Hi everyone, excited to be making my second post on Product Hunt!
I'm a student from Bournemouth University, and this is what I have made for my graduate project - my final work as a student. It's called Songstack, and it is a Spotify-integrated music discovery app for iOS and the web. Kind of like 'Tinder for music discovery' you could say.
The iOS app is written with Swift, the web app was built with React, and both of these work with a server built with Node.js, Express and MongoDB.
I've spent a few months working on this and am really proud of how it has turned out - if you check it out, let me know what you think. Any questions, I'm here to answer :)
Oh and heads up - Spotify Premium is required, unfortunately.
Cheers!
@lawrhol I love this, have some initial feedback after using the app for about an hour.
I should be able to add 5+ artists to a stack, and edit the artists associated with a stack. Personally the way I would use this is to use IFTTT to save songs to a specific playlist I use for new songs I hear, and that is not feasible with numerous stacks creating numerous playlists. Would be cool if there was an option to have all stacks pointing to one playlist.
Lastly, I can't seem to delete stacks.
These details aside, I am a huge fan and will be using this app consistently as Discover Weekly is not enough for me. Thanks!!!
@_sklahr_ thanks for the feedback!
Regarding adding more than 5 artists / editing them, this would not actually be very useful - these initial artists are only used until you've 'liked' 5 tracks, then your liked tracks inform future recommendations and the artists are disregarded (for now).
Adding all likes to a single playlist is an interesting idea, not been requested before. I'll think about that one.
Deleting stacks, yes this is not currently possible on the web app - but it should be! Adding this to my todo list, thanks.
Cheers again for taking the time to feedback - really glad you're enjoying using it!
Beautiful work, and simple enough to hold it's own in the music discovery world ;) Had a dud week on Discover Weekly so this should keep me going for a while!
Also, bloody fantastic portfolio of products! Setify is something I do manually before most gigs, and Festival was super accurate, love 'em! Awesome.
@jamie_shoard thanks so much! Let me know how it goes for you!
I also have mixed results with Discover Weekly. A feature for Songstack I'm thinking about working on soon is to listen to your Discover Weekly in the 'stack' format. Seems like a nice way to quickly go through the tracks, and of course the ones you like will go into a special 'Discover Picks' playlist.
@etaixj I know, sorry dude.
In an early beta I enabled 30 second previews for non-premium users, but it turned out to not be a great user experience. On top of this there were bugs with using the previews on iOS and I was running out of time, so I made a call to just make the app premium only in the end.
If there is demand, I will look into adding the 30 second previews back in. What do you think, would use it in this way?
Thanks for checking it out anyway!
I liked it, but now I can't use it because I get a security warning when I try to go to the site. It says the site's certificate expired over 200 days ago. I hope it gets fixed soon.
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