Show HN: SameTunes – A Music Compatibility Platform for Spotify
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#2Hey HN!
I'm one of the developers on the SameTunes team. We've spent the whole summer working out of a house to build this platform. We're really proud of the work we've done and hope you all enjoy using it.
With SameTunes you can view interesting statistics about your taste, find your music compatibility with friends, and discover new music!
Let us know what you think
Re: Show HN: SameTunes – A Music Compatibility Platform for Spotify
#3Cool idea, I just tried it out. Any reason you used PHP, and I assume a LAMP stack, instead of something more modern?
Re: Show HN: SameTunes – A Music Compatibility Platform for Spotify
#4Cool idea, I just tried it out. Any reason you used PHP, and I assume a LAMP stack, instead of something more modern?
It's interesting that these kind of false premises come up often on HN. Don't get me wrong, I don't like PHP either, but nowadays. PHP is just as "modern" as many other languages in use. And with frameworks like Laravel and Symfony, it stacks up well against the likes of Ruby on Rails, Django or any NodeJS based stack.
And let's not forget that the majority of websites and webapps runs on PHP.
Re: Show HN: SameTunes – A Music Compatibility Platform for Spotify
#5Cool idea, I just tried it out. Any reason you used PHP, and I assume a LAMP stack, instead of something more modern?
Good eye and good question!
When I first joined, the existing codebase was already built out in PHP on a LAMP stack. I was really opposed to it at first but I've learned to love it since. The safety, speed, and size of a compiled language on the web is something most modern frameworks can't compete with.
I, personally, have built a ton of in-house APIs here aiming to "modernise" php and am really proud of the outcome. It's nowhere as safe, readable, or dynamic as something like a Rust or Swift but PHP is definitely a strong competitor for the modern web (IMO).
This article https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology also really helped me come around early on.
Re: Show HN: SameTunes – A Music Compatibility Platform for Spotify
#6Cool idea, I just tried it out. Any reason you used PHP, and I assume a LAMP stack, instead of something more modern?
It's interesting that these kind of false premises come up often on HN. Don't get me wrong, I don't like PHP either, but nowadays. PHP is just as "modern" as many other languages in use. And with frameworks like Laravel and Symfony, it stacks up well against the likes of Ruby on Rails, Django or any NodeJS based stack. And let's not forget that the majority of websites and webapps runs on PHP.
I think that’s totally fair. I have a personal project that I’m getting started on and I’m having trouble picking a stack to use. I hear a lot of conflicting opinions on here. I’ve looked through the documentation for newer frameworks like React and they seem really easy to get started with.
Re: Show HN: SameTunes – A Music Compatibility Platform for Spotify
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's interesting that these kind of false premises come up often on HN. Don't get me wrong, I don't like PHP either, but nowadays. PHP is just as "modern" as many other languages in use. And with frameworks like Laravel and Symfony, it stacks up well against the likes of Ruby on Rails, Django or any NodeJS based stack. And let's not forget that the majority of websites and webapps runs on PHP.
I think that’s totally fair. I have a personal project that I’m getting started on and I’m having trouble picking a stack to use. I hear a lot of conflicting opinions on here. I’ve looked through the documentation for newer frameworks like React and they seem really easy to get started with.
I'm in no place to recommend technologies to chose (I'm no expert) but the documentation argument is a good one. There are a lot of articles from the past few decades introducing different odds and ends with PHP. Additionally, PHPDocs are great but they're nothing in comparison to the tutorials and examples provided by things like ReactJS' or Vue's official docs.
Re: Show HN: SameTunes – A Music Compatibility Platform for Spotify
#8Hey HN! I'm one of the developers on the SameTunes team. We've spent the whole summer working out of a house to build this platform. We're really proud of the work we've done and hope you all enjoy using it. With SameTunes you can view interesting statistics about your taste, find your music compatibility with friends, and discover new music! Let us know what you think
I find the marketing message a bit hard to swallow. The perfect answer for “what kind of music do you listen to” in person shouldn’t be something where we stop the flow of conversation and pull out our phones. It’s unclear to me why I’d want to use this. It would be helpful to see some example screenshots on the home page for be to better understand the value.
Re: Show HN: SameTunes – A Music Compatibility Platform for Spotify
#9Hey HN! I'm one of the developers on the SameTunes team. We've spent the whole summer working out of a house to build this platform. We're really proud of the work we've done and hope you all enjoy using it. With SameTunes you can view interesting statistics about your taste, find your music compatibility with friends, and discover new music! Let us know what you think
Nice work, it looks really polished! What I would suggest improving is the single user experience: what I can do without involving friends. Right now I only see a huge list of strangers in alphabetical order. Picking someone at random seems pointless. However, if strangers could be sorted by match, that could be really interesting. That could also serve as a benchmark for my matchscore with friends.
If this is prohibitively costly in your current setup, I would suggest mapping each user profile to an embedding vector and find best matches using approximate nearest neighbors, that scales really well.
Re: Show HN: SameTunes – A Music Compatibility Platform for Spotify
#10Hey HN! I'm one of the developers on the SameTunes team. We've spent the whole summer working out of a house to build this platform. We're really proud of the work we've done and hope you all enjoy using it. With SameTunes you can view interesting statistics about your taste, find your music compatibility with friends, and discover new music! Let us know what you think
I find the marketing message a bit hard to swallow. The perfect answer for “what kind of music do you listen to” in person shouldn’t be something where we stop the flow of conversation and pull out our phones. It’s unclear to me why I’d want to use this. It would be helpful to see some example screenshots on the home page for be to better understand the value.
I appreciate the feedback! I definitely think adding some examples to the homepage is a good feature.
This idea was something we, a group of college students, felt was missing from our social interactions. I agree, it's a bit clunky to set this up mid conversation.
I, personally, find that this works really well with existing friends or when forming new friends online through things like Instagram or Tinder.
To your point, we're always looking to expand our use cases and reduce the first time friction.