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Show HN: The Rap Test
- ljd 12y agoIt's not loading and console is spitting this out: FIREBASE WARNING: Specified Firebase has reached its Peak Connections limit. If you are the Firebase owner, consider upgrading. (https://raptestprod.firebaseio.com https://raptestprod.firebaseio.com) EDIT: Fixed
- 650REDHAIR 12y agoHooray hard limits! Was that hard limit that you had to change or did it scale for you automatically?
- nessup 12y agoJust fixed it :)
- yoshko 12y agoThis?! http://www.businessinsider.com/21-year-old-college-dropout-raptest-2014-6 http://www.businessinsider.com/21-year-old-college-dropout-r...
- clint 12y agoDoesn't seem to do anything except show text on the screen ("Drake Test") What is it supposed to do?
- sehr 12y agoIt plays snippets of certain artists' tracks, and you have to guess which song they are.
- mathgeek 12y agoReally needs a NSFW warning.
- callum85 12y agoWhat is NSFW about it?
- sneak 12y agoGet a better job that treats you like an adult.
- PhasmaFelis 12y agoIt's nice that your mommy and daddy are willing to support you, but some people have bills to pay and don't have the luxury of turning down work.
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- broolstoryco 12y agoFor me this page freezes Firefox (FF 30 Win 7) and bloats its memory usage by about 300mb. What it is doing on the top of the frontpage is beyond me.
- 650REDHAIR 12y agoI'm using a 4 year old MBP with 50 tabs open and it runs just fine on Chrome. It's a neat idea and I'm looking forward to this taking off.
- valarauca1 12y agoFF30 Win7 here (Core i3 4GB of ram). No issue what so ever, 15 other tabs open.
- geori 12y agoI had a good time with it. Got #8 on Kanye. Whoever is higher up on the list is clicking incredibly fast.
- mankyd 12y agoSmall bug: pressing the back button does not stop the music.
- acallaghan 12y agoIt's honourable not having affiliate links, but I'd add them in if this were my project. Most people don't care or even know what one is and it'd allow you a bit of beer money from the project and cover the costs of the servers. Most people on the site would be happy enough to not pay and have no adverts, affiliate links are a very unobtrusive way of making money from a project like this. I have a project with affiliate links, and the passive infrequent income I receive from it softly persuades me to do more work on it. It's up to you though obviously!
- citricsquid 12y agoThe lack of affiliate links has nothing to do with honour, he's doing it to try and avoid having to take down the music used: http://theraptest.com/copyright.html http://theraptest.com/copyright.html
- draker 12y agoMy thought was that he may be able to use the iTunes 30 second previews but after looking into it further I think this would qualify as "the main focus [..] of a web experience". > 5. Song previews can only be used to promote the track. They cannot be used for entertainment independent of that purpose, or as the main focus of an App or web experience. http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/blog/song-previews.html http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/blog/song-p...
- swineflu 12y agoVery funny and well done. Reminds me of http://binb.nodejitsu.com http://binb.nodejitsu.com
- dewey 12y agoIf you are wondering why the music isn't playing, disable/pause ad-block and it'll work. At least that did the trick for me.
- BlackJack 12y agoYou should include some basic instructions on the home page because it took me a while to figure out what this exactly did. I went to the Eminem page and thought I had to shade in the Relapse album cover and didn't realize I had to click haha. Really fun website though. I'm having a blast and discovering cool songs.
- swang 12y ago1. Can't stop music after round. 2. Got two selections of "Run This Town" for the hovtest Really cool format though.
- dangerb 12y agoI also encountered #2 and the first "Run This Town" selected wasn't accepted as correct. The next song was still "Run This Town", but this time with only one option presented and accepted as correct.
- tcwatrous 12y agoIt would be nice to see the individual test leaderboards.
- joshstrange 12y agoYeah, it tells me I'm #2 on the Eminem board but I can't seem to find a link to it
- codeulike 12y agoWas hoping this was like "The Turing Test", but as a Rap Battle.
- hxw 12y agoThis is pretty cool! :)
- niix 12y agoCool concept, turned me on to some songs I've never heard before.
- sbilstein 12y agoOh jeez this is so distracting and fun, I need to do some work today. Great job!
- thornofmight 12y agoVery nice! It'd be cool if this could be turned into a type of flashcard, quiz site where users could upload some sort of config file with questions, answers, images, video and then test their knowledge of the subject.
- jdprgm 12y agoI am entirely too good at passing these.
- n0body 12y agostupid. i only know who kanye & eminem is, never heard of the others and i've been listening to hip-hop all my life. although, it's not this pop hip-hop that's currently in fashion. get some real artists on there, then we'll talk
- XiZhao 12y agoUhh. Drake? Kendrick Lamar? Wtf are you talking about? You obviously do not listen to any rap.
- n0body 12y agoor i'm not 12?
- idunning 12y agoI think you should invest some time into checking out "good kid, m.A.A.d city" then, really fantastic album.
