Panther
Consumer and social
music discovery
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
8 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 1 critical, out of 20 comments about the project. Thread score +0.36.
Idea: 2 for, 1 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Smooth, slick interface and design
From 3 comments
Maybe, but your interface is smooth and slick! It was a weekend project for me, so didn't have time to refine it too much, and it does what I use it to do, but it definitely…
TisButMe on HNvery cool UI and concept. I love it. I think it would be cool to show the entire history of your selections to see where you start and where you finish. Nevertheless awesome work!
pfarrar on HNToo effective for me. Now I'm listening to the first artist it recommended instead of exploring the site more.
tgb on HN
Fun concept for exploring music
From 3 comments
Here's an academic paper that investigates this approach (screenshots towards the end), along with end-user experiments:…
atrudeau on HNThis is very, very cool. Nice work guys.
markbnj on HNpretty dope
killa_kyle on HN
Objections
Suggestions are only as good as Spotify's related artists data
From 2 comments
I tried it with "Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds" and got some pretty useless results: ``` Nick Cave, which he's done some solo work as Mick Harvey, one of the members of the band…
anoonmoose on HNLooks nice! Just two things: 1. Where did you get the data from? I saw the Github link but, at least to me, it's not clear where the artist links come from. 2. Clicking two…
lucb1e on HN
Clicking two artists does not improve matches
From 1 comment
Looks nice! Just two things: 1. Where did you get the data from? I saw the Github link but, at least to me, it's not clear where the artist links come from. 2. Clicking two…
lucb1e on HN
Long artist names overflow the circles
From 1 comment
Those circles seem to be problematic for long artist titles, which don't wrap.[0] You might want to try dynamically splitting into tspans every word or phrase of sufficient…
wanda on HN
Requests
Link artists to Spotify or other music services
From 2 comments
This is great! As a spotify junkie (and since you're using the spotify api), it would be great if there were links from the artist/album/tracks directly to spotify.
bcanzanella on HNTo be honest, I don't have Spotify and I'd still probably use it for that. Perhaps link to searches on multiple services? Youtube/SoundCloud/Amazon/iTunes maybe? With referral…
jarcane on HN
Show history of selections
From 1 comment
very cool UI and concept. I love it. I think it would be cool to show the entire history of your selections to see where you start and where you finish. Nevertheless awesome work!
pfarrar on HN
Questions
Where the artist graph data comes from
From 2 comments
Looks nice! Just two things: 1. Where did you get the data from? I saw the Github link but, at least to me, it's not clear where the artist links come from. 2. Clicking two…
lucb1e on HNCurious regarding the basis for the artist graph.
brudgers on HN
Alternatives named
Bandmap
From 1 comment
Looks like we had a similar idea :D http://bandmap.me/
TisButMe on HN
Audio Vine
From 1 comment
I used to run a similar service called Audio Vine. You'd start by picking one song. Then you were given 4 choices for the next song, which were derived from Last.fm's "similar…
matmann2001 on HN
Spotify related artists
From 1 comment
Might be useful for anyone who doesn't have Spotify. The information is similar to (some omissions, maybe a max of 3 recommended?) what Spotify recommends in the "related…
nerdy on HN