Song Rabbit
Consumer and social
lyric search
SHOW HN2011
291points
141comments
#15of 1,097 in 2011
Top 2%of 2011 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
19 positive, 36 neutral or asking, 9 mixed, 26 critical, out of 90 comments about the project. Thread score -0.08.
Execution: 4 for, 13 againstIdea: 7 for, 4 againstDesign: 2 for, 7 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 2 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, ad-free interface
From 3 comments
That feels oddly strange on a lyrics site. To not being bombarded with Google Ads left, right & center! Thanks for the clean interface.
serialpreneur on HNI like Dennis (and what he's all about) and the site is very clean! Nice.
NickNam on HNNice work, I typed "pompatous" and the results were spot on. I wish some one would give your a good domain name... maybe jig.com.
jcampbell1 on HN
Finds obscure songs well
From 2 comments
Kudos - I tried something reasonably obscure: Jebediah - Military Strongmen and it got it.
timcederman on HNGreat start - glad someone finally did this. And it's good - I searched for "meet your downstairs" and the Amy Winehouse song I was looking for came up. Maybe add a way for users…
bitops on HN
Objections
Search misses many songs and returns wrong matches
From 3 comments
The idea is great. The search responses fail to find a lot of pretty standard songs (girls want to be with the girls fails to return the talking heads song, helicopter fails to…
mturmon on HNI searched for "Grizzly Bear Ready" looking for "Ready, Able" and got TechN9ne songs. Where are you scraping your data from?
artursapek on HNA great idea - I have a real need for this and loathe absolutely loathe the experience on existing sites. No idea how you turn this into a business though. A bigger, happier font…
utunga on HN
Unclear legality of lyrics and scraping
From 3 comments
looks nice and clean, but i'm pretty sure you need to licence lyrics or you may run into trouble...
jamesgagan on HNNice! Sadly, the first lyric I thought to try ("song that doesn't end") didn't work. :) The links at the upper right are so faint they almost disappear; a bit more contrast,…
JoshTriplett on HNAccording to the legal, you are not storing the lyrics. If that is the case, where are you sourcing them from? Can you give a little background on how the site works, what it…
biturd on HN
Site was down or broken at times
From 3 comments
When I go to the site (Firefox & Chrome on Linux), I can't enter any search. I see the logo, with the text 'Song Rabbit' below, and when I click on the text it disappears. But I…
aaronjg on HNIt isn't working for me. Tried Safari and Firefox.
onlawschool on HNI can't figure out how to do anything here. I click the text below the logo and it disappears, and nothing else happens.
ShardPhoenix on HN
Requests
Show snippets of matching lyrics in results
From 3 comments
How about moving the logo, search box, and nav to the side when showing lyrics so that I don't have to scroll so far down below the fold to read what I searched for? Snippets…
hammock on HNWhen showing results, how about showing a snippet of each song where the search terms appear, with the terms hilighted? Also list the name of the song and the artist. For songs…
mleonhard on HN2 things: 1) Please show the first few lines of the song under each result 2) Please stack the results like traditional <li>s - the "cloud" effect makes them very hard to scan.
gabebw on HN
Add URL state and search parameters for linking
From 2 comments
Lots of AJAX with no state in the url. Means I can't send my friends to a search results page (bad) or to a lyrics page (worse).
morsch on HNIt's great, and I'll definitely be using it! Please add a GET-param based search, e.g. http://songrabbit.com/search?q=sabaton+primo+victoria (BTW., no results :(), so that we…
TeMPOraL on HN
Larger fonts and higher contrast
From 3 comments
Please increase the font size.
cool-RR on HNhigher contrast, bigger fonts
rguzman on HNNice! Sadly, the first lyric I thought to try ("song that doesn't end") didn't work. :) The links at the upper right are so faint they almost disappear; a bit more contrast,…
JoshTriplett on HN
Show song title and artist on lyrics page
From 2 comments
A few things: 1) I just tried a query (weezer "buddy holly") that had worked a couple of days ago but didn't now (it didn't work with quotes, either). 2) I miss the back button…
fefzero on HNI like it, just needs some polishing: * Black text in dark gray boxes is hard to read * The logo takes up too much vertical screen space * You should really point to your sources…
perlgeek on HN
Questions
How will the site make money?
From 2 comments
I love what you're trying to do, but how will you monetize this? Will you pursue amazon based referrals for songs? (I'm guessing it won't add up unless you have scale) Or will…
GeneTraylor on HNSuper cool, I enjoy the clean interface. Changing the URL would be nice for linking. Lyric sites are pretty bad ATM. How do you plan to get revenue, if there are no ads?
Khroma on HN
Where does the lyric data come from?
From 2 comments
According to the legal, you are not storing the lyrics. If that is the case, where are you sourcing them from? Can you give a little background on how the site works, what it…
biturd on HNI searched for "Grizzly Bear Ready" looking for "Ready, Able" and got TechN9ne songs. Where are you scraping your data from?
artursapek on HN
Alternatives named
Instalyrics
From 2 comments
can you compare to http://instalyrics.com/ ?
riffraff on HNhttp://www.instalyrics.com exists As does http://rapgenius.com for hip hop I built my own at http://new.songvoodoo.com as well, so other sites do exist
frankdenbow on HN
Lystener
From 1 comment
http://lystener.com/ exists. There must be a reason why these clean lyrics sites aren't more prominent.
chrischen on HN
Lyrics wikia
From 1 comment
What's wrong with http://lyrics.wikia.com/Main_Page? (I really should have posted this as reply to when you mention there are no spam free lyric search engines)
HaloZero on HN
Google
From 1 comment
Don't people use google for this?
rorrr on HN