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I recently dove headfirst into songwriting, and I quickly grew frustrated with my process. I found songwriting difficult enough without having to wrangle a mess of different tools, and there's no great solution to build chord sheets and tabs (unless you love pure text input).\n\nSo, I built Songcraft - an online songwriting platform and tab builder. The drag-and-drop editor makes it easy to jump from chords to lyrics to melodies. I added a chord progression generator and chord recommendation engine to ensure the ideas keep f",{"problem":47,"audience":53,"pricing":66,"motivation":75,"time_to_build":9,"stack":79,"openness":86,"stage":87,"team_size":88},{"value":48,"source":49,"evidence":50},"Songwriters juggle many tools; no good solution exists for building chord sheets and tabs beyond plain text","maker",[51],{"id":52},"post",{"value":54,"source":55,"evidence":56},"Songwriters and guitar players writing songs","inferred",[57,58,62],{"id":52},{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},"19443803","shams93","Wow nice work, I haven't seen anything quite as well laid out for typical songwriter use. There are some good web apps for handling notation and composition but I haven't found…",{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},"19447822","mr_tristan","I'd be curious to hear about the experience with customers in 6-12 months. It seems like if you can tap into the \"hobbyist\" market, and keep them interested, it could be a solid…",{"value":67,"source":49,"evidence":68},"Basic plan free; Pro at $4.95\u002Fmo launch discount for 3 months then $8.95\u002Fmo; annual and lifetime plans planned",[69,72],{"id":70,"by":10,"text":71},"19447332","This is very helpful feedback, thank you. In a couple places, I mention that the $4.95\u002Fmo rate (Launch discount) is for the first 3 months of your subscription before it changes…",{"id":73,"by":10,"text":74},"19447206","I wanted to launch with a simple pricing model, but I'm working on developing a longer term (annual\u002Flifetime) plan to sit alongside the monthly one. I think that's an important…",{"value":76,"source":49,"evidence":77},"Maker frustrated with juggling tools while learning songwriting",[78],{"id":52},[80],{"value":81,"source":49,"evidence":82},"Recurrent neural network used for chord recommendations",[83],{"id":84,"by":10,"text":85},"19447158","The progressions from the generator are based on manipulations of common patterns in scale degrees. The chord recommendations in the editor are predicted from a recurrent neural…","unknown","launched","solo",{"praise":90,"objections":111,"requests":142,"questions":180,"alternatives":194},[91,104],{"value":92,"source":93,"evidence":94},"Well laid out, polished editor UX","commenter",[95,96,100],{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},{"id":97,"by":98,"text":99},"19448250","d0m","Congrats on the launch and on the UX\u002FUI of the editor. There are so many great features and yet it feels simple and not overwhelming at first.",{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},"19445071","JamCult","This is a huge unmet need in the market. I have over 300 guitar parts recorded into iOS Music Memos, which does a decent job of automating the break out of chords played but…",{"value":105,"source":93,"evidence":106},"Many tools packed into one app",[107],{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},"19445163","maximp","This is super cool, and the number of tools you've packed into a single app (metronome, tuner, recording, rhyming dictionary, chord prediction) is really impressive. Great job…",[112,123,134],{"value":113,"source":93,"evidence":114},"Pricing is unclear, including the launch discount and price changes",[115,119],{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},"19447207","ry-n","This. And somewhat discouraged by the seemingly imaginary 44% discount on the pricing page. Has 8.95\u002Fmo ever been the price? Is it going to be? Is this just a permanent gimmick?…",{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"19448930","ChristianGeek","You really need to clarify the pricing quickly. As it is now, if I signed up for the $4.95 offer and it got changed to $8.95 after three months I’d be pissed.",{"value":124,"source":93,"evidence":125},"No song playback yet",[126,130],{"id":127,"by":128,"text":129},"19445309","underdown","App seems extremely well thought out from first look, however, how do i actually play a song back?",{"id":131,"by":132,"text":133},"19447334","revskill","How to play a song ? I don't see any play button there.",{"value":135,"source":93,"evidence":136},"Unclear data export and handling of paused subscriptions",[137,138],{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},{"id":139,"by":140,"text":141},"19455374","xster","I think deactivating accounts etc works for some areas of productivity but the creativity is so fragile. When you're busy and you're choosing between turning on one more switch…",[143,152,159,166,173],{"value":144,"source":93,"evidence":145},"Full song playback",[146,150,151],{"id":147,"by":148,"text":149},"19446981","this2shallPass","Thanks for making this! This was my first questions as well. Can you ship the very simple form, and later ship the more robust version?",{"id":127,"by":128,"text":129},{"id":131,"by":132,"text":133},{"value":153,"source":93,"evidence":154},"Rhythm\u002Fbars alongside lyrics",[155],{"id":156,"by":157,"text":158},"19445953","byproxy","I wish you could incorporate rhythm\u002Fbars on top of the lyrics along with the chord symbols. I've been playing guitar since 2005, and I still find it exceedingly difficult to play…",{"value":160,"source":93,"evidence":161},"MIDI export",[162],{"id":163,"by":164,"text":165},"19446003","Mizza","This is great, I've got a bunch of hacky tools that do something similar-ish, but not as polished as this! Good work Feature request: export to MIDI.",{"value":167,"source":93,"evidence":168},"Standard notation support",[169],{"id":170,"by":171,"text":172},"19446615","lhorie","Any plans for supporting standard notation?",{"value":174,"source":93,"evidence":175},"Tab hosting and sharing",[176],{"id":177,"by":178,"text":179},"19448105","ioseph","The editor looks fantastic! Have you considered hosting tabs for sharing? 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