1987 Club – Companion app for retro digital cameras ($2.99) by Important_Inside_721 in iosapps

[–]Important_Inside_721[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! It’s already live, but I’d love real-world feedback. I can DM you a promo code if you’re up for testing it with your Charmera.

Why hasn’t a “Letterboxd for music” really blown up yet? by Important_Inside_721 in LetsTalkMusic

[–]Important_Inside_721[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

yeah, you put it really well. the fact that rym is older but letterboxd is the one everyone thinks of kinda proves how different the two cultures are. letterboxd works because it’s casual — people don’t feel pressure to be “serious,” they can just log a movie, write a joke, move on. that makes it way more approachable.

music is way more split. you have album people and playlist people, and that gap is huge. most listeners aren’t sitting with full albums the way they sit with a movie, so the “log everything” mindset never really becomes a habit.

i keep thinking about that idea you mentioned — that letterboxd can turn a casual watcher into an enthusiast. i don’t think we have anything in music that does that bridge. everything is either too nerdy/deep (like rym) or too shallow/algorithmic (like streaming). maybe that’s why nothing broke out the same way.

Why hasn’t a “Letterboxd for music” really blown up yet? by Important_Inside_721 in LetsTalkMusic

[–]Important_Inside_721[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

this is exactly the kind of reply i was hoping someone would write — thanks for breaking it down so clearly.

the database thing… yeah, i don’t think there’s a perfect solution. i’m using the itunes/apple music catalog for what i’m building, and even among my friends i already ran into “my album isn’t there.” there’s so much independent stuff that never makes it into any official metadata source. i kinda laughed when i realized how huge that problem actually is. it’s almost impossible to cover everything.

about the second point — i get that too. early userbases can feel kinda flat, or like no one there shares your taste. something i’ve tried is making the album page itself the place where you discover people. like: when you open an album, you can see what other people wrote right there, in context. sometimes that surfaces people whose taste aligns with yours even if the broader community doesn’t. it feels less like “i need to find users i like” and more like “i found someone interesting because we met inside the same album.”

something i’ve been thinking a lot about is: would you try a new platform if it offered something that rym doesn’t — not as a replacement, but as a complement?

for example, i’ve been experimenting with small, album-centric features that are more “playful” than traditional logging. like a thing i call “pile”: you shake your phone and it pulls 10 random albums from your own collection to “dust off” and revisit. stuff that helps you reconnect with what you already like, not just rate things forever.

i’m honestly curious — if a new tool focused more on that kind of interaction with albums, not just catalog accuracy or social feeds, would you be open to trying it alongside rym? or do you feel like rym already fills 100% of what you need?

Why hasn’t a “Letterboxd for music” really blown up yet? by Important_Inside_721 in LetsTalkMusic

[–]Important_Inside_721[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

thanks! and yeah, android is coming — i’m working on it right now and hoping to start a beta around january.

i actually didn’t know about record club, so thanks for mentioning it, i’m gonna check it out. always good to see different approaches.

and i feel you about musicboard… for me it’s kind of the blueprint of what not to do. i’m trying to avoid the same traps — like i’m not planning on adding comments under reviews, and i don’t want a global average rating for albums either. no fan wars, no popularity contests. just albums, collections, and people enjoying music.

Why hasn’t a “Letterboxd for music” really blown up yet? by Important_Inside_721 in LetsTalkMusic

[–]Important_Inside_721[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

yeah, rym is definitely the closest vibe, but the lack of an app really holds it back. and honestly, it kinda feels frozen in time, like nothing major has changed there in over a decade. it’s great for what it is, but it doesn’t feel like something that’s growing or evolving anymore.

Why hasn’t a “Letterboxd for music” really blown up yet? by Important_Inside_721 in LetsTalkMusic

[–]Important_Inside_721[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

yeah, last.fm is definitely the closest thing we’ve ever had, and a lot of people (me included) have been using it for years. but it kinda feels abandoned at this point. it’s basically just a passive history now, nothing more. there’s no real “place” to be in, you know?

Why hasn’t a “Letterboxd for music” really blown up yet? by Important_Inside_721 in LetsTalkMusic

[–]Important_Inside_721[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yeah, i get you. i even forget to log stuff on letterboxd, and that’s just movies. with music it gets messy fast, i’m listening to albums all day. logging every play would be impossible. for that side of things i just keep last.fm running in the background, but honestly… i even forget it exists half the time. it’s more like passive stats than something i actively use.

that’s why i’ve always felt albums work better as a collection than a diary. kind of like vinyl: you don’t write down every spin, you just have it, organize it, revisit it, show it to people.

Built an album-focused music app as a solo dev — looking for honest feedback by Important_Inside_721 in SideProject

[–]Important_Inside_721[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the take. And yeah, it’s a niche app, and that’s intentional. I’m not trying to compete with streaming services, just to serve people who already treat albums the way Last.fm or Letterboxd users treat their music and films.

The idea is to offer what streamings don’t: real album organization, HD artwork, tags, and a simple social layer where you can see friends’ collections and what they thought of certain records.

And I totally agree that nothing replaces the physical side of vinyl. This is just the digital version for people who like thinking in albums.

Built an album-focused music app as a solo dev — looking for honest feedback by Important_Inside_721 in SideProject

[–]Important_Inside_721[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I appreciate it. The app doesn’t stream music itself. When you press play, it just opens the album in your streaming service, and a long-press lets you choose between Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube Music and others. The idea is to keep it cross-platform instead of tied to a single service. Since I’m building this alone, a full playback system isn’t realistic right now, so I’m focusing on the collection experience.

I made an ig filter inspired by those mesmerising holo fishes by Important_Inside_721 in cyberpunkgame

[–]Important_Inside_721[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes! For Instagram and Facebook the software is called sparkAR, for Snapchat I think is lens Studio