Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by rileyt on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @10:43AM (#12958894)

The things I have made that I am most proud of are:

* https://standardresume.co/ - Started because I couldn't find a resume that I liked.

* https://amplitudeapp.com/ - A more advanced artist radio style playlist maker.

* http://rediscover.rile.yt/ - Automatically save Spotify discover weekly playlists.

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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by jimminy on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @10:59AM (#12959099)

I was looking for a Discover Weekly saver for a while, but resorted to using just screencapping the list, and saving the good tracks internally.

One issue with saving a Discover Weekly list to Spotify is that Discover Weekly is generated based on the content in the user's playlists. If you add a bunch of Discover Weekly lists that are 28/30 duds you're going to start reinforcing the system to generate crappy lists.

I think that's why Spotify doesn't allow saving them. They do allow saving of the topical Discover Daily, which reinforces my belief here.

Just thought I'd let you know about the possible issue with your product. Even though I absolutely love it and would use it.

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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by rileyt on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @11:11AM (#12959231)

I have heard talk of this before, it would be great to get an answer from someone who works at Spotify. I wonder if saving the tracks in the playlist and not creating the backup until the next week would get around that? There is no way they are track all plays, saves, playlists, skips for every user over all of time.

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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by jimminy on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @12:14PM (#12959992)

It doesn't track plays at all, it takes songs in your playlists and calculates close matches based on songs in other users playlists.

It's a relatively simple graph-transform that is just using occurence in playlists tor generation. Which makes adding the playlists self-reinforcing, which could have negative situations.

I have a wide range of musical taste, but a low number of playlists and can drastically change from metal to dance to hip-hop by adding a prebuilt playlist week to week.

Here is an article on how it works, and there have been discussions from the staff elsewhere on why DW is so good.

http://qz.com/571007/the-magic-that-makes-spotifys-discover-...

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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by rexpop on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @11:25AM (#12959396)

No? Tracking all that stuff is trivial. For sure they are tracking plays, I do not see how they couldn't just as easily track saves/skips w/ one log entry.

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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by rileyt on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @03:56PM (#12962131)

Sorry, i meant that they arent talking all of that into consideration for each weeks playlist -- im sure they are tracking it.

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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by bjoveski on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @12:22PM (#12960059)

I've been using an IFTTT recipe for saving the weekly playlists. Works like a charm.

https://ifttt.com/applets/311873p

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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by rileyt on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @05:20PM (#12962837)

Rediscover doesn't require an IFTTT account though so it is much easier.

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