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oscarn

26 karma · joined June 18, 2013

Software Engineering student at Chalmers, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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oscarn··on Show HN: The Artist Hunt – An intuitive way to discover music
I guess an about page is on the todo list for 1.0 :)

We are using the Spotify Web API for everything: music (nicely cut 30s previews of songs), artist relations, images.

oscarn··on Show HN: The Artist Hunt – An intuitive way to discover music
Super interesting feedback, huge thanks.

Some of the things you mention are actually relics from when this was a game, that limited how you can browse. (The initial idea was a game where you browsed as fast (ie few clicks) as possible from one artist to the other, but the feedback we got indicated that the discovery part was much more interesting)

But then again, we definitely get lost in our own (power user) perspective. We were dead set on using arrow keys as main browsing technique to start with, to get that mechanical and low friction feel. Not great for most users though, probably.

oscarn··on Show HN: The Artist Hunt – An intuitive way to discover music
You are right, intuitive is not the right word. Mechanical and low friction (after a while) though.
oscarn··on Show HN: The Artist Hunt – An intuitive way to discover music
Thanks for the feedback everyone! Pushing the latest adjustments to heroku (yay for Meteor.js support!) as we speak.