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Show HN: Rappad - Write better lyrics
- jedanbik 13y agoI really like the Freestyle feature, but the Beat control and Shuffle options aren’t working for me in the latest Firefox 20.0 on OS X 10.6.8.
- overload119 13y agoHmm, it's just a standard Flash embed. I wonder if maybe you have the latest version of Flash?
- jedanbik 13y agoYou were right about my Flash being out of date. I upgraded, and now it kind of works. A video loads, but it only plays if I click on the link that takes me to Youtube in a new window or tab. Even if that’s a tiny bit inconvenient, it’s still neat that I can write one little rhyme about probabilistic estimators, click Freestyle 16 times, and then hear a song about buying whores from a store, going to war, poverty, prison time, heartbreak and exercise. All to the beat of “Hate it or Love it”, by The Game. Or maybe instead to the beat of “You Don’t Know My Name”, by Alicia Keys.
- amarbirchahal 13y agoWould love to have this build full raps that have a chorus and verses. For example - 16 bars and then a catchy hook. Really cool start, though.
- dsschnau 13y agoWelp you made exactly what I was trying to make. Way to go!
- overload119 13y agoIf you'd like to help, send me a note!
- SiliconAlley 13y agoI would love to help out with this. It's an area of deep personal interest for me. I've got homepage/contact links in my hn profile. I'll write in a bit.
- WiseWeasel 13y ago"Write lyrics better" would be a better tagline than "write better lyrics", which could be taken as an insult.
- overload119 13y agoI think your right! I will change it!
- yahelc 13y agoWhat are you using for syllable counting?
- overload119 13y agoA simple regex! That's why it's not perfect :(
- wahnfrieden 13y agoUse an NLP library.
- zem 13y agocheck out the cmu pronouncing dictionary [http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict] - it does both syllables and stresses.
- marcusestes 13y agoI disagree. "Write better lyrics" cuts right to the emotional need. I want to write better lyrics. "Write lyrics better," without further context, could refer to penmanship. It's a less impactful phrasing.
- WiseWeasel 13y ago"Write better lyrics" implies your lyrics are in need of improvement. I'll let you be the one to tell your favorite artist that they can write better lyrics with RapPad.
- bionsuba 13y agoHey, I saw you show this off at MHacks and I was deeply impressed with you then and to see that you have taken it even further is great. Good job and hopefully have a great product launch! Also, I have a suggestion. You are already using emails as ids, why not use Persona?
- overload119 13y agoEmails are easier to setup in devise. Would love to Persona, and other social logins, just a matter of time!
- zackbloom 13y agoThe "try hovering over the numbers on the side" bit is odd to me, if I'm going through the intro, I know what those numbers are. I ended up hovering over them expecting to get more details, and just got a label.
- scottoller 13y agoThis is awesome! The drake video on the landing page was confusing/pointless to me, and I agree with zackbloom's comment about hovering over the numbers on the side. Other than that, really great idea & execution.
- overload119 13y agoYeah, just a placeholder for now until I get a real video there. I agree about the syllables hover thing. Thanks for the feedback!
- clark-kent 13y agoYes I found the homepage confusing, and almost clicked away. I think this should be the homepage: http://rappad.co/editor http://rappad.co/editor. Just my opinion. I love the site. Nice work.
- alexgodin 13y agoThis is awesome! Why is Drake on the homepage?
- rkuykendall-com 13y agoYeah, I was halfway through the video waiting for some overlay of the actual service or... something.
- overload119 13y agoPlaceholder video :(
- chatmasta 13y agoAwesome! This is fun. Any plans to introduce rudimentary recording capabilities?
- overload119 13y agoYes! Debating on whether it should be video uploads or straight up in-page audio recording.
- habosa 13y agoIn page for sure. Will invite way more spontaneous recordings. Maybe try to mix in the background beat so the recordings sound like songs?
- Johnyma22 13y agoIntegrate Etherpad, give users the ability to access old revisions and collaborate on rhymes
- orangethirty 13y agoNow, that is fun. Good job. To all my homies commenting in hacker news I just brought a little rhyme that it helped me do Cause when I bust all around even PG looks and every hacker here says Go orange go. And as I type this I dont know what else to do so give me a mic and Ill show you how its done Its not about being the best or simply two plus two but being a *killa* when it comes to committing code. So check out my github and star a thing or two plus fork my repos but hey, no pycon stuff And as I finish up rhymes and downvotes creep I say hola to my peeps and go back to work. Peace.
- simba-hiiipower 13y agodope.
- DigitalSea 13y agoMC Orangethirty has a nice ring to it.
- orangethirty 13y agoYou may be onto something.
- smallegan 13y agoGreat job! I love this and I'd love to collaborate, I own rap.io and want to build something very similar but with more of a social twist. Hit me up if you are interested in talking. E-mail's in my profile.
- trent_91 13y agoI love this sort of thing. I remember playing with patternsketch.com with some friends. It's the future!
- gailees 13y agoI saw this hack at MHacks. Its amazing -- future of rap.
