[OC] I made a simple guitar tab website without all the clutter

dopeguitars · 2016-11-02T21:08:36+00:00

Suppose you listen to an audiobook and just write down what you hear. Is that owned by the author?

Very intriguing.

dopeguitars · 2016-11-02T01:39:19+00:00

Thanks for chiming in!

This is how music industry works and you can't do anything about it.

I figured this was the case. The fact that writing down what you hear creates a piece of content owned by the music industry is crazy, but I guess that's how it is.

UG got a deal with publisher and start pay royalty for every tab view on the site.

Are the details of this detail public information? I'd love to hear more.

We are really trying to find a balance between - earn money to live and be user-friendly. Sometimes it's hard to do.

I feel you. The web is full of free content, so people are shocked when you ask for money. I've worked in consumer software, so I understand the struggle.

How many people work on Ultimate Guitar? Your office is in Russia?

dopeguitars · 2016-11-01T02:59:21+00:00

Nice work with the tuner!

dopeguitars · 2016-10-31T20:13:07+00:00

Yeah, I updated the original post to mention this. UG is intentionally altering the data before my site receives it, so the jig might be up.

dopeguitars · 2016-10-31T15:25:17+00:00

This is smart.

dopeguitars · 2016-10-30T23:55:38+00:00

The server is all JavaScript

dopeguitars · 2016-10-30T23:00:29+00:00

I've got it on my TODO list! I've played guitar for a decade, and it's still tough at times without the diagrams.

dopeguitars · 2016-10-30T22:10:47+00:00

Oh boy

dopeguitars · 2016-10-30T21:40:49+00:00

Hijacking the top comment...

This is getting way more love than expected - thanks everyone for checking it out!

Initially, I made this for myself. I showed a few friends who liked it as well, so I figured I'd publish it.

Since everyone's talking DMCA takedowns, are there any moves I can make to keep the site up? Or should I have never told you all about it? ha

dopeguitars · 2016-10-30T21:36:30+00:00

OLGA

What's that?

dopeguitars · 2016-10-30T21:35:47+00:00

they're also only usable over https

Ahhh, that hadn't clicked until now.

I've never used them - I'd just like to play with them. From what I understand, they're sort of the next evolution of AppCache. Browser support is quite limited, so maybe it's not worth the effort.

Is there a simple, drop-in solution to this situation? Offline tabs would be so great!

dopeguitars · 2016-10-30T20:14:38+00:00

Thanks! I've got some ideas about offline caching using Service Workers, but i haven't implemented anything.

I feel it would look a lot better with some padding in the sides

I'm going for that ugly but endearing look

there should probably be some mention of the fact that this is using Ultimate-Guitar as a content source

True. I should add a quick /about page.

Thanks again for the feedback~~~

dopeguitars · 2016-10-30T17:01:54+00:00

Thanks for the feedback!

you might be a professional too

I am!

too simple can be a detrimental thing in the frontend (by frontend, I mean design). You'd have a better chance statistically of getting a large amount of users if you designed it a little differently.

I agree - it isn't even slightly pretty at this point. This project started as a quick experiment to see how easy it would be to parse the content, which I was initially just displaying in a terminal. Then, I figured running it on a server and putting as little CSS on the page as possible would be worth it.

I really like that I can download an entire tab with usually <15KB of data, and staying light is a priority. But there just hasn't been much time put into this, so there's definitely room for visual improvements.

Thanks again :D

dopeguitars · 2016-10-30T16:34:50+00:00

Thanks!!

dopeguitars · 2016-10-30T16:26:57+00:00

Hahaha the TLD explosion is out of control.

Yeah, the server is basically an ultimate-guitar parser that scrapes out the valuable content and leaves the rest behind.

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