The Rap Test
Games
music quiz game
SHOW HN2014
141points
76comments
#180of 2,272 in 2014
Top 8%of 2014 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
19 positive, 25 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 10 critical, out of 56 comments about the project. Thread score +0.20.
Execution: 4 for, 5 againstDesign: 6 for, 1 againstIdea: 4 for, 1 againstPerformance: 3 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun, addictive quiz with a clean UI
From 4 comments
Very nice UI. Hope you add some old school stuff in there! I went ok on the Kendrick Lamarr test, but would rock with A Tribe Called Quest.
lucasnemeth on HNI just lost 15 minutes of my life becoming a God of Eminem. Really nice UI, was really smooth, no complaints, nice work.
iDemonix on HNGreat design, very entertaining, and you put a big smile on my face. Thank you for sharing!
beamatronic on HNThis is really fun. Well done :)
ultimatedelman on HN
Introduced listeners to new songs
From 2 comments
Cool concept, turned me on to some songs I've never heard before.
niix on HNExcellent job. I don't have a single complaint. It's very fun, the GIFs are great, and best of all it's extremely fast. Considering that it is audio and image heavy I don't know…
habosa on HN
Objections
Music does not play with ad-blocker on
From 1 comment
If you are wondering why the music isn't playing, disable/pause ad-block and it'll work. At least that did the trick for me.
dewey on HN
Missing old-school rap and other artists
From 3 comments
Very nice UI. Hope you add some old school stuff in there! I went ok on the Kendrick Lamarr test, but would rock with A Tribe Called Quest.
lucasnemeth on HNYour comment would be more constructive if it requested some "real artists" by name... For what it's worth, my own requests would be (in no particular order) Immortal Technique,…
Jach on HNstupid. i only know who kanye & eminem is, never heard of the others and i've been listening to hip-hop all my life. although, it's not this pop hip-hop that's currently in…
n0body on HN
Pop-up locks browser and page leaves hard to close
From 2 comments
I tried to navigate away from the page in the middle of the song in Chrome and got a warning popup about leaving the page that was completely uncloseable by clicking on either…
diego on HNI could not get out of the pop up in any way, it locked my browser entirely.
diego on HN
Requests
Add old-school rap and more artists
From 4 comments
Very nice UI. Hope you add some old school stuff in there! I went ok on the Kendrick Lamarr test, but would rock with A Tribe Called Quest.
lucasnemeth on HNRespect, amazing UI! It would be great to know how you made this. Now you just need to add some old-school rap :-)
anishkothari on HNYour comment would be more constructive if it requested some "real artists" by name... For what it's worth, my own requests would be (in no particular order) Immortal Technique,…
Jach on HNfair enough. in no order, immortal technique, the coup, pete rock & c.l. smooth, de la soul, xzibit, the goats, jedi mind tricks, artifacts, redman, big daddy kane, black moon,…
n0body on HN
Add instructions on the home page
From 1 comment
You should include some basic instructions on the home page because it took me a while to figure out what this exactly did. I went to the Eminem page and thought I had to shade…
BlackJack on HN
Show individual leaderboards
From 2 comments
It would be nice to see the individual test leaderboards.
tcwatrous on HNYeah, it tells me I'm #2 on the Eminem board but I can't seem to find a link to it
joshstrange on HN
Questions
How was the site built
From 1 comment
Respect, amazing UI! It would be great to know how you made this. Now you just need to add some old-school rap :-)
anishkothari on HN
Is the NSFW album cover a concern
From 2 comments
Really needs a NSFW warning.
mathgeek on HNThat's just the album cover for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. It wont unblur if you're worried about that
sehr on HN
Alternatives named
SongPop
From 1 comment
Pretty cool. Reminds me of SongPop which was a hit for a while (basically put this into a competitive game with many categories). Nice work! I tried doing a startup based on…
frankdenbow on HN
binb
From 1 comment
Very funny and well done. Reminds me of http://binb.nodejitsu.com
swineflu on HN