Ask HN: So I just bought Rap.io What should I build there?

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by smallegan • 15 years ago

5 12 15 years ago

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I am feeling like a fun weekend project and just picked up a cool domain (rap.io), please suggest ideas for what I should build. The one with the most votes is what I'll build!

yakto2• 15 years ago

Collaborative rap lyric writing, one line at a time.

slater• 15 years ago

Second post will be a line ending in "orange", and he'll be forced to close the site.

yakto2• 15 years ago

I can rhyme wit dat, I can sing and re-arrange...

arctangent• 15 years ago

Reference for those who don't get it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(word)#Rhyme

kersny• 15 years ago

I could see this going insanely viral. For monetization, once a song is done do crowd-funded bounties for the best song/music video.

veb• 15 years ago

I did something like this when I was drunk, basically you paste in the lyrics of a song, and there's two text-boxes for choosing a word you want to change, and then the word you want to change.

i.e. I'm on a boat (Lonely Island) could be: I'm on a cow/goat/tree/dog

I posted the link here (when I was still under the influence) and it had XSS in it (I guess you don't care about security when you're drunk!), so when I woke up the next day I scrapped it. I'm not sure how I came up with the domain name, either: wonklyrics.com

ecommando• 15 years ago

It's rap.. Thus English is not a requiement. They'll just invent a NEW word that demeans women, like "whore-ange".

KevBurnsJr• 15 years ago

Google Beatbox?

http://translate.google.com/#de|de|pv%20zk%20pv%20pv%20zk%20...

anujkk• 15 years ago

Here is my idea. Develop a social site where users can submit the audio/video/text of their rap and others will rate/review/up-down vote them. You can allow contributors to release their rap as open source or sell them online.

Use FB/Twitter API to add social features and use Youtube API for video.

awnstudio• 15 years ago

make it an alias for http://piffhop.com, which does the same thing mentioned above

WillyF• 15 years ago

I'd be wary of how people pronounce your domain name. My first instinct is to say RAPE-EE-OH. That obviously has a bad connotation.

I think as long as it's clear that it's a rap site, you'll be ok though.

smallegan• 15 years ago

Or it could make for a great xxx domain...I hadn't even tried pronouncing it like that!

Ask HN: So I just bought Rap.io What should I build there?

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