- n0body 12y agotried, it's terrible. try this instead, the coup - genocide and juice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f18N1VwPPv8&list=PLcxmmGC6Lv9wvxbwqETwOXrqsjrDyZeU3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f18N1VwPPv8&list=PLcxmmGC6Lv...
- Jach 12y agoYour comment would be more constructive if it requested some "real artists" by name... For what it's worth, my own requests would be (in no particular order) Immortal Technique, Eyedea, Tech N9ne, Tupac, Nas, Biggie, Xzibit, and Hopsin.
- LaikaF 12y agoTyler the Creator, Earl Sweatshirt, MF Doom, Deltron 3030 Aesop Rock and maybe Captain Murphy(might not be enough content). Gotta fill in those hipster rappers.
- rak 12y agoThis was fun. Great app.
- danielsamuels 12y agoIf you don't know the answer, you're better off choosing any option at the end of the timer to lose minimal points vs losing the full 150 for not answering.
- imwhimsical 12y agoGood job, Danny :)
- dcalacci 12y agoThis is awesome. Great job.
- moon_princess 12y agois it spinning waiting for script from cloudfront? i have noscript set to deny external scripts by default and the tab becomes unresponsive at 100% cpu while apparently doing nothing.
- lucasnemeth 12y agoVery nice UI. Hope you add some old school stuff in there! I went ok on the Kendrick Lamarr test, but would rock with A Tribe Called Quest.
- carlob 12y agoWhen I was a teen[1] there was this bar where they would give a free pint to everyone who could guess who was performing a given song. They gave out about one pint per hour. I wish I could find another place that did that. This website made me reminisce… [1] Legal drinking age is not really enforced in Italy.
- diego 12y agoI tried to navigate away from the page in the middle of the song in Chrome and got a warning popup about leaving the page that was completely uncloseable by clicking on either option. I had to kill Chrome processes one by one until I randomly hit that tab :(
- iDemonix 12y agoI just lost 15 minutes of my life becoming a God of Eminem. Really nice UI, was really smooth, no complaints, nice work.
- mandlar 12y agoOh. There's more than two rappers to choose from. Didn't notice that the first time I went to the page.
- possibilistic 12y agoNick texted me and told me to check HN. This is fantastic--totally kick ass, Dany! Congrats!
- anishkothari 12y agoRespect, amazing UI! It would be great to know how you made this. Now you just need to add some old-school rap :-)
- sneak 12y agoAny list of rappers that does not include Biggie is a bad list. He's the best that ever lived.
- kevin818 12y agoPlease define best, because best could mean different things to different people :)
- kevin818 12y agoWhat's with the downvotes? As a big fan of Biggie I'd like to know what it means to say he's the best rapper. Lyric-wise? Entertainment-wise? Intellectual-wise?
- quomopete 12y agoI don't know if best is the right word, but he is definitely one of the best. Some of the things I think really make him stand out are his storytelling, his flow, and his charisma (that he looks unconventional also probably plays into this). Also Puff Daddy was instrumental as a hype man in getting him to platforms like MTV etc. And his untimely death definitely plays into the modern mythology. But I think if there is anything that truly encompasses his talent it's this video right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hbwdAOogBw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hbwdAOogBw and this demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEaPDNgUPLE&feature=kp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEaPDNgUPLE&feature=kp
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- justathrow2k 12y agoadjective: best 1. of the most excellent, effective, or desirable type or quality. best for the most part won't mean different things to different people, but which rapper whom people think is the best is certainly a subjective thing.
- bhaumik 12y ago
- beamatronic 12y agoGreat design, very entertaining, and you put a big smile on my face. Thank you for sharing!
- ultimatedelman 12y agoThis is really fun. Well done :)
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- joshrotenberg 12y agoDang, dude. I started from the bottom and pretty much stayed there.
- geuis 12y agoThe mobile interface is really well done. I appreciate especially that through accident or intent landscape works well. Everything is quick and quite logically setup. The only downside is that I personally know nothing about rap, so the best I could guess were Real slim shady and another Eminem one by accident.
- habosa 12y agoExcellent job. I don't have a single complaint. It's very fun, the GIFs are great, and best of all it's extremely fast. Considering that it is audio and image heavy I don't know how you made it so fast. I'm gonna be playing this all day.
- frankdenbow 12y agoPretty cool. Reminds me of SongPop which was a hit for a while (basically put this into a competitive game with many categories). Nice work! I tried doing a startup based on short music clips (sourced from iTunes). Its too bad that its still a minefield legally until there are statutory rates for short clips of content.
- cocoflunchy 12y agoYou should be really careful with licensing when you're dealing with music. If you become big enough for the record companies to notice, they will come at you hard and fast with their lawyers.
- rohunati 12y agoAfter getting to level 6, I was like screw this, I just want to listen to some Ye. good work though!
- stefbowerman 12y agoReally fun to play. My only comment is that when the song starts playing, the answers to choose from get animated in, and the timer is down at least 10% by the time the last option is clickable.