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Very nice. I'm a huge fan of https://mynoise.net/ , I'll try yours for a bit to see how they compare.
I use https://brain.fm . Not convinced by all the science claims, but it does seem to help me to focus.
I really dislike that after clicking `Start Listening Free` there is no way to get back to the home page. https://www.flowful.app/ redirects to https://www.flowful.app/player after that.
I don't get it. I love ambient tunes and listen to them for 1-10 hours a day while doing stuff. Any time I need to focus (even when writing an email) I'll throw on my favorite ambient music. How is this any different? Why would I get a "premium" account for some random website when there's an entire catalog of ambient music on Spotify/Apple/etc that I could listen to?
The biggest differentiator may be the infinite length of tracks. Once you tune into something that fits it can be left going as long as necessary. With other services there is a need to compose play lists or restart the player when a selection ends.
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A long time ago, a friend mentioned this exact same idea! The analogy he used was how steam engine operators became so familiar with their machines that they could tell what was going on just by listening. I'm not sure if we can really do the same with services, but it's a fun thought experiment.
At one place I worked at back in the 1970s there was a speaker on the mainframe (it may have just been a transistor radio picking up interference) and you could get some idea of what the machine was doing from the sound.
What's the copyright on this - could I use it for twitch streams?
I own the copyright. Would prefer if you attribute, but don't mind you using it.
I remember reading a book a while back that presented the idea of computer generated patents to ensure you own every aspect of an idea.
Seems a little nuts that someone could create a program to generate nearly infinite output then claim a copyright on all of it.
One suggestion: a brief fade in/out on play/stop. Stops, in particular can be pretty jarring.
Nice, this is why I browse HN for. Can you tell use more about the tech involved? Perfect for a daily meditation.
Sure thing. Further down in another comment I went into how the music is made, so I'll stick to the tech stack here. The frontend is built with React, Chakra UI and Tailwind CSS. It also does all of the audio generation using a scheduling library called Tone.js. Auth / Database are handled by Firebase, and payments are by Stripe. It's fully serverless; I use cloud functions for anything server side. The samples thems…
Love this. A project I've had in mind for a while but realistically will never get around to building is an ambient/coding music generator that's hooked up to a metric, e.g. your project's latency, autoscale size, error rate, potentially controlling different instruments. It would be fun to be able to subconsciously monitor your system without staring at graphs.
That's a cool idea. Something that was suggested to me with Flowful was to use some sort of body triggers, perhaps from facial recgonition through your device's camera, to determine when the user was becoming less focused. The music could then adapt to help them get back on track. So many cool possibilities.
Then I thought of a project that would give me status via soundbeep,500,400.
I never got around to doing that but it wouldn't have been half bad.
Three small beeps in a succession, repeat, internet is down or some combination of deep or low beeps to say something else.