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I love the Idea, but even spotify needs over 20 attemps to show me one song I don't know and like.

My goal is to hopefully cut down on that number. I hope you'll like all the songs. But if you don't like it you can always try tomorrow. That's the fun :)

Even if you don't like it, at least you'll get woken up :)

How would you have any clue about my taste (if not an even better one than spotify)?

I don't. I just pick the songs I like from what the artists submit. Or I reach out to the artist directly to get their permission to feature it. Hopefully, you'll like them too. Everyone listens to the same song for a 24 hour period. Most of the music is EDM.

That sounds like it might be difficult to sustain, but this kind of hand curation is the surest and easiest way to consistent quality. Thanks for doing it!

You might want to considering billing this as part of the product's description. My biggest question coming in was how the music was selected because I wanted to know if there was some mechanism to avoid genres that I'm sure to hate. I had to come here to find my answer.

I'm looking forward to trying out Jolt tomorrow.

It's my pleasure. That's true. But it's "only" 365 songs a year. I have no issues curating the content as long as people are using and enjoying the app. You have a good point, I need to write a better description of the features of the app. Luckily, a lot of artists are really excited to have the opportunity to get featured, so it's been relatively easy to find new music to play.

I really hope you enjoy using it.

make the "undiscovered artists" a selling point. It's certainly "music you never heard before". In any case some example songs might be nice.

That's actually a good idea. I will definitely need to update the description to reflect that. Thanks for the feedback :)

This, I think, is the most important feature off the app, and should be the first paragraph of the value proposition.

Waking up to a random new song every morning is not very appealing (many alarm clock apps can do that) but knowing that the song is manually selected, picked to be suitable for waking up, and knowing that every other user of the app will wake up to the same song on that day, makes it infinitely more interesting.

Waking up to a song I dont like I think is more unpleasant than an alarm. Is there anyway you can tap into Spotify, Pandora or Youtube api?

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