- PavlovsCat 13y agofuck rap, reclaim hip hop ^^
- fyrabanks 13y ago"fuck this rap shit, i listen to classical"
- sebcioz 13y agoCan I see a name of the track currently playing in the freestyle mode?
- overload119 13y agoNot yet. On the TODO list!
- endtime 13y agoFreestyle is the best part. You can generate an entire (gibberish) rap song from one line: What light through yonder window breaks? To be great, i'm giving it all it takes Lookin' at me, now they know my face Driving my car to a foreign place This is no trial, this a closed case I ain't looking in her eyes but her face Prps cover my eight’s, uhh, lemme switch my pace Pluck ya ace, take ya girl, fuck her face
- NewAccnt 13y agoLooks like it's taking lines from other songs that match a certain algorithm. There is already 2 other songs with the line "This is no trial, this a closed case" on rapgenious.com plus actual production songs on lyric databases with the same line.
- vowelless 13y agoOh man, I would love to see this integrated with http://www.rhymezone.com/ http://www.rhymezone.com/. Awesome stuff! Edit: just realized, double clicking on a word shows some possible rhyming words. It was a little unintuitive, but pretty cool nonetheless.
- khamoud 13y agoDid you build this at the M-Hacks Hackathon?
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- overload119 13y agoGlad to hear it! While the community is small I can take all feedback personally, so lemme know what you want.
- bennyg 13y agoHonestly, it's awesome man! The only thing I can think of is a "replay" button next to the instrumental, so when it's done you can start it over. I only figured out to do that by clicking in the yellow progress bar close to the beginning. I am gonna use the hell out of this though - sweet idea.
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- malcolmmcc 13y agoYeah man, add more syllables Then it'll be billable Send me an invoice and it'll be fillable With more rhymes available You'll need to make it scaleable, 'cause when a saas is failable it'll be hard to pitch it your users will ditch it instead of pitching in to help they'll be bitchingin' for help sucking all your time away from development yup, it's a crime, when you see where it hella went I got deliberate rhymes inside the lines I'm not illiterate, but words blow my mind I'm here killin' it, but I'm not just killin' time Because I'm willin' it: this creation is mine.
- overload119 13y agoGlad to hear it! While the community is small I can take all feedback personally, so lemme know what you want.
- rdl 13y agoThis is awesome. Y Combinator procrastinator, hacker news representer Running up in pretty colos constantly And Dame said he proud of my newfound honesty And don't bother me, high as shit from my broccoli
- orangethirty 13y agoI am challenging you to a rap-off.
- gailees 13y agoI feel like this is something Ben Horowitz at a16z would love haha. Also, definitely chat with the guys at Rapt.fm
- bennyg 13y agoQuickly before I get back to work: -------- Jazzy beats creep up in my seat, My back arches low as the words start to seep Straight out my mind, and down through the keys. Thoughts and feelings show, so slow with the release. Complementary to all the pain I hide inside, I'm literally getting paid to rhyme on my boss's time. Blasting words off of neuron connections, A convex complexion changes all direction. But that's what freestyles are for right? Fleeting moments of feeling, no reason for stage fright.
- radiusq 13y agoI see this as just a toy. No serious artist/rapper write lyrics like this or would even attempt to.
- voltagex_ 13y agoWhy? Is it really that much worse than a pad and pen?
- rhema 13y agoAnyone see tpoem? http://tpoem.com http://tpoem.com
- malcolmmcc 13y agoNeeds internal rhyme. Like http://www.b-rhymes.com/ http://www.b-rhymes.com/ Something so key for rap is rhyming more than just one syllable. http://rapgenius.com/posts/1669-The-rapper-s-flow-encyclopedia http://rapgenius.com/posts/1669-The-rapper-s-flow-encycloped...
- Mankhool 13y agoI think that should be, "Write better [Rap] lyrics".
- ajhit406 13y agoMonzy would crush everyone on this thread.
- endian 13y agoI've got people in the Delaware D.O.C. I send 'em 89 bucks, they send me equity! Collaborate or compete, 'til HN's header goes sable I'll put a cap in your ass or put your ass in a cap table.
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- dylanz 13y agoThe first instrumental that it played for me was "Shook Ones Pt. 2 Instrumental" by Mobb Deep, off of their Infamous album. That's in my personal top 10 list of favorite hip hop albums, and was super excited that this site somehow knew that ;) On a side note, this is really clever. I love being able to quickly pull a random instrumental. The syllable counts are on point too, and it's nice that it makes you mix up the tempo of your flow. Great job! - edit: The landing page is great that it has a huge "Try it" button, but I actually went back to watch the video on the homepage thinking it would show me some examples, but it was some dude rapping instead. He's good, but not really my cup of tea at all. If I didn't click the "Try it" link and only clicked on the video, I would have most likely bounced.
- overload119 13y agoYeah, my bad. It's been mentioned before, but the landing page video is completely irrelevant, it's really just a placeholder. I don't know what other video to put there, maybe one day I can pay someone to make a tutorial vid.
- rooshdi 13y agoRap on your app.
- sgdesign 13y agoThis is awesome! Also confirms that just because I've been listening to hip-hop for the last 15 years, doesn't mean I can rap…
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