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Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus

Shown by usernameis42 on Feb 16, 2025. Click the card to turn it over.

201points

127comments

#321of 3,837 in 2025

Top 9%of 2025 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

14 positive, 20 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 25 critical, out of 60 comments about the project. Thread score -0.22.

Idea: 9 for, 11 againstExecution: 0 for, 5 againstDesign: 2 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 3 againstPricing: 0 for, 2 against

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Music streams taken from SomaFM without permission or credit, costing royalties
From 3 comments
- Please give credit to SomaFM if you are going to use their steam. They even have a similar station: https://somafm.com/sf1033/ But it’s the SFPD police scanner + chill beats…
  WD-42 on HN
- You are costing us money. We have to pay royalties to the artist for each person who hears even part of a track. We do not have ads in the streams. Why are you being so stubborn…
  rustyhodge on HN
- Thank you for contributing to the enshittication of the web. We keep our streams open so our listeners can easily and freely access us, unlike most other internet radio services.…
  rustyhodge on HN
Uses LiveATC audio despite its no third-party use terms
From 1 comment
- Hopefully OP is going to give them some (a lot of?) money, considering there's a promiment link to Product Hunt that says "Launching soon", and nothing on today's Internet is…
  netsharc on HN
High CPU usage from cloud animation
From 2 comments
- My 8cores CPU goes to 99% when i visit your website. There's something wrong.
  gatienboquet on HN
- Yeah that one made my laptop absolutely chug. I want to listen to the page while reading a writeup of why such a simple graphical effect is so inefficiently rendered.
  causality0 on HN

Toggle to disable cloud animation
From 2 comments
- I would add a toggle for disabling the clouds animation. It wastes a lot of CPU cycles for me.
  sandblast on HN
- Quick request: Could you add a toggle for the cloud animation? I like to keep my processors cool :-)
  MrMcCall on HN
More airports in the selector
From 1 comment
- Any idea why only a handful of airports can be selected?
  d1sxeyes on HN
Support for other streams or Alexa
From 2 comments
- Question: any chance I can have this as a radio station in my Alexa??
  ohuf on HN
- It was actually more a technical question, the site uses LiveATC streams, there doesn't seem to be any specific reason to limit which stream the user chooses, I was just…
  d1sxeyes on HN

Why only a few airports can be selected
From 1 comment
- Any idea why only a handful of airports can be selected?
  d1sxeyes on HN
Other similar live streams for background listening
From 1 comment
- Are there any other live streams like this that one can play in the background? I am aware of liveatc and broadcastify.
  asimovfan on HN

SomaFM Groove Salad and Mission Control
From 2 comments
- This appears to be SomaFM https://somafm.com/groovesalad/ plus LiveATC https://www.liveatc.net
  enjaydee on HN
- Seems like this is SomaFM re-wrapped. If you dig this general idea, the Mission Control station on Soma is undefeated: https://somafm.com/player24/station/missioncontrol.
  rglover on HN
LofiATC
From 1 comment
- Pretty cool! I remember there was https://www.lofiatc.com/ but looks like it got blocked?
  eamag on HN
youarelistening.to
From 2 comments
- Reminds me of You Are Listening To... when you could select the city and the soundcloud tracks. https://youarelistening.to/newyork
  szermer on HN
- So it's like youarelistening.to but for ATC?
  ASinclair on HN