Wow! Thank you to everyone who supported SoundGate Guitar! Finishing at #2 exceeded our expectations.
For Vahe and me the best part of the day wasn't the ranking - it was the conversations in the comments. We loved seeing how many of you resonated with the need for a real-time practice companion rather than just another video library.
We took notes on every single comment. Here is the top feedback we received and what it means for our roadmap:
New Instruments: A ton of you asked for Bass and Ukulele support so you can jam together. We are focused on perfecting the 6-string engine right now, but Bass is next in line!
Advanced Technique Detection: We had great questions about expression detection. We are actively training our models to catch bends, slides, vibrato, and palm muting.
Distortion & Amp Effects: Right now our engine is optimized for clean tones. Based on your feedback, we are prioritizing updates to handle distorted tones and heavy effects just as accurately.
Android Support: We heard you! Right now we are fully native on Apple (SwiftUI), but we know we need to bring SoundGate to the Android ecosystem.
It doesn't even have to be a big dramatic failures, more the small moments where something clicked and you went from trusting the output by default to double checking everything. For me it was watching an agent confidently rename a function across twelve files, then leave the original function untouched in a thirteenth file it apparently didn't search, with zero indication anything had been missed. It wasn't even a hard case, the file just wasn't in the directory it happened to grep first. What was your moment? And did it actually change your workflow afterward, or did the trust creep back in after a week like it always seems to for me?
