Show HN: Trailer Swift

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Post by ptk921 » Wed, Mar 27, 2013, 3:31 PM UTC

Show HN: Trailer Swift
trailer-swift.com

Re: Show HN: Trailer Swift

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Post by ptk921 » Wed, Mar 27, 2013, 3:37 PM UTC

Built on the road from Seattle to SXSW. Rails, heroku, backbone, bootstrap. Location data from Google Latitude.

TODO: incorporate some lightweight analytics so we can work on new Trailer Swift records.

Re: Show HN: Trailer Swift

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Post by ISL » Wed, Mar 27, 2013, 3:47 PM UTC

Upvoted for the name alone. Good luck!

Re: Show HN: Trailer Swift

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Post by pstinnett » Wed, Mar 27, 2013, 3:52 PM UTC

Neat - I built something similar that uses the Songkick API and LeafletJS. Not quite as polished as yours though!

http://bandroute.cc/

Re: Show HN: Trailer Swift

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Post by romainberger » Wed, Mar 27, 2013, 4:05 PM UTC

Nice, but there are js errors (tested Chrome Canary) when clicking on the links in the bottom left corner

Re: Show HN: Trailer Swift

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Post by afarrell » Wed, Mar 27, 2013, 4:07 PM UTC

Your pin for Northampton is mislocated. Northampton is on the Connecticut River in western MA, not north of Boston. Here: https://maps.google.com/maps?42.31912,-72.63175

Re: Show HN: Trailer Swift

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Post by theory11 » Wed, Mar 27, 2013, 4:21 PM UTC

Very cool. Several months ago, there was an AMAZING tour tracking site posted here that showed the tour journey of a specific band I'm forgetting. Does anyone remember what that was?

Re: Show HN: Trailer Swift

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Post by thisone » Wed, Mar 27, 2013, 4:32 PM UTC

afarrell wrote: post #6

Your pin for Northampton is mislocated. Northampton is on the Connecticut River in western MA, not north of Boston. Here: https://maps.google.com/maps?42.31912,-72.63175

looks like someone got the town name wrong. The pin is located at North Hampton (which is the town name they list), though the venue is indeed in Northampton.

Re: Show HN: Trailer Swift

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Post by themstheones » Wed, Mar 27, 2013, 4:47 PM UTC

Why did you go through Houston instead of DFW? The latter is way cooler.

Re: Show HN: Trailer Swift

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Post by tunesmith » Wed, Mar 27, 2013, 5:03 PM UTC

I just listened to Looking Back (http://heymarseilles.com/media/) - Just curious - does anyone know if there's actually a name for that kind of vocal styling and where/when it came from?

I don't think I ever hear people talking like that - it seems to be a specific affectation only for singing. I think the first time I heard it was Michael Stipe in REM? But it's spread since then - the Decemberists, Alanis Morissette, and a bunch of indies since then. It's like a specific sort of dipthong.

Has anyone written about it?