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       Show HN: Banger.show - create colorful visuals for your songs in
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       I made an app for music producers to tease their music in a fancy
       way. Something that looks better than this:
       https://twitter.com/eprombeats/status/1647072160547246081
        
       Author : samokhovets
       Score  : 31 points
       Date   : 2023-07-06 21:03 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | LadyCailin wrote:
       | This is neat, but no way in hell would I pay $8 a month for it.
       | I'd maybe be fine using credits, but not a subscription.
        
         | samokhovets wrote:
         | Hey, thanks for feedback! Yeah, I've been considering this type
         | of pricing. For example, you buy X amount of seconds and use
         | them whenever you want. I'm curious, are you a musician?
        
       | immy wrote:
       | Curious to hear what you learned so far in doing market research
       | with artists
        
         | samokhovets wrote:
         | Hey! I'm still learning and testing, but here's some of my
         | thoughts:
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36622992#36623549
        
       | ugh123 wrote:
       | If I decline the collection of cookies via your popup, then I
       | can't view the site? I believe that's in violation of _something_
       | , and also really lame.
       | 
       | Edit: Here's the actual text from the GDPR rules (EU)
       | 
       | "The emphasis on "specific website content" clarifies that
       | websites should not make conditional "general access" to the site
       | on acceptance of all cookies but can only limit certain content
       | if the user does not consent to cookies (e.g.: for e-commerce
       | websites, whose main purpose is to sell products, not accepting
       | (non-functional) cookies should not prevent a user from buying
       | products on this website)."
       | 
       | https://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/documentation/opinio...
        
         | samokhovets wrote:
         | I think you just saved me, sir. Thanks for pointing it out, I
         | just forgot about that "quick fix" I left at the development
         | stage. Fixing!
        
           | ugh123 wrote:
           | Cool thanks and awesome project =)
        
       | BLKNSLVR wrote:
       | ProjectM is the spiritual successor to Winamp's visualiser:
       | 
       | https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm
        
         | samokhovets wrote:
         | Looks cool! But the point was to provide a _fast_ way to make
         | vids. It 's not about git cloning, building from source etc.
         | It's about compromise between good UX and how output looks.
        
       | m3kw9 wrote:
       | Looks like a practice site for Saas, seriously, what was the
       | market research like to see if someone would pay for this
       | service?
        
         | zerkten wrote:
         | I suspect that's their point, or maybe that of their client.
         | Following the footer you find that it's built by a company that
         | focuses on MVPs:
         | 
         | "A small team of high-skilled product developers has created
         | and launched mini-startups for the last 5 years. We will build
         | and help to validate your product idea in 30 days."
        
           | samokhovets wrote:
           | In this case, that's our product. Managed by musician (me) :)
           | 
           | Sorry for being offtopic, but you can find my artist page if
           | you search for "Tequila Funk". I make electronic music.
        
         | samokhovets wrote:
         | Hey, there's was no specific "market research" or anything like
         | that.
         | 
         | I run a music project called Tequila Funk (you can check
         | Spotify).
         | 
         | I noticed a lot of musicians just record their phone screen
         | with Dropbox app player (because they're exporting snippets to
         | Ableton Live) or recording their DAW (which requires setup).
         | Some examples:
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         | https://twitter.com/littlesnakexoxo/status/16470785687852277...
         | https://twitter.com/eprombeats/status/1647072160547246081
         | https://twitter.com/nyptane/status/1669404466083143680
         | https://twitter.com/jayjaytet/status/1639613178412670980
         | https://twitter.com/staynsdubs/status/1664496810268688384
         | 
         | All I wanted is to provide a way to pick a file from Dropbox
         | and get a video to post in your socials in around ~60 seconds.
         | And do this from your phone!
         | 
         | I see people telling that there's a lot of open source
         | visualizers, Winamp and all that jazz. Yeah, sure. But for me
         | personally it's tough to setup all these. All I wanted is to
         | make videos fast, even without using a computer. Most musicians
         | can't clone github repo or setup audio routing lol
        
           | 57FkMytWjyFu wrote:
           | What's tough for me is finding a reason to give you 8 dollars
           | a month. All that other stuff you talk about is pretty easy.
           | This is not an audience of people who are intimidated by
           | github or audio routing.
        
       | noizejoy wrote:
       | As a music maker, I'm very hesitant to upload my songs to a new
       | cloud service until after they're published.
       | 
       | This doesn't invalidate this new service, but it might limit its
       | competitiveness compared to self hosted apps.
        
       | valevk wrote:
       | Looks nice, but are there any other visuals than the three you
       | demoed? Also, is your user name in any way related to the
       | bulgarian mobster that got killed in Amsterdam?
        
         | samokhovets wrote:
         | And about the username - nope, it's not related. It's my last
         | name :)
        
         | samokhovets wrote:
         | Hey, thank you for feedback! At the moment, there's only three:
         | 
         | 1. CDJ 3000 2. Specre 3. Circle
         | 
         | But I was working on another two and decided not to include in
         | the first version:
         | 
         | 4. Trip (https://cdn.banger.show/visuals/160-Tequila-Funk-Drop-
         | The-Bo...) 5. Perimeter
         | (https://cdn.banger.show/visuals/1579016767_flux-pavilion-
         | i-c...)
         | 
         | Be careful if your internet traffic is limited, videos are not
         | compressed/optimized and 150-300mb both.
        
       | hideo wrote:
       | i have the inexplicable urge to whip a llama's ass
        
         | justzisguyuknow wrote:
         | Seriously though is this app a joke? WinAmp was doing way more
         | "stunning" visualizations than this back in 1998...
        
       | chaosprint wrote:
       | Cannot try unless I accept the cookies.
        
       | social_quotient wrote:
       | For those asking who would pay for this. I'd pay for an api that
       | did this. We have a platform that gets a lot of audio files and
       | it would be cool to run them through something like this to
       | generate the video viz for it.
       | 
       | I think the term is audiogram but minus the transcript.
       | 
       | While writing this reply I found this https://getaudiogram.com/
       | So maybe it's something to check out. (I'm not affiliated)
        
         | samokhovets wrote:
         | Hey, we've coded internal api that takes three params:
         | 
         | 1. Audio file URL 2. Duration in frames 3. Frame rate (FPS)
         | 
         | And outputs a .mp4 video file to S3 bucket.
         | 
         | So it's quite easy to make a REST API version. Let's keep in
         | touch if solution mentioned above does not satisfy you. My
         | email: igor@tequilafunk.com
        
       | joenot443 wrote:
       | $8/mo? For a widget? Compared to what folks are doing on
       | ShaderToy, the visualizations you've got here are pretty
       | elementary. I like the spirit, but I think you need to reconsider
       | what you're charging for what you're actually offering.
        
       | bob-09 wrote:
       | None of the visuals are loading for me. SSL errors for both
       | yandex and your CDN on my network.
        
         | samokhovets wrote:
         | Strange.. if it's Yandex and you're from USA/Canada it's
         | expectable I guess, but CDN is just AWS Cloudfront US East 1.
         | I'll try to investigate this.
        
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