Piano Chord Player
Creative
music theory tool
SHOW HN2023
How HN took it
8 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 13 comments about the project. Thread score +0.52.
Execution: 4 for, 0 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Beautiful, useful and functional design
From 3 comments
Lovely!! Very well done. I’d love an inversion switch… not sure how to do that without cluttering the UI. Overall beautiful and super functional.
dbcurtis on HNProps for making such a beautiful and useful website! I was surprised to see how well it works on both mobile and desktop. What did you use for the search feature at the top?
boojing on HNBeautiful work.
FpUser on HN
Fills a gap; no good chord players found elsewhere
From 1 comment
At last, a functioning chord player for piano. As unbelievable as this sounds, none of the respective results on the first page of Google are working and I've been looking for…
antegamisou on HN
Arpeggiator is fun
From 1 comment
This was fun. Really dig the arpeggiator.
shidoshi on HN
Objections
Colorized keys hard to distinguish on yellow keys
From 1 comment
Lovely tool! Suggestion: colorized keys should be off by default as some colours are difficult to distinguish if active or not eg those against yellow keys.
jmkd on HN
Keyboard too small on mobile
From 1 comment
Neat! One idea might be to switch it to one octave at smaller (mobile) viewport widths... the keys get a little small :)
kshay on HN
Requests
Search chords by scale
From 1 comment
Really cool man! I think a nice feature could be search chords by scale (so I click C major scale and then I get all the chords + variations in C Major).
shampoo_banana on HN
Inversion switch
From 1 comment
Lovely!! Very well done. I’d love an inversion switch… not sure how to do that without cluttering the UI. Overall beautiful and super functional.
dbcurtis on HN
Multiple chord rows for comparing progressions
From 1 comment
Nice. Let me also put this idea out there that I've fantasized about (and basically just decided to make in "analog" by cutting up paper) A thing that lets you enter multiple…
jrm4 on HN
Questions
What search library is used?
From 1 comment
Props for making such a beautiful and useful website! I was surprised to see how well it works on both mobile and desktop. What did you use for the search feature at the top?
boojing on HN
Alternatives named
pianochord.io
From 1 comment
There's also this one from a previous Show HN https://pianochord.io
conradfr on HN
learnyourchords.com
From 1 comment
Hey I added this in if you want to check it out. https://www.learnyourchords.com
patchorang on HN