Inspiration
We are five Estonians who came to Junction with a mission – to turn the already awesome Spotify API into something epic. Whilst a brilliant product, Spotify lacks the ability to play music videos. So thought to introduce this new skill to Spotify.
What it does
- You search your favourite song and select it
- We find and time images to match the music
- We mash these together into a video and hope it works
How we built it
We get your Spotify song from Spotify’s API. Then we find lyrics for it, on the internet, using a mysterious chinese API. After that we match images to the lyrics. The outcome is a funny and creative lil’ music video, which is quite different from usual music videos! The backend is built using Node.js, frontend with React.js
Challenges we ran into
- Being Blacklisted from sites where we got some of our pictures from
- Since an unknown Chinese API for lyrics, we had to invest quite a few hours into building cached version in case something happened to that API
- Lars being very sick after eating the Beans
Accomplishments that we're proud of
- Promoted our product very actively, even when we had simple MVPs
- Had over 50 ideas initially that we worked our way to the current idea
- We have positive feedback from people who have seen what we do
- Our site looks damn hot
What we learned
- In the future we should prototype faster, ignoring design at first
- Sharing is caring
- You can even utilise random Chinese APIs to build an MVP
What's next for Misshurd
- Get it production ready
- Get 100 users to use and share the product
- TOP listened songs by users
- Ability to add lyrics on your own
Built With
- google-image-search
- heroku
- jsx
- node.js
- postgresql
- react
- spotify
- unknownchineseapi
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