Former Google engineer builds Turntable clone

http://evolver.fm/2011/08/02/former-google-engineer-builds-turntable-fm-clone-rolling-fm/

by kraymer • 15 years ago

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mirrorskin2• 15 years ago

Why build a clone instead of creating something original? Oh, it's a “social media advertising startup” ... $$$

Now the Grupon hype is over, people start copying other things. I think it's time for some more original concepts than just clones, copies and meetoos.

macrael• 15 years ago

Truly bizarre. A straight up clone of the entire service, no detail too small to be copied. Id hoped to find that the developers had tried something new with the format. I'd love to see a similar service where everyone in the room somehow collaborates on the playlist rather than requiring 5 people to take turns picking one song.

kajecounterhack• 15 years ago

We did something of the sort for a hack day project (warning: completely hacked) -- https://github.com/samliu/wsoh

Building your own turntable.fm is surprisingly simple when you use NowJS. Oh also sorry my code hardcodes a few urls (e.g the nowjs library to my server in the index), I haven't gotten around to making the repo code clean for a real release.

chrischen• 15 years ago

Well the concept is still new and not everyone knows about it. They may be similar right now, butin the race for users, they will still have to add new features and changes to out-compete each other.

ch0wn• 15 years ago

There's one noticeable difference for me: I can use it, living outside the US.

mirrorskin2• 15 years ago

Oh, give it some weeks to flourish before RIAA will strike. And I bet they will.

superted• 15 years ago

Ah, the "German Copy/Paste" move taken to perfection (http://techcrunch.com/2007/05/14/web-2-in-germany-copy-paste...). IMHO, there is not shame in being inspired by other services or products and to copy features, but blatantly copying someone straight up feels dishonest.

alex1• 15 years ago

Interesting HTML comments from the source after you log in with Facebook:

    <!--25 people. 3 Google, 2 Columbia, 2 NYU, 10 New Yorkers ; tribe designation...? --> 

    <!-- concept of the crowd : what the crowd looks like: 'oh a bunch of old people in this restaurant... fuck that'. oh mostly college-age kids who go to NYU -->

adrianwaj• 15 years ago

The next step is to open-source it.

Former Google engineer builds Turntable clone

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