Ben MacDougall

Ben MacDougall

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Ben MacDougall is a composer for film, TV, and games whose credits include the award-winning soundtrack for PS5 launch title Godfall and original music for Honor of Kings, the world's most-played mobile game. Based in Los Angeles, he's spent his career fascinated by the way music and sound move us – how a few seconds of the right thing can change how you feel. Somnideck is where that fixation met new-parent sleep deprivation. Beyond the scoring work, Ben has a deep love of ambient music and a questionable willingness to wade into mosquito-infested rainforests with recording gear to capture the perfect soundscape.

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  • Somnideck
    SomnideckRecord and loop your world
    Jun 2026
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    Joined Product HuntApril 3rd, 2026

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Somnideckp/somnideckAmy MacDougall•

1d ago

Born at 3 AM: What would you want this tool to do?

We'd just had a baby and were deep in the zombie phase, the very-early-hours feeds where you desperately want sleep and your newborn hasn't quite figured out how to be alive yet. One of those nights, about 45 minutes into shushing our son, my husband Ben (@oscardog) thought: Wouldn't it be great if something could just do this?

Ben's a composer, he scores films and games. But the idea came from further back: the tape recorders he had as a kid, when he'd splice real tape into literal loops that ran round and round for hours. So he started building a shush machine that worked like a tape deck. Open it, press record, make your sound, and ten seconds later it's looping. That became Somnideck.

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