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I've copied the same model at https://volt.fm and it's been amazingly effective.

I let users generate nice images from their top artists and songs for sharing on social media. And every time some big account on Twitter uses that to share their stats, it goes viral and brings in a lot of new users. In one occasion I had 24k new users in just two days.

soheilproon Behind the Spotify Wrapped API scenes

There's also this: https://www.githubtrends.io/wrapped

soheilproon Behind the Spotify Wrapped API scenes

You can do that with volt.fm. Here's my profile: https://volt.fm/soheilpro

Disclaimer: I've built this.

soheilproon Ask HN: Why is the Spotify UX so horrible?

Shameless plug: You can use https://volt.fm to search Spotify music by genre.

Just use the search bar or browse artists/tracks/users to discover new genres.

soheilproon Show HN: Relative Bookmarks Browser Extension

Unrelated to this, but is there any extension that lets you easily switch between different instances of a website?

Like dev.example.com/about and example.com/about?

soheilproon Ask HN: Anyone else tired of all your music?

You can use https://volt.fm to check out the profiles of people who listen to your favorite artists and genres and see what other music they listen to.

You can even save their top songs as an auto-updating playlist. It's a great way to discover new music.

soheilproon What software engineers should know about search (2017)

That's not always true.

I run https://volt.fm and search is one of the most used features. If it didn't have built-in search, I doubt any of the users would use Google instead to find the artists/songs they were looking for.

soheilproon Ask HN: What services do you pay for every month?

Apple Music and Spotify at the same time?

soheilproon Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

https://volt.fm

- TypeScript / Node / Express

- PostgreSQL / RabbitMQ

- HTML / Tailwind CSS / Vanilla JS

- Hosted on two DigitalOcean droplets

- Deployed as Docker

- AWS SES for sending emails

soheilproon Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust

I meant rate limits. Edited my original comment.

soheilproon Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust

This is great, but the sad truth is that unofficial clients like this can never grow big and support more than a few thousand users, given how ridiculously low Spotify API's rate limits are.

My project https://volt.fm has 100k+ users now and I'm really struggling with the Spotify API.

soheilproon Ask HN: Music streaming services which cann be browsed by newest uploads?

Thank you.

I'll soon let you see all the playlists that are related to a particular genre instead of the newly indexed ones.

soheilproon Ask HN: Music streaming services which cann be browsed by newest uploads?

You can use https://volt.fm to search and browse Spotify genres.

Disclaimer: I'm building this.

soheilproon An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up

command && say done

soheilproon Ask HN: Is it just me, or is the inbox is the worst place for newsletters?

Same here.

soheilproon Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server

I've always wanted SmarterMail for Linux. Maddy seems to be exactly that. I’ll definitely check it out.

soheilproon Spotify acquires Podz, a podcast discovery platform

The lyrics feature is only available in 26 countries: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/30/21307984/spotify-real-tim...

soheilproon Call it a comeback: Turntable.fm raises $7.5M

The biggest difference is that volt.fm supports playlists and as I mentioned, the upcoming feed feature for sharing music with a group of people.

soheilproon Call it a comeback: Turntable.fm raises $7.5M

I'm really sorry if my post was irrelevant.

soheilproon Call it a comeback: Turntable.fm raises $7.5M

For anyone who's interested I'm currently building a few social features for Spotify at https://volt.fm.

You can already create a profile and share and compare your stats with your friends. You also get a nice page for your playlists (see https://volt.fm/playlist/x48gzqnr2xoctxu1).

I'm now looking for beta testers for the next big feature that lets you share music (and play what's shared with you) right within the Spotify apps. Let me know if you want to join the list.

soheilproon Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

I've built a few over the years:

- https://volt.fm - See, share and compare your Spotify stats

- https://postsheet.com - Send emails to contacts in a Google Sheets or Airtable document

- https://pikaso.me - Screenshots Twitter for sharing on Instagram

- https://github.com/soheilpro/zsh-vi-search - Adds support for searching the current line (in normal vi mode) to zsh

- https://github.com/soheilpro/catj - A better way to display JSON files

- https://github.com/soheilpro/mann - Never forget command line options again

- https://github.com/soheilpro/pgcmd - Non-interactive PostgreSQL query tool

- https://github.com/soheilpro/sqlmon - Collect events from SQL Server and save them to Elasticsearch

- https://github.com/soheilpro/sqltop - Find the most resource consuming SQL Server queries

- https://github.com/soheilpro/mon - Painless performance monitoring for Windows

- https://github.com/soheilpro/Ledger - Interactive CLI double-entry accounting

soheilproon Ask HN: How many projects do you work on at a time?

Three at the moment:

https://pikaso.me https://postsheet.com https://volt.fm

soheilproon How to Learn Unix Tools

Shameless plug: mann helps your remember command line args.

https://github.com/soheilpro/mann

soheilproon Ask HN: Platform for Independent Artists

Is he on Spotify? I can promote his music on https://volt.fm.

soheilproon Ahoyo – Build a single-page online presence

Shameless plug: If you want something similar for your Spotify profile, you can try https://volt.fm

soheilproon Spotify Apps Suck

Spotify's recommendations were really good at the beginning. But now it's just meh. I haven't found anything interesting in Discover Weekly for months.

That wasn't in my initial plan, but I'm considering adding user recommendations to https://volt.fm. Something like Twitter, but for sharing music with your friends.

soheilproon Show HN: See, compare and share your Spotify stats

Hey everyone!

I'm building volt.fm to add some missing social features to Spotify. Love to hear your feedback.

Here's my profile: https://volt.fm/soheilpro

soheilproon Every Noise at Once

This is interesting. I'm exploring ways to add music discoverability to https://volt.fm and this could help.

soheilproon The Pretty JSON Revolution

Another way to display JSON files in a more readable format is catj (https://github.com/soheilpro/catj)