Show HN: Rappad - Write better lyrics

by overload119 • 13 years ago

134 62 13 years ago

jedanbik2• 13 years ago

I really like the Freestyle feature, but the Beat control and Shuffle options aren’t working for me in the latest Firefox 20.0 on OS X 10.6.8.

overload11910• 13 years ago

Hmm, it's just a standard Flash embed. I wonder if maybe you have the latest version of Flash?

jedanbik2• 13 years ago

You were right about my Flash being out of date. I upgraded, and now it kind of works. A video loads, but it only plays if I click on the link that takes me to Youtube in a new window or tab.

Even if that’s a tiny bit inconvenient, it’s still neat that I can write one little rhyme about probabilistic estimators, click Freestyle 16 times, and then hear a song about buying whores from a store, going to war, poverty, prison time, heartbreak and exercise. All to the beat of “Hate it or Love it”, by The Game. Or maybe instead to the beat of “You Don’t Know My Name”, by Alicia Keys.

amarbirchahal• 13 years ago

Would love to have this build full raps that have a chorus and verses. For example - 16 bars and then a catchy hook. Really cool start, though.

dsschnau• 13 years ago

Welp you made exactly what I was trying to make. Way to go!

overload11910• 13 years ago

If you'd like to help, send me a note!

SiliconAlley• 13 years ago

I would love to help out with this. It's an area of deep personal interest for me. I've got homepage/contact links in my hn profile. I'll write in a bit.

WiseWeasel2• 13 years ago

"Write lyrics better" would be a better tagline than "write better lyrics", which could be taken as an insult.

overload11910• 13 years ago

I think your right! I will change it!

yahelc• 13 years ago

What are you using for syllable counting?

marcusestes• 13 years ago

I disagree. "Write better lyrics" cuts right to the emotional need. I want to write better lyrics. "Write lyrics better," without further context, could refer to penmanship. It's a less impactful phrasing.

WiseWeasel2• 13 years ago

"Write better lyrics" implies your lyrics are in need of improvement. I'll let you be the one to tell your favorite artist that they can write better lyrics with RapPad.

bionsuba• 13 years ago

Hey, I saw you show this off at MHacks and I was deeply impressed with you then and to see that you have taken it even further is great. Good job and hopefully have a great product launch!

Also, I have a suggestion. You are already using emails as ids, why not use Persona?

overload11910• 13 years ago

Emails are easier to setup in devise. Would love to Persona, and other social logins, just a matter of time!

zackbloom• 13 years ago

The "try hovering over the numbers on the side" bit is odd to me, if I'm going through the intro, I know what those numbers are. I ended up hovering over them expecting to get more details, and just got a label.

scottoller• 13 years ago

This is awesome! The drake video on the landing page was confusing/pointless to me, and I agree with zackbloom's comment about hovering over the numbers on the side. Other than that, really great idea & execution.

overload11910• 13 years ago

Yeah, just a placeholder for now until I get a real video there.

I agree about the syllables hover thing. Thanks for the feedback!

clark-kent• 13 years ago

Yes I found the homepage confusing, and almost clicked away. I think this should be the homepage: http://rappad.co/editor. Just my opinion. I love the site. Nice work.

alexgodin• 13 years ago

This is awesome! Why is Drake on the homepage?

rkuykendall-com• 13 years ago

Yeah, I was halfway through the video waiting for some overlay of the actual service or... something.

overload11910• 13 years ago

Placeholder video :(

chatmasta• 13 years ago

Awesome! This is fun. Any plans to introduce rudimentary recording capabilities?

overload11910• 13 years ago

Yes! Debating on whether it should be video uploads or straight up in-page audio recording.

habosa• 13 years ago

In page for sure. Will invite way more spontaneous recordings. Maybe try to mix in the background beat so the recordings sound like songs?

Johnyma22• 13 years ago

Integrate Etherpad, give users the ability to access old revisions and collaborate on rhymes

orangethirty3• 13 years ago

Now, that is fun. Good job.

    To all my homies
    commenting in hacker news
    I just brought a little rhyme
    that it helped me do
    Cause when I bust all around
    even PG looks
    and every hacker here says
    Go orange go.

    And as I type this
    I dont know what else to do
   so give me a mic
   and Ill show you how its done
   Its not about being the best
   or simply two plus two
   but being a *killa*
   when it comes
   to committing code.

   So check out my github
   and star a  thing or two
   plus fork my repos
   but hey, no pycon stuff
   And as I finish up rhymes
   and downvotes creep
   I say hola to my peeps
   and go back to work.

Peace.

simba-hiiipower• 13 years ago

dope.

DigitalSea• 13 years ago

MC Orangethirty has a nice ring to it.

orangethirty3• 13 years ago

You may be onto something.

smallegan2• 13 years ago

Great job! I love this and I'd love to collaborate, I own rap.io and want to build something very similar but with more of a social twist. Hit me up if you are interested in talking. E-mail's in my profile.

trent_91• 13 years ago

I love this sort of thing. I remember playing with patternsketch.com with some friends. It's the future!

gailees2• 13 years ago

I saw this hack at MHacks. Its amazing -- future of rap.

