Thank goodness. One of my Facebook friends spams my feed with his Heardle score every day and it drives me crazy.
Why not mute notifications of that type?
Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it
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Re: Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it
#12They ruined it! Pre-acquisition Heardle played the song from the beginning immediately after you finished guessing. Post-acquisition, you had to open the song in Spotify which introduced a lag of several seconds. The immediate visceral reward of playing the game disappeared.
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#14Heardle was one of the games that we really enjoyed quite a bit, but definitely needed some sort of variation to the game itself other than 'first x seconds'
Usually we would get the answer in a single try, because it happened to be a song we knew by heart, or we wouldn't get it at all because we didn't know the artist/it was just not in a genre to which we regularly listen/the song was an obscure hit or one hit wonder before our time
Perhaps it would have been better as 'guess the artist' and give you 5 second clips from decreasingly obscure songs
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#15Never heard of it. Thought it sounded fun. Went to play it.
I had to skip without guessing to the end and then see today’s answer. I never heard that song in my life, nor ever heard of the artist. Connecting Heardle to my Spotify profile would make a more fun game.
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#16What was their original plan when they purchased it? Was it just an acquihire all along?
Maybe the intention was to shut it down..
Re: Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it
#17As long as heardle 80s stays up.
Re: Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it
#18Oh dear. Less than a year.
This is what happens when businesses follow and chase short-term hype cycles and end up wasting time and money in the end. The return on investment of this acquired startup is exactly $0.
Facebook on the other hand with the Instagram acquisition gave returns into the tens of billions of dollars.
Re: Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it
#19Heardle was fun, but really needed more development. Why not use other parts of the song besides the intro? I think they also could broken it into genres or decades. I mostly lost interest because I'd go too many days with songs that I simply had no chance with. (I assume they are popular with the kids, but I'm out of touch)
https://heardledecades.com/
you're welcome!
Re: Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it
#20Heardle was fun, but really needed more development. Why not use other parts of the song besides the intro? I think they also could broken it into genres or decades. I mostly lost interest because I'd go too many days with songs that I simply had no chance with. (I assume they are popular with the kids, but I'm out of touch)
You might want to try heardledecades.com. It’s pretty amazing, whoever runs it deserves an award, they keep adding new stuff.