Show HN: Explore related artists on spotify through a network of nodes

Very cool! Couple thoughts - 1. I noticed some artists get added a second time as the network expands, so some de-duplication may be needed? 2. It could be interesting to (optionally) scale the node size or border width with respect to the node degree.. In particular for the nodes that were clicked on (and thus, have their degrees inflated).. this way it would be easy to spot artists that have a lot of connections just based on who else is currently displayed.

I want the same but for twitter. I find twitter an important news gathering source for my daily activity, but it's biased. There's definitely a bubble in my feed. I'd love to explore other bubbles. Perhaps rather than having music as preview, it can have the "most influential tweets" one can quickly look at. Purpose is to find other relevant and reputable feeds to follow.

How are the relationships determined? Is do those just come directly from the Spotify API? Is there some threshold user here to determine which ones show?

I ask because poking around I noticed what I thought were some strange absences, such as one band not showing a relationship to other bands that share members.

This is awesome. It seems like it provides the best info if I search for an artist I know, then click two more artist I know. Then I get a grouping of artists inside a triangle that are similar to those three, most of which I haven't heard of.

This is neat! It gets a bit too cluttered when I'm just trying to look at new artists though, maybe make a click listen to the artist, but maybe double click to 'expand' them? Good stuff either way!

Very cool! Couple quick thoughts:

1. I noticed some artists get added multiple times, so some deduplication may be needed. 2. Perhaps you could (optionally) scale the node sizes or border widths with their degrees?

Suggestion: Put a sentence at the top, or at least a label saying to enter an artist name.

Would make this easier to send to other people, which I'm doing right now because it's really awesome.

Can make it play on hover?

Right now I have to click a related artist before I can decide if I like him so I already have his nodes pop out even if I don't like him.

Is the code open source? It looks like there are a bunch of web service calls in the backend that sit on top of the Spotify API.

Really cool, I bookmarked it!

I hit random several times. 3 of the artists had dollar signs in their name. 2 of them had more than one. There’s nothing wrong with dollar signs but man does that feel cliche.