[greenie_beans]

neat idea. i clicked on the link expecting to be able to do this as a consumer. my bet is most people seeing this on HN are consumers and not producers. would be cool to do this with a spotify user's listening history etc. tbh i don't really see the musicians i know being interested in this.

[ahmdyassr]

Thx! it doesn't hurt to have non-artists just trying it out for fun. I'm not the best developer so it helps me figure out dev/ux issues real-time and pushes me to improve the platform.

The product is quite simple, it's a (unique artist website) x (link-in-bio) that uses Spotify as a starting point for the artist data. I'm pretty sure there is a huge market for it, just need to focus on keeping it simple and build the right features. Time will only tell! but thx for the feedback.

[seeingnature]

While it doesn't hurt you, it was a frustrating waste of time. If you're showcasing something, you should be specific to your target market.

"Show HN: I made a tool to turn your Spotify artist profile into a website" would have been accurate.

Shame on me for not reading further, but someone using my Spotify profile data has so often paid off with exciting ways to see how I listen, I fell succumb.

Good luck on your site! Maybe it's useful to artists.

[ahmdyassr]

Valid point! Thx for giving it a try!

[dylan604]

I'm guessing you're thinking smaller independent artists would "need" this?

Most artist's websites are created by their management/label/etc. They'll want to have tour information, and lots of other stuff than what Spotify might know about them. There's no way to add concert images/media and personalize it. This is just a reskinning of Spotify and drastically limits usability

This seems like a nice experiment of "can I use a 3rd party API to create a new thing" which is a valid thing to be able to do. And you've made a nice little thing with it. Is it practical? If you're goal was to learn and hack together something, then mission accomplished. Job well done. Is it practical for the artist? Sorry, but I don't think it is.

[ahmdyassr]

Let's say you're not wrong! I've been in the music industry for a while and I know a lot of musicians and producers who wanna have a simple website to promote their music and social links. That's why link-in-bio services have become very popular between artists btw.

The goal of Noise is to help musicians build simple beautiful websites without too much effort (think link-in-bio service mashed with Squarespace) and I'm only using Spotify as a starting point for building the site.

I'm already working on important features to get out of the "Reskinning Spotify" phase into the next level phase. Features include connecting to a custom domain, analytics, connecting to tour platforms like bandsintown etc..

I honestly believe there is a huge market for this but time will only tell. Nevertheless, I can understand where you're coming from so thanks a lot for the feedback!

[dylan604]

With that insight, then it does sound like you might be on to something and heading down a decent path. By heading down, forging your own of course

I'm the guy in the meeting that always says you're demoing the thing too early, as it's not yet representing the full thing. Some people in the room want to constantly show progress and look for gold stars, and some people think it's premature and people will not get the full idea and think it's not what they need. Pretty obvious which group I'm in. There's probably some people in the room with other ideas too. Damned if you do, damned if you don't?

[alexanderdavide]

If you're interested in something for consumers, I recommend you try https://stats.fm/.