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You don’t have to be an artist to try it out! You can play with it (for free) and for fun by making a Noise for your favorite artist. Feedback is really appreciated!
Show HN: I made a tool to turn a Spotify artist profile into a website
noise.site
neat idea. i clicked on the link expecting to be able to do this as a consumer. my bet is most people seeing this on HN are consumers and not producers. would be cool to do this with a spotify user's listening history etc. tbh i don't really see the musicians i know being interested in this.
The product is quite simple, it's a (unique artist website) x (link-in-bio) that uses Spotify as a starting point for the artist data. I'm pretty sure there is a huge market for it, just need to focus on keeping it simple and build the right features. Time will only tell! but thx for the feedback.
Why does it need access to my google account?
why auth to google? wouldn't auth to spotify be more appropriate?
First, the best case scenario is that I display a sign-in with Spotify button that I use to get artist information from Spotify! but the problem is that this has zero value from a technical standpoint as there is no such thing as Spotify Artist User. The artist profile can be managed by multiple places, some complicated sh*t, not as straightforward I imagined!
The second reason is that I don't wanna lock my self into Spotify's API too much because they can revoke my access anytime they want, and although everything is going fine for now, they don't seem to be very developer-friendly. For example, I need to wait 6 weeks to get a bigger limit rate for their API usage.
So, if I use something more reliable for auth like Google or normal email/password, I can easily switch from relying on Spotify easily (think "turn your apple music/sound cloud etc.." to a website).
I don't need Google specifically, it's just an auth method but I get the confusion, I was planning to use Spotify's login button to just avoid all this but used Google for the reasons above. I'll probably add Email as another signing up method next to Google to mitigate some of the confusion.
why auth to google? wouldn't auth to spotify be more appropriate?
Of course, you have a point! First, the best case scenario is that I display a sign-in with Spotify button that I use to get artist information from Spotify! but the problem is that this has zero value from a technical standpoint as there is no such thing as Spotify Artist User. The artist profile can be managed by multiple places, some complicated sh*t, not as straightforward I imagined! The second reason is that I…
Thanks for taking the time to explain, makes sense!
Why does it need access to my google account?
> You're an artist.
> A good one.
> Nope, a great one.
> But you have a sh*tty site.
> You wanna make it better.
> You call the guy.
> Never replies.
> ...
IF this is true (I can't say as I'm not an artist on Spotify), then this alone can sell your product.