Blynde
Consumer and social
music streaming
SHOW HN2013
118points
92comments
#185of 1,739 in 2013
Top 11%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
19 positive, 13 neutral or asking, 10 mixed, 16 critical, out of 58 comments about the project. Thread score +0.14.
Design: 10 for, 3 againstExecution: 1 for, 10 againstIdea: 7 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Clean, polished, minimal UI
From 4 comments
Really great piece of work. UI is neatly polished. Youtube's recommendation list sucks. They only auto-play your lists not their recommendation lists. That sucks even more. It…
mandeepj on HNThe scroll bar is there, but it's black. I agree that you should do something with that. Other than the minor issues this whole project is pretty perfect. It works exactly as I…
scrapcode on HNFantastic - I mainly use YouTube for music and this is way, way better than the standard YT interface in almost every possible respect. Cavils: I would like to sign in with my…
anigbrowl on HNAs others have said it's a nice interface. Good job!
grizzy on HN
Loads HD and playlist features well
From 1 comment
Really nice work. I love that the HD button stays active and loads all videos in HD. I also like the arrows shortcuts for next and previous video. Makes it much easier to skip…
Amarandei on HN
Objections
Black screen or failure when Flash is click-to-play or disabled
From 4 comments
Just a black screen with a black cloud for me.. Am I supposed to click something?
phy6 on HNSame here. I've got 'click-to-play' enabled - flash doesn't start running until I click on the flash object - and it looks like you've cleverly hidden it so there's no object for…
fragmede on HNSame here, and like fragmede I've got click-to-play enabled as well. I'm on Chrome stable, Win 7x64
lowboy on HNSame problem here. When I read in the comments that it used YouTube, I expected it to support YouTube's HTML5 player.
JoshTriplett on HN
Name is hard to remember
From 1 comment
I love the app. I dislike its current name. Remembering that/typing it correctly will be hard.
teddyknox on HN
Search returns wrong or unrelated results
From 2 comments
Fantastic - I mainly use YouTube for music and this is way, way better than the standard YT interface in almost every possible respect. Cavils: I would like to sign in with my…
anigbrowl on HNOh, also you might want to cross-reference search results with Youtube. For example, I like a technoa rtist called Orion, so I search for a favorite track using 'orion cynabs'.…
anigbrowl on HN
Cannot easily get the YouTube link of the current video
From 1 comment
A big issue for me: There is no obvious way to get the link for the youtube video that's currently playing.
Mithaldu on HN
Requests
Custom playlists
From 2 comments
Great job! Seen tons of similar services, but this is really polished. I already signed up, but was looking for a way to create my own playlists. I'd use this all the time if it…
tixzdk on HNWill you post this on your github profile soon? Would love to see how you approached this. A suggestion is to be able to search for playlists to.
einarlove on HN
SoundCloud support
From 1 comment
Reminds me of http://8tracks.com/ -- you should definitely add SoundCloud support. Also you should let people make their own playlists/vote on playlists/etc. Cool idea. I'm not…
dvt on HN
Last.fm scrobbling
From 1 comment
Really only to be able to scrobble the tracks you listen too. For example other music services (Grooveshark / Hypem) let you connect your account and keep track of everything you…
hemmer on HN
Genre or channel discovery
From 2 comments
This is the coolest thing I've seen on HN all month! Discovering stuff by genre or even a suggestion feature would make this even better. Great work!
shitlord on HNReally great piece of work. UI is neatly polished. Youtube's recommendation list sucks. They only auto-play your lists not their recommendation lists. That sucks even more. It…
mandeepj on HN
Questions
How was it built and what is the tech stack
From 1 comment
Really great piece of work. UI is neatly polished. Youtube's recommendation list sucks. They only auto-play your lists not their recommendation lists. That sucks even more. It…
mandeepj on HN
How long it took to build
From 1 comment
Curious. How long did it take you to build this?
gnus on HN
Alternatives named
8tracks
From 1 comment
Reminds me of http://8tracks.com/ -- you should definitely add SoundCloud support. Also you should let people make their own playlists/vote on playlists/etc. Cool idea. I'm not…
dvt on HN
Vevo music player
From 1 comment
maybe he could sell it to websites that wants to show their youtube channel in a cool way, vevo has somehting similar www.vevo.com
genofon on HN
SounDojo
From 1 comment
This is something similar to another project called SounDojo (http://soundojo.com/webapp/)
tunnuz on HN
youfm.org
From 1 comment
Someone showed a similar service a few months back: youfm.org But great job on the front end development. The UI is slick.
glitch273 on HN
Groove Shark
From 1 comment
Is awesome, as everyone has said. It's like minimal groove shark... Just a few minutes ago I was thinking of building something over groove shark to get a similar minimalistic…
hardwaresofton on HN