Entertainment, music and news consumption
Music discovery and sharing apps
Consumer apps for finding, sharing, logging, and organizing music, including song-swap and friend-sharing apps, Spotify/Apple Music playlist tools, album and concert trackers, cross-platform link converters, and music guessing games.
Built for: Music fans and streaming users
Projects since May 04
240
Different builders
225
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
+3%
AI is the core
4.6%
Projects per week
Mostly web app (50%), mobile app (29%), browser extension (6.2%) · from r/SideProject, r/IMadeThis, r/vibecoding, r/ShowYourApp
Latest
- Lets users turn a virtual knob to browse music across different decades.“Feedback needed - I built a knob you turn to travel through decades of music , A Music time machine.”
- Sonik Music — Streams music from artists and lets listeners support them with virtual gifts, purchases and merchandise.“I got frustrated with music streaming, so I spent 1+ year building my own platform. Sonik Music is now a working web + iOS product.”
- Music-Vibe-Search — Generates playlists of acoustically similar tracks from a local music library based on a seed track's audio features.“I built Music-Vibe-Search: A local, open-source tool for generating "sounds-like" playlists from your offline music library without streaming algorithm bias”
- Shares a self-made music album for listeners to stream.“I just made an album! (plz listen to it)”
- BACKSTG — Shares private demo links for music tracks with listener stats and per-second comments.“BACKSTG - private demo links with listening stats and per-second comments for rappers and producers”
- Link Tapes — Lets friends build shared weekly playlists where each person adds a song with a short note explaining their pick.“Link Tapes: a weekly listening club where each friend adds one song and a reason”
- Restyles the Bandcamp website so browsing music resembles walking through a record store.“I made a really simple free chrome extension to make browsing Bandcamp feel like browsing a record store”
- SoundSwap — Lets users exchange songs blindly with strangers, revealing each track only after both sides have sent one.“Built a blind song-swapping app → 600+ users & 2,000+ swaps”
- Whitetooth Music — Lets users browse and filter their Apple Music library and catalog by detailed AI-assisted genre, scene, era, and production tags sourced from MusicBrainz and Discogs.“I'm building a free, open source Apple Music app for Android and web built around really deep genre tags. What would you want in it?”
- Fang — Cleans up messy music libraries by reviewing, renaming and moving tracks, using AcoustID and MusicBrainz to identify untagged songs.“I built an open-source music library organizer called Fang”
- Doco — Shows an animated companion blob on Android that reacts to the user and plays mood-matched Spotify music.“I built a tiny companion that keeps me company while I work”
- Pickin Party — Lists and schedules bluegrass jam sessions so musicians can find others to play with at a set time and place.“I made a website for organizing bluegrass jams”
- Lets users walk through Spotify playlists and quickly keep or remove each song from the terminal, with undo for mistakes.“I built a playlist-cleanup CLI for spotify”
- rainwave.live — Streams lofi and chillhop music from Audius while showing looping pixel art scenes in the background.“I built rainwave.live a pixel art themed LoFi radio.”
- Radxr — Generates Spotify music recommendations at adjustable levels of familiarity, from close to favorites to lesser-known artists.“I built an app that lets you control how adventurous your Spotify recommendations are”
- VinylDuel — Ranks the songs on an album or playlist by having the user choose between two songs at a time.“I built VinylDuel: rank an album's songs by picking between two at a time”
- Anthills — Hosts a social network where users share and explore music in an archive-style feed.“I made music archive SNS - Anthills”
- Growth Extractors — Releases a song by a DIY band for listeners to stream on Spotify.“I made this song, Growth Extractors, with my band, One Dimensional Creatures”
- Rankwave — Lets users search an album and drag its tracks into ranked tiers using auto-pulled cover art and tracklists, with audio previews.“Made a website to rank albums bc I got tired of doing it in Canva”
- TagMagic — Scans a music folder, looks up correct track metadata and album art from online databases, and applies changes only after user review.“I'm 78 and taught myself to code this year — built a tool to fix my messy 60-year music collection”
Most discussed
- Sonik Music — Streams music from artists and lets listeners support them with virtual gifts, purchases and merchandise.“I got frustrated with music streaming, so I spent 1+ year building my own platform. Sonik Music is now a working web + iOS product.”
- Song Go — Lets players catch songs by walking to map locations placed around the world, each linked to a unique track.“I built Pokémon Go for music. I placed 247 million songs across the globe. Go catch them all !”
- Similarities Engine — Recommends albums to try based on a user's five favorite albums.“After a 30 year break, I finished my music recommender website!”
- mshpit — Lets concert fans post photos and reviews from shows, follow other fans, and rate live performances.“My Side Project: A Concert Reviews and Live Music Historical Index Thingy.”
- MusicPool — Pairs two anonymous strangers with matching music preferences for a 24-hour chat where they trade songs, then deletes the conversation.“I built an app where you get paired with one stranger, trade songs for 24 hours, and then the chat deletes itself”
- Sonic Oracle — Builds a permanent playlist of artists connected by listener co-listening patterns, saved to a Tidal or Qobuz library.“I built a music discovery engine with 10M+ artists. 230 paying users in 2 months, zero moneys spent in marketing”
- Hosts meditation and hypnosis audio and lets users subscribe to and pay individual creators.“Payments for obscure subscriptions”
- WaxShelf — Lets vinyl collectors browse their Discogs-synced record collection, log memories tied to records, and share and discuss what they are spinning.“I built WaxShelf, a social platform for your vinyl collection (syncs with Discogs): early version, feedback welcome!”
- Groove — Lets users discover music through Tinder-style swiping on 30-second previews, saving tracks on right swipe and skipping on left.“I Built a music discovery app at 18, no coding background, jand I just shipped it to the App Store! :)”
- The Amazing Jukebox — Streams hand-picked music from the public YouTube embedded player with a synchronized live chat and no sign-up.“I built an algorithm-free music curation site using the public YouTube API to escape biased recommendations”