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deepdesaion Ask HN: Career building suggestions for a self-taught dev?

My background, in a nutshell: I graduated with a marketing degree from a school in upstate NY, was working in Manhattan at an ad agency. My US visa expired, so I moved back to India, where I was doing similar marketing strategy stuff in Mumbai, both at agencies and in-house at organizations. Brief detour in the middle where I co-founded a (now defunct) startup which was trying to build an Expedia-like portal for medical tourism. Now I'm here, figuring out what's next.

deepdesaion Show HN: iOS music player, like a virtual record collection

Actually it only works with local files (as in synced via iTunes) at the moment. Apple Music is on the roadmap, and so is Spotify!

deepdesaion Show HN: iOS music player, like a virtual record collection

If there's enough interest in this, and I have the time to do it, I'd be happy to support it! Apple Music and Spotify would probably be first though. TBH I'd rather build in FLAC support, iPhones have plenty of storage these days.

deepdesaion Show HN: iOS music player, like a virtual record collection

I've considered it! But:

- I really like the idea of one button for "everything else"

- Once you start using the app, I've found that you don't tend to search often, because you just intuitively where things are placed

- It's more fun to browse through your collection and find something you'd forgotten about instead of searching for whatever is "top of mind" at the moment

deepdesaion Show HN: iOS music player, like a virtual record collection

Don't mean to be a pushy-car-salesman-types, but I think you should take it for a test drive – your experience might surprise you. One of my explicit goals in designing the app was to get you OUT of the app ASAP, since I don't give a damn about "engagement". Today, the stock iOS music app seems too fiddly to me...

deepdesaion Show HN: iOS music player, like a virtual record collection

TBH I didn't even realize what I was showing when I recorded the screencast, but I find it painful to listen to mass-manufactured crap :)

deepdesaion Show HN: iOS music player, like a virtual record collection

If you just wanna get your hands on it, it's already quite stable! And you can totally be an IMproper beta tester :)

deepdesaion Show HN: iOS music player, like a virtual record collection

True iPad support is on the roadmap! PS: I also own an iPad, so this is absolutely going to happen at some point.

deepdesaion Show HN: iOS music player, like a virtual record collection

Apple Music support is absolutely on the roadmap, and so is iPad support! If you haven't already, do send me an email. TestFlight is Apple's platform for doing beta testing, it's super straightforward.

deepdesaion Show HN: iOS music player, like a virtual record collection

Apple Music support is on the roadmap!

deepdesaion Show HN: iOS music player, like a virtual record collection

Thank you, kind stranger on the internet! :) I actually only recently started learning how to code, this is my first project.