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.
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Jason, founder of RMEMBER LTD and the maker of Nearplay.
I built this because of one specific page in Ready Player Two: a song that plays the moment you arrive somewhere meaningful. I couldn't find a way for it to work how I imagined it in my head, so I made one.
Nearplay lets you save a place — your gym, your grandparents' house, the pub you go to on Fridays — and pin a song, an album, or a playlist to it. As you arrive, your music takes over whatever was playing. Main character energy, automated.
You can start a track at the chorus or drop to really have that 'Entrance' music feel - then follow it up with your playlist to continue the vibes.
Two ways to use it: an Apple Music subscription gives you the full catalogue; or, if you don't subscribe, individual tracks you already own (including 99p iTunes purchases) work just as well. "Buy one song for one place, yours forever" is genuinely my favourite thing about the model.
It's been the most rewarding thing I've ever built. Massive thanks to my brother for testing every TestFlight build at unsociable hours.
I'll be in the comments all day — would love to hear which place you'd pin a song to. Honest feedback (good or brutal) is genuinely what I'm here for.
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