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Show HN: Mixest, my summer project that crawls the web for new indie music

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Re: Show HN: Mixest, my summer project that crawls the web for new indie music

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Post by agotterer »

hazelcough wrote: post #2

Mixest was a project I built this summer because Pandora is too mainstream and Spotify isn't random enough. I wrote a scraper and crawler in node.js that constantly searches for new blogs and adds new music to the radio. Instead of an account system, I used HTML5 local storage to keep track of favorite songs and recently played songs. You may have seen Mixest on HN 3 years ago, back when it was written in PHP. Its da…

Congrats on re-launching! Could you tell us a little about the tech? I think some folks would be interested in hearing about the node crawler and maybe a little about how it distinguishes indie music from the rest of the content out there.

Re: Show HN: Mixest, my summer project that crawls the web for new indie music

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Post by brandoncapecci »

brador wrote: post #61

How would you monetize something like this?

I'd say with the quality of music I've seen, people would be willing to pay (month/year) for the service provided he develops it a bit further. Another possibility would be to have referrals to purchase the music like turntable.fm does.

Re: Show HN: Mixest, my summer project that crawls the web for new indie music

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Post by technel »

hazelcough wrote: post #2

Mixest was a project I built this summer because Pandora is too mainstream and Spotify isn't random enough. I wrote a scraper and crawler in node.js that constantly searches for new blogs and adds new music to the radio. Instead of an account system, I used HTML5 local storage to keep track of favorite songs and recently played songs. You may have seen Mixest on HN 3 years ago, back when it was written in PHP. Its da…

I ran a vaguely similar music discovery service called Albumcorner earlier this year. I got in touch with the guy who did Mixest -- seemed like a really great guy. I got the impression that he wasn't going to relaunch after the attack on the server, though, so it's great to hear he passed the baton. And it looks better than ever, Michelle, nice work!
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