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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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Woah, blew my ears off. I did not expect it to start playing instantly. Awesomeness past that. Simple. Quick. No bullshit. I usually don't use services like this but I find myself still listening. You should offer a link to where you got the track, the artist title and song name are great starts.

Thanks for the warning

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

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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 was wondering what happened to the old mixest. I had a pretty huge favorites list before it was killed.

PS - your design work looks great (on both versions of mixest as well as your portfolio)

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