PavlovsCat• 13 years ago

fuck rap, reclaim hip hop ^^

fyrabanks• 13 years ago

"fuck this rap shit, i listen to classical"

endtime2• 13 years ago

Freestyle is the best part. You can generate an entire (gibberish) rap song from one line:

What light through yonder window breaks?

To be great, i'm giving it all it takes

Lookin' at me, now they know my face

Driving my car to a foreign place

This is no trial, this a closed case

I ain't looking in her eyes but her face

Prps cover my eight’s, uhh, lemme switch my pace

Pluck ya ace, take ya girl, fuck her face

NewAccnt• 13 years ago

Looks like it's taking lines from other songs that match a certain algorithm. There is already 2 other songs with the line "This is no trial, this a closed case" on rapgenious.com plus actual production songs on lyric databases with the same line.

endtime2• 13 years ago

That was my assumption, too. I just meant it's gibberish in the sense that the lines aren't semantically related to each other.

smallegan2• 13 years ago

It tells you which song it takes the line from as it does it.

vowelless• 13 years ago

Oh man, I would love to see this integrated with http://www.rhymezone.com/. Awesome stuff!

Edit: just realized, double clicking on a word shows some possible rhyming words. It was a little unintuitive, but pretty cool nonetheless.

sebcioz• 13 years ago

Can I see a name of the track currently playing in the freestyle mode?

overload11910• 13 years ago

Not yet. On the TODO list!

khamoud• 13 years ago

Did you build this at the M-Hacks Hackathon?

rdl• 13 years ago

This is awesome.

Y Combinator procrastinator, hacker news representer

Running up in pretty colos constantly

And Dame said he proud of my newfound honesty

And don't bother me, high as shit from my broccoli

orangethirty3• 13 years ago

I am challenging you to a rap-off.

gailees2• 13 years ago

I feel like this is something Ben Horowitz at a16z would love haha. Also, definitely chat with the guys at Rapt.fm

bennyg• 13 years ago

Quickly before I get back to work:

--------

Jazzy beats creep up in my seat,

My back arches low as the words start to seep

Straight out my mind, and down through the keys.

Thoughts and feelings show, so slow with the release.

Complementary to all the pain I hide inside,

I'm literally getting paid to rhyme on my boss's time.

Blasting words off of neuron connections,

A convex complexion changes all direction.

But that's what freestyles are for right?

Fleeting moments of feeling, no reason for stage fright.

radiusq• 13 years ago

I see this as just a toy. No serious artist/rapper write lyrics like this or would even attempt to.

voltagex_• 13 years ago

Why? Is it really that much worse than a pad and pen?

rhema• 13 years ago

Anyone see tpoem? http://tpoem.com

malcolmmcc• 13 years ago

Needs internal rhyme. Like http://www.b-rhymes.com/

Something so key for rap is rhyming more than just one syllable.

http://rapgenius.com/posts/1669-The-rapper-s-flow-encycloped...

Mankhool2• 13 years ago

I think that should be, "Write better [Rap] lyrics".

fyi80• 13 years ago

The "Rap" in the name might have clued you to the game

Mankhool2• 13 years ago

Not knowing anything about Rap music I saw a product name and then a tagline, nothing more.

ajhit406• 13 years ago

Monzy would crush everyone on this thread.

endian• 13 years ago

  I've got people in the Delaware D.O.C.
  I send 'em 89 bucks, they send me equity!
  
  Collaborate or compete, 'til HN's header goes sable
  I'll put a cap in your ass
  or put your ass in a cap table.

dylanz• 13 years ago

The first instrumental that it played for me was "Shook Ones Pt. 2 Instrumental" by Mobb Deep, off of their Infamous album. That's in my personal top 10 list of favorite hip hop albums, and was super excited that this site somehow knew that ;)

On a side note, this is really clever. I love being able to quickly pull a random instrumental. The syllable counts are on point too, and it's nice that it makes you mix up the tempo of your flow.

Great job!

- edit: The landing page is great that it has a huge "Try it" button, but I actually went back to watch the video on the homepage thinking it would show me some examples, but it was some dude rapping instead. He's good, but not really my cup of tea at all. If I didn't click the "Try it" link and only clicked on the video, I would have most likely bounced.

overload11910• 13 years ago

Yeah, my bad. It's been mentioned before, but the landing page video is completely irrelevant, it's really just a placeholder. I don't know what other video to put there, maybe one day I can pay someone to make a tutorial vid.

rooshdi• 13 years ago

Rap on your app.

sgdesign• 13 years ago

This is awesome! Also confirms that just because I've been listening to hip-hop for the last 15 years, doesn't mean I can rap…

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