ColorHits

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music color search

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51points
19comments
#490of 1,739 in 2013
Top 29%of 2013 by points

How HN took it

LovedMost comments that take a side are positive

8 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 0 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score +0.61.

Design: 4 for, 0 againstExecution: 2 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Fun, simple, well implemented

    From 4 comments
    • It makes me happy when this sort of fun, simple app gets voted up to the front page of HN. It reminds me that my apps don't need to do a million different things but that only a…
      tehaaron on HN
    • Very cool toy/tool, good implementation too
      c54 on HN
    • This is great.
      jfb on HN
    • very cool could you up the amount of albums that show up per page? or have an endless page option?
      carpe171 on HN
  • Interesting color-based album discovery

    From 2 comments
    • Fantastic job. The darkest of albums. http://colorhits.com/album/407270/This+Is+Spinal+Tap
      duggieawesome on HN
    • This thing is just begging for a rainbow where you hover over various points of the rainbow and it pops up with a relevant album. If you want to take this one step further, I'd…
      jmduke on HN

Objections

  • Searching by remembered cover colors gave poor results

    From 1 comment
    • it's very good fun, but I think it needs some tweaking. I tried finding albums by the colours I remember of their covers and failed miserably. So then tried checking the album…
      aardvark179 on HN

Requests

  • Endless scrolling or more albums per page

    From 2 comments
    • very cool could you up the amount of albums that show up per page? or have an endless page option?
      carpe171 on HN
    • Definitely, endless scrolling will probably be added in an upcoming release.
      mbarrett on HN
  • Rainbow hover UI to pick albums

    From 1 comment
    • This thing is just begging for a rainbow where you hover over various points of the rainbow and it pops up with a relevant album. If you want to take this one step further, I'd…
      jmduke on HN
  • Chrome extension matching page colors to albums

    From 1 comment
    • This thing is just begging for a rainbow where you hover over various points of the rainbow and it pops up with a relevant album. If you want to take this one step further, I'd…
      jmduke on HN

Questions

  • Which algorithm or library extracts album colors

    From 1 comment
    • Great work. I'm working on palette determination on a project, so I'm curious- which algorithm/library did you use to parse the album covers?
      rsgong on HN
  • How the color search is implemented

    From 1 comment
    • Very cool! :-) I built a similar search by color tool at 99designs and wrote a bit about how it works here: http://99designs.com/tech-blog/blog/2012/08/02/color-explorer/ TL;DR…
      dhotson on HN

Alternatives named

  • 99designs color explorer using R-trees

    From 1 comment
    • Very cool! :-) I built a similar search by color tool at 99designs and wrote a bit about how it works here: http://99designs.com/tech-blog/blog/2012/08/02/color-explorer/ TL;DR…
      dhotson on HN
  • TinEye Multicolr Flickr color search

    From 1 comment
    • Very cool tool! reminds me of this flickr color search http://labs.tineye.com/multicolr/#colors=e73843,6abbd3,e84b6e;weights=33,34,33;
      lalos on HN

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