Songstack

Swipe to discover new music for Spotify

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Lawrence Holmes
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!
Niv Dror
@lawrhol congrats on the launch! This looks great 🎉
Lawrence Holmes
@nivo0o0 Thank you! 🙌
Lawrence Holmes
@_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!
Jamie Shoard
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.
Lawrence Holmes
@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.
Jonathan Etaix
"Spotify Premium is required" :/
Lawrence Holmes
@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!
Jason Weingardt
@etaixj It's SO worth it
Kees Suijkerbuijk
Love it! But please turn off autoplay :-)
Lawrence Holmes
@suijkerwerk Thanks for the kind words! If you look in the settings there's an option to do just that :)
Kees Suijkerbuijk
@lawrhol I understand. But I was in a meeting. It was quite a surprise ;-)
Lawrence Holmes
@suijkerwerk Haha! Apologies - I'll think about preventing autoplay on the initial startup.
Erick Chévez Rivera
Really good 🎉, clean UI, fast and snappy. Great job! 🙌
Lawrence Holmes
Ki
@lawrhol very clean UI indeed! Can I know what did you use to do the app presentation on your home page ?
Lawrence Holmes
@kilions thanks! Sure, it's simply a video capture of the iOS app, paired with an iPhone graphic and some CSS 3D animations. If you have any more questions, let me know.
Josh Matz
Awesome! I've always loved the stations Pandora created for me and this brings it to Spotify. I wish giving a song a thumbs up didn't skip it though.
Lawrence Holmes
@joshmatz if you don't skip and listen to the whole song it will automatically like it for you! If you're on the web app then go in to the settings to enable this behaviour :)
Josh Matz
@lawrhol I saw that! Super cool :)
GJ
Congrats, really cool app!
Lawrence Holmes
@gertjanwilde thank you very much!
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