Sounds of Gratitude by Bonusly — Experience real-time appreciation from around the world

Hey Product Hunt 👋 Really excited to share this new project I've been working just in time for the week of Thanksgiving: Sounds of Gratitude! It started as a hackathon project that @maxverse and I created a few weeks ago, and we decided to share it publicly since we received a lot of positive internal feedback (plus I love to listen to it as background music when I work). 🎧 Each animation and sound represents a real message of appreciation as it occurs, a reminder of the positive interactions that happen all around us each day. Through the years, we've noticed some fascinating uses of data as digital art (like Listen to Wikipedia), an experience that's even more magical when it happens in real time! That's why we were so excited to work on doing something similar with appreciation data from Bonusly. We both learned a ton about data visualization, canvas, Websockets, and Firebase to pull this off, and we're excited to share it with the PH community! 🙌 We could all use more positivity in our lives, right?

The idea of taking gratitude from around the world and turning it into sounds is awesome. It's soothing sounds for work and puts a smile on my face thinking about people recognizing and saying thank you to one another. What a perfect product for Thanksgiving! Thanks @peerbonus for a great product that makes this type of visualization possible (and for some Monday morning happy feelings). 🤗

I love this - such a great idea! As a Human Resource Manager at IT startup, I'm loving the combo of employee appreciation, relaxing sounds and technology!

Just learned about this and have had it on in the background for a few minutes; as others have mentioned, the positive vibes of sounds generated by offerings of gratitude are really uplifting. Moving to a degree I wouldn't have anticipated. Thanks @bmtravis and @maxverse, I love this.

I really like the idea behind this product and it really goes well with where I want my mind to be at during work. The sounds are rhythmic, but not repetitive, which go well with my mind's desire for stimulation through sound, which help my short attention span from getting distracted while I work. I'm currently playing it during work and will probably keep it on throughout the day and try it out later as I'm studying. I really appreciate how it's very gentle with the chords played. This is something that I can have on in my shared work space without feeling like I am going to impede upon my co-workers productivity or distract my students' train of thought while I meet with them. But also, keeping in mind the idea of how each chord played is representing a positive engagement, I think can also help to keep listeners in a positive mood as well. This might be more of a product of subconscious thought, but I think that it can provide a soothing element whenever a user is engaged with the program.

What an awesome concept! It's sweet that you've taken real, real-time data and turned it into a mesmerizing visualization/audio-ization with a heartwarming meaning behind it. Thanks @peerbonus for sharing!

What an awesome concept! It's sweet that you've taken real, real-time data and turned it into a mesmerizing visualization/audio-ization with a heartwarming meaning behind it. Thanks @peerbonus for sharing!

Well this just put a smile on my face on a Monday morning. Thanks @peerbonus team this is very cool.