deepdesai
Re:Ask HN: Career building suggestions for a self-taught dev?
on Friday January 12, 2018 @10:11AM (#16133419)
My background, in a nutshell: I graduated with a marketing degree from a school in upstate NY, was working in Manhattan at an ad agency. My US visa expired, so I moved back to India, where I was doing similar marketing strategy stuff in Mumbai, both at agencies and in-house at organizations. Brief detour in the middle where I co-founded a (now defunct) startup which was trying to build an Expedia-like portal for medical tourism. Now I'm here, figuring out what's next.
Ask HN: Career building suggestions for a self-taught dev?
Hey! So I've had an interesting couple of years professionally, and I've spent the bulk of my time teaching myself how to code. I recently released my first project – www.jamsontoast.com At first glance it's probably super easy to dismiss as 'just a music player' but if you spend some time with it, you might be able to tell that I put some serious effort into it.I wanted to get some opinions on...
Show HN: Jams on Toast – Delightful iOS Music Player
Re:Show HN: iOS music player, like a virtual record collection
on Thursday October 26, 2017 @04:45AM (#15557324)
Actually it only works with local files (as in synced via iTunes) at the moment. Apple Music is on the roadmap, and so is Spotify!
Re:Show HN: iOS music player, like a virtual record collection
on Thursday October 26, 2017 @04:43AM (#15557316)
If there's enough interest in this, and I have the time to do it, I'd be happy to support it! Apple Music and Spotify would probably be first though. TBH I'd rather build in FLAC support, iPhones have plenty of storage these days.
Re:Show HN: iOS music player, like a virtual record collection
on Thursday October 26, 2017 @04:37AM (#15557297)
I've considered it! But:
- I really like the idea of one button for "everything else"
- Once you start using the app, I've found that you don't tend to search often, because you just intuitively where things are placed
- It's more fun to browse through your collection and find something you'd forgotten about instead of searching for whatever is "top of mind" at the moment
Re:Show HN: iOS music player, like a virtual record collection
on Thursday October 26, 2017 @04:33AM (#15557273)
Don't mean to be a pushy-car-salesman-types, but I think you should take it for a test drive – your experience might surprise you. One of my explicit goals in designing the app was to get you OUT of the app ASAP, since I don't give a damn about "engagement". Today, the stock iOS music app seems too fiddly to me...
Re:Show HN: iOS music player, like a virtual record collection
on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @08:13AM (#15549385)
TBH I didn't even realize what I was showing when I recorded the screencast, but I find it painful to listen to mass-manufactured crap :)
Re:Show HN: iOS music player, like a virtual record collection
on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @08:03AM (#15549333)
If you just wanna get your hands on it, it's already quite stable! And you can totally be an IMproper beta tester :)
Re:Show HN: iOS music player, like a virtual record collection
on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @07:51AM (#15549269)
True iPad support is on the roadmap!
PS: I also own an iPad, so this is absolutely going to happen at some point.
Re:Show HN: iOS music player, like a virtual record collection
on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @07:10AM (#15549093)
Apple Music support is absolutely on the roadmap, and so is iPad support!
If you haven't already, do send me an email. TestFlight is Apple's platform for doing beta testing, it's super straightforward.
Re:Show HN: iOS music player, like a virtual record collection
on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @07:06AM (#15549072)
Apple Music support is on the roadmap!
Re:Show HN: iOS music player, like a virtual record collection
on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @07:06AM (#15549069)
Thank you, kind stranger on the internet! :)
I actually only recently started learning how to code, this is my first project.
Show HN: iOS music player, like a virtual record collection
1 minute screencast: https://youtu.be/AmDL2QtkoJ4If you'd like play with it, please send a note with your name and email to [email protected] and I will send you an invite (via TestFlight).If you're the kind of person who listens to albums cover to cover, or would like to manually arrange your records instead of going through a boring alphabetized list, or are just really annoyed...