Show HN: Chirpy – Realtime data audiolization

This is great! Ambient data can be really powerful. I'd never thought about it before, but having a little sense for how many users are on my sites and what they're doing would be hugely motivating.

I once wrote a command-line program that would take the first n bytes of every file in the new directory and pipe them to sox to create a sound unique to the directory contents. It was good enough for a while that I could recognise projects I was working on by the sound of their root directories, but of course required headphones and the glitch sound was quite hard on the ears…

This is pretty fun. I think it would be better if the sounds were in some way related to the data. If you were using the web audio api you could do something nuts like hash any event text fields into synthesizer parameters so each event has a unique sound and scale the volume using numeric fields so it gets louder when your numbers get bigger.

Really cool idea though!

Weekend project? Tell more people about it. I just made something called glitch club that is sorta like "Show HN" on steroids. Show us Chirpy via video if you have the chance: http://glitchclub.com

A weekend project I created to monitor activity of an app we just launched. Chirpy generates audio melody from your realtime analytics data. You an quite literally listen to your users!

Chirpy is still in the early stages (especially the tracking modules) but really interested to see what you guys think!

This is awesome, I love the simplicity of it as well. Agree with others that more sounds would be great as well. Give some basics away as a free tier and make a higher tier that includes more sounds.

Great job!