Jason Bradshaw

Twelve hours from now, Nearplay goes live on Product Hunt.

A month ago I started building this. Six months ago it was a paragraph in Ready Player Two and a memory of pulling up to Sunday football matches with AC/DC blasting. Tomorrow at 8am UK time (= 00:01 PT) it goes out into the world properly.

I've been swinging between "this is the most exciting thing I've ever done" and "what was I thinking trying to launch as a first-time, non-technical founder" most of the week. I'm told that's normal.

If you've added a notify-me: thank you. Watching that number tick up has been quietly the most motivating thing of the past month and you'll all get an email the moment the listing goes live.

Hi PH

I'm Jason. A month ago I'd never built a product before. A month ago today I started building one. It's launching on Wednesday and I'm still slightly wide-eyed about it.

The why: I read Ready Player Two and there's a moment where music kicks in the second a character arrives somewhere meaningful. That sat with me. It pulled up a load of memories Sunday afternoons pulling up to the game with AC/DC blasting, the song already half-finished by the time we got to the car park. Hunting for the right banger before walking into the gym. Picking up my brother and knowing exactly which track he'd want playing as he opened the door.

Shortcuts can do a basic version of this set a location, play a track. But none of it did the full thing I had in my head: starting a song at a specific point rather than always from the beginning. Geofence sizing you can tune per place a small radius for a flat, a bigger one for a stadium. Roadtrip Drops that trigger a song halfway through a journey, for those proper family-road-trip moments. And the whole lot wired into Calendar and Contacts, so a meeting auto-becomes a drop and a friend's contact card does too.