I made a game that's a mix of Wordle and Dixit for music
urbanpoll.com
urbanpoll.com
Background - My partner used to manage a similar game at work as a team-bonding activity. They would set a music topic for the week, and then everyone would add some songs to a Spotify list. Then, once everyone had suggested a song, they would vote for the top 3 songs and compete amongst one another. It was a bit time-consuming to manage and count the votes, though. I thought - yeah, that's cool, and it could be applied to many types of companies. One day I should build something similar and start selling it to tech companies. A year later, more or less, I found the time to come up with an MVP and present it to some of my friends. Most people that like music love it and have been taking part for a few weeks or a month at least. After several iterations and feedback-based adjustments, I've now "upgraded" the project from MVP to "Beta" and would be happy to have more people onboard.
What I built - Urban DJ is the main stage where everyone can take part. You rate today's 5 songs (from 1-5) and then nominate one song on the next round's topic & suggest the topic after that. Your goal is to guess the community's vote. The more your vote matches the public, the more points you make. For example, if you position Song A as number 2, and 42% of the community has voted the same way - you earn - 42 points. It's an entertaining way to come up with "the best" songs on a given topic. I promise you that you will have fun if you love or know music. At the end of the day, as long as there are 5 persons playing the game - it is refreshed every day. The tech stack is Ruby on Rails + Turbo (hot-wired) & some Alpine JS.
What's next - Release the same mechanics into different verticals - Movies & TV Series, Books, Restaurants. After that, I will focus on the business element - allowing people to set up private music stages to play with their group of friends, classmates, and colleagues. There could be a one-off fee or a monthly subscription for companies... I haven't decided yet.
My appeal - Please give it a go for a few days share your feedback on the process. I believe it should be able to be further simplified.