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Re: Show HN: I made a tool to turn a Spotify artist profile into a website

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ahmdyassr wrote: post #5
greenie_beans wrote: post #2

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.

Thx! it doesn't hurt to have non-artists just trying it out for fun. I'm not the best developer so it helps me figure out dev/ux issues real-time and pushes me to improve the platform. 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…

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Re: Show HN: I made a tool to turn a Spotify artist profile into a website

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Post by alexanderdavide »

greenie_beans wrote: post #2

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.

If you're interested in something for consumers, I recommend you try https://stats.fm/.

Re: Show HN: I made a tool to turn a Spotify artist profile into a website

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Post by dylan604 »

ahmdyassr wrote: post #5
greenie_beans wrote: post #2

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.

Thx! it doesn't hurt to have non-artists just trying it out for fun. I'm not the best developer so it helps me figure out dev/ux issues real-time and pushes me to improve the platform. 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…

I'm guessing you're thinking smaller independent artists would "need" this?

Most artist's websites are created by their management/label/etc. They'll want to have tour information, and lots of other stuff than what Spotify might know about them. There's no way to add concert images/media and personalize it. This is just a reskinning of Spotify and drastically limits usability

This seems like a nice experiment of "can I use a 3rd party API to create a new thing" which is a valid thing to be able to do. And you've made a nice little thing with it. Is it practical? If you're goal was to learn and hack together something, then mission accomplished. Job well done. Is it practical for the artist? Sorry, but I don't think it is.

Re: Show HN: I made a tool to turn a Spotify artist profile into a website

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Post by DreaminDani »

ahmdyassr wrote: post #23
willquack wrote: post #17

Reminds me of all the great lastfm music visualization sites...

Thx! Fun fact, I still use last.fm counting over 100k scrobbles!

Same! I even wrote a thing that prints out my latest listens on my website: https://dreamindani.com/iam/
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