discover music... As a playlist curator, this app is definitely a good space for me to show off some great tunes for people.

JD557 6y ago

I haven't installed the app for the reasons other users have pointed out here. I would have loved to see a web app, though. Nevertheless, one of the things I miss from the old MySpace that seems to be missing from other sites is being able to search bands based on a location. Yes, Bandcamp allows you to filter by location, but it seems to be restricted to a small set of large cities. What I really want is a way for me to find out "what are the new bands from my hometown?" or "how's the punk scene in this neighborhood city?".

Dirlewanger 6y ago

>Discover music from people. Not algorithms. Unsolicited opinion: Ok, fine, but music discovery algorithms are one of the coolest things to come out of the Internet. When Pandora first launched, it was mind-blowing. Now it's commonplace. I've found so many good artists on YouTube, Bandcamp, and the like (don't use Spotify). I don't know how they work, but I'm pretty sure they also take user engagement into account, so I wonder if this is really doing anything novel or just marketing.

s3lect 6y ago
Mix-tapes have been around forever, they just did not materialize very well in the web. I have created a similar software called Audius (audius.rockdapus.org) 3 years ago for the same reason. If you listen to a wide variety of music, algorithms only get you so far, in the end you need random inspiration from your friends and strangers. The last 3 years I have discovered tons of new music through algorithms AND my social music networks. I have build up a music group with my friends and joined several other music groups and I can assure you it's much more than marketing. To the user engagement it's the same as in all other (social) networks you have a quote of 1 out of 10 people (if you are lucky) that post content and only a critical mass of engaged people will keep a community alive. An interesting read on this topic is also https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most_of_what_you_read_on_the_internet_is_written/ https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most...

Rastonbury 6y ago

There's definitely a niche for this, I dislike Spotify's algorithmic "shuffle" I've always dreamed of a music/social messaging app where sharing playlists and songs is natural and its possible to listen to music within app. It'd be pretty niche/underground as the big streaming players would likely control the commercial rights of popular songs, this would be more like soundcloud where individuals/smaller artistes would upload and connect with fans.

prithvi_san 6y ago
Hey, you should totally check out this cool social music sharing app called humit. Head here for details: https://www.humit.app https://www.humit.app

flave 6y ago

Great idea but the Android App is crazy buggy on my device (Pixel 3). Search for tracks doesn't work as I host a session. It's crashed twice in 30 mins. Shame cos it seems like a great idea.

timothyduong 6y ago

Not my cup of tea but just brainstorming of having a mixture of Last.FM with listening to 'someone's' recent playlist would be cool. E.g. 'I am 60% similar to you in taste, I can now listen to the last 24 hours of what you've "publicly aired"' Does Last.fm premium do that? I'm yet to find a music platform that you can rate music, listen, share and socialise effectively. Last.fm is too focused on scrobbling.