Show HN: Top forty hottest songs everyday from Twitter

by rezbull • 15 years ago

32 14 15 years ago

This is really neat. Potentially a huge time suck. Well done.

MrSourz2• 15 years ago

I like it as it doesn't give you too many things to do on the site (where I find the real distraction comes from) and just does things for me and looks good.

thigbee2• 15 years ago

Very cool. I'm listening to it right now. But how much variation is there from day to day? Like if I go back tomorrow, will the songs all be the same? In a week?

rezbull3• 15 years ago

That's a good point. So far most of the top songs just shuffle between each other. New songs start appearing towards the bottom of the list. Maybe a "random" feature could help with this?

thigbee2• 15 years ago

Yeah, a random feature would be nice to provide some variety. And maybe a "trending" or "movers and shakers" list for songs that aren't necessarily in the top 40 but are still getting buzz on Twitter.

arjungupta2• 15 years ago

Great work

namank2• 15 years ago

Nice! Now just publish it as an Android app and we are good to go.

tjpannu• 15 years ago

Do you aggregate the number of times a song is shared/mentioned on Twitter each day?

rezbull3• 15 years ago

We are using Twitter's Streaming API and go through tweets as they come in. Then we figure out the song/artist information and then aggregate that at the end of each day.

sidjha• 15 years ago

Really nice work. While I know you guys are going for the top 40 songs, but it would be even more awesome if there was more selection - perhaps if I kept scrolling down, it would load even more songs ranked 41, 42 and so on.

One convenient addition could also be a big search box at the top that gives me access to "archives", so that I can still listen to the older songs even when they go out of the top 40 list.

I love the UI!

namank2• 15 years ago

Agreed - the UI is pretty amazing!

I especially like how the video plays in the header while rest of the page selection remains the same. This way, I can go back and play my #2 choice after my #1 choice has finished without having to look for it, I already know where the #2 choice is.

Youtube is horrible at this. If you don't make a playlist, you have to click back and hope it still recommends the same videos as the last time you were on that page.

arjungupta2• 15 years ago

Can you add an option for scrolling through songs with the [left] & [right] arrow keys + make [Esc] to close the YouTube window, kind of like what Facebook does with the photo theater viewer

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