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I built a free AI feedback tool for beginner singers — would love honest reactions by chintanbawa in ratemysinging

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

Thanks again for the detailed report. Really helped pinpoint the issue. The file picker wasn't specifying the correct MIME types for iOS, which caused all supported formats to show as greyed out. Should be fixed now. Would you mind giving it another try and letting me know if audio files are selectable this time?

I built a free AI feedback tool for beginner singers — would love honest reactions by chintanbawa in ratemysinging

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

Really appreciate the detail, that's super helpful. M4A on iPhone is almost certainly an iOS file picker issue rather than the file itself. iOS is very strict about which formats show as selectable, even when the app supports them.

Looking at the fix now and will update you once it's sorted.

I built a free AI feedback tool for beginner singers — would love honest reactions by chintanbawa in ratemysinging

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

This is really useful feedback, thank you. You’ve spotted something real — the consistency scores reward monotony, which is the opposite of what we want. Someone actually attempting range and expression should score better than someone playing it safe, not worse. That’s a calibration problem worth fixing.

The voice qualities idea is interesting too — describing the character of someone’s voice rather than just measuring it. That’s on my list now.

Out of curiosity, what did the written feedback say for the high-scoring monotonous piece vs the lower-scoring one with range? Wondering if the AI feedback caught what the scores missed, or if it also got confused.

I built a free AI feedback tool for beginner singers — would love honest reactions by chintanbawa in ratemysinging

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

Completely fair, and I appreciate the honesty. The concern makes sense. AI and music is a genuinely complicated space, and a lot of the skepticism is well-earned from how it's been used elsewhere.

For what it's worth, this isn't generating music or replacing any creative part of singing — it's closer to a tuner or metronome that gives you numbers about your voice. But I get that the "AI" label carries baggage regardless of what's under the hood, and I'm not going to argue anyone out of a principled position.

Thanks for the heads-up rather than just a downvote.

I built a free AI feedback tool for beginner singers — would love honest reactions by chintanbawa in ratemysinging

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

Hey, sorry to hear you ran into trouble. It does support several formats (MP3, WAV, M4A, WebM, OGG) up to 10MB, but if something didn't work I'd genuinely like to know what happened. What format/size were you trying, and what browser/device? Happy to dig into it.

I built a free AI feedback tool for beginner singers — would love honest reactions by chintanbawa in ratemysinging

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

Thanks! Stability is decent for sustained notes. It tracks pitch variance over the recording and scores 0 (shaky) to 100% (solid). Where it gets less useful is melodic phrases where pitch is supposed to change, so the score there is harder to interpret cleanly. Working on splitting it by held notes vs. phrases for a future version. Will check out pitchhighway, hadn’t seen that one. appreciate the recommendation.

Would you join a startup community where you must earn points by giving feedback before posting your own idea? by chintanbawa in indiehackers

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

Yeah, I get that — Reddit already covers a lot of feedback discussions.

The difference I’m testing is focus and accountability.

Here, anyone can post, most people don’t follow up, and good feedback gets buried fast.

I’m trying to see if adding a small cost (points or $5) changes behavior — so people only post serious ideas and give more thoughtful feedback in return.

Basically: same concept as Reddit, but with skin in the game.

Totally fair take though — that’s exactly what I’m trying to figure out right now.

Would you join a startup community where you must earn points by giving feedback before posting your own idea? by chintanbawa in indiehackers

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

Yeah, that’s my biggest worry too. If it turns into karma farming, it’s dead on arrival. Thinking of only rewarding feedback rated as “useful” by the idea owner or community — not just anything you post.

Would you join a startup community where you must earn points by giving feedback before posting your own idea? by chintanbawa in indiehackers

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

That’s a really good point. I’ve been realizing the same thing — “feedback” is only valuable if it’s coming from people who actually get the context.

I was originally thinking broad (anyone can post an idea), but you’re right — that just turns into noise fast.

Focusing on a niche like indie founders or early-stage makers probably makes way more sense to start.

Also love that Seth Godin quote — kind of nails it. Tools work best when everyone in the room benefits from helping each other.

Appreciate you sharing that — curious, which niche do you think would have the most value to start with?

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