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Trying it now and it seems really nice! I wish you had a desktop/web version, and it would be my daily background radio while I work all day. Spotify's Discover Weekly playlists are nice enough, but they barely carry me through the first 1-2 days, and then it gets pretty repetitive.

It would also work really well as an Alexa skill, especially with Rad's commentary.

What did you write the apps in?

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Yep, the idea is that the stream of music it plays is both time appropriate and always relatively fresh. You can tune its selection algo too with the thumbs up or down (long pressing on either for more fine controls).

Web is due out in the next 2 weeks. Alexa skill has been on the roadmap forever as I've always seen smart speakers as like the place it makes the most sense.

The apps are Svelte based with capacitor (planning on switching to Tauri when that gets proper mobile support) and some custom plugins for the native stuff. It was a native iOS app but got a full rewrite to support Android and iOS with the web planned as a fast follow.

Very cool! Joined your Discord server. Even if you don't want to monetize it right now, you should set up a Patreon or something like that, and at least let people chip in on your server costs.

It would be a very cool community-supported smart radio service :)

The app has a built-in link to 'Buy me a coffee' (which actually does cover my coffee expenses along with some of the hosting costs!)

I'm quite keen to get a bigger community of people contributing ideas and maybe give me the push to move away from Spotify.

Eventually, swathes of the service could go open source too if the community wanted it.

Thanks for joining the discord!

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