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Show HN: Chirpy – Realtime data audiolization

10 points by tomfrew 11y ago

tomfrew 11y ago
A weekend project I created to monitor activity of an app we just launched. Chirpy generates audio melody from your realtime analytics data. You an quite literally listen to your users! Chirpy is still in the early stages (especially the tracking modules) but really interested to see what you guys think!
sgentle 11y ago
This is pretty fun. I think it would be better if the sounds were in some way related to the data. If you were using the web audio api you could do something nuts like hash any event text fields into synthesizer parameters so each event has a unique sound and scale the volume using numeric fields so it gets louder when your numbers get bigger. Really cool idea though!
- tomfrew 11y ago
  Thanks! I really like the idea of connecting the sounds to the data. Need to get playing with the web audio api!!
jgaudette 11y ago
This is awesome, I love the simplicity of it as well. Agree with others that more sounds would be great as well. Give some basics away as a free tier and make a higher tier that includes more sounds. Great job!
- tomfrew 11y ago
  Thanks! Glad you like it. Yeah been thinking about a paid tier with more customisability. Do you think it's something you would pay (a small monthly amount) for?
  - jgaudette 11y ago
    For my personal hobbies I wouldn't want to pay, but I could definitely see using this for my team. Dashing is prevalent throughout my company (we have them on TV's throughout the office), so if you monetize toward that angle, perhaps as an already baked widget that would definitely be appealing as well.
tomjacobs 11y ago
Weekend project? Tell more people about it. I just made something called glitch club that is sorta like "Show HN" on steroids. Show us Chirpy via video if you have the chance: http://glitchclub.com http://glitchclub.com
an_ko 11y ago
This is great! Ambient data can be really powerful. I'd never thought about it before, but having a little sense for how many users are on my sites and what they're doing would be hugely motivating. I once wrote a command-line program that would take the first n bytes of every file in the new directory and pipe them to sox to create a sound unique to the directory contents. It was good enough for a while that I could recognise projects I was working on by the sound of their root directories, but of course required headphones and the glitch sound was quite hard on the ears…
- tomfrew 11y ago
  Thanks! I've had it running in the background for a few days and it's REALLY motivating to hear peaks in app useage. Interesting... I'll have to play around with way to manipulate the sounds based on the data. Thanks for the feedback!

10 points by tomfrew 11y ago

A weekend project I created to monitor activity of an app we just launched. Chirpy generates audio melody from your realtime analytics data. You an quite literally listen to your users! Chirpy is still in the early stages (especially the tracking modules) but really interested to see what you guys think!

sgentle 11y ago

This is pretty fun. I think it would be better if the sounds were in some way related to the data. If you were using the web audio api you could do something nuts like hash any event text fields into synthesizer parameters so each event has a unique sound and scale the volume using numeric fields so it gets louder when your numbers get bigger. Really cool idea though!

tomfrew 11y ago
Thanks! I really like the idea of connecting the sounds to the data. Need to get playing with the web audio api!!

jgaudette 11y ago

This is awesome, I love the simplicity of it as well. Agree with others that more sounds would be great as well. Give some basics away as a free tier and make a higher tier that includes more sounds. Great job!

tomfrew 11y ago
Thanks! Glad you like it. Yeah been thinking about a paid tier with more customisability. Do you think it's something you would pay (a small monthly amount) for?
- jgaudette 11y ago
  For my personal hobbies I wouldn't want to pay, but I could definitely see using this for my team. Dashing is prevalent throughout my company (we have them on TV's throughout the office), so if you monetize toward that angle, perhaps as an already baked widget that would definitely be appealing as well.

tomjacobs 11y ago

Weekend project? Tell more people about it. I just made something called glitch club that is sorta like "Show HN" on steroids. Show us Chirpy via video if you have the chance: http://glitchclub.com http://glitchclub.com

an_ko 11y ago

This is great! Ambient data can be really powerful. I'd never thought about it before, but having a little sense for how many users are on my sites and what they're doing would be hugely motivating. I once wrote a command-line program that would take the first n bytes of every file in the new directory and pipe them to sox to create a sound unique to the directory contents. It was good enough for a while that I could recognise projects I was working on by the sound of their root directories, but of course required headphones and the glitch sound was quite hard on the ears…

tomfrew 11y ago
Thanks! I've had it running in the background for a few days and it's REALLY motivating to hear peaks in app useage. Interesting... I'll have to play around with way to manipulate the sounds based on the data. Thanks for the feedback!