Noon Pacific
Consumer and social
music discovery app
SHOW HN2014
125points
62comments
#217of 2,272 in 2014
Top 10%of 2014 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
12 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 5 critical, out of 31 comments about the project. Thread score +0.27.
Idea: 5 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Good curation and unknown music discovery
From 3 comments
Loved the first song I heard on web version, +1 for Android. Good example of non-technical value creation - can't fake good curation. That your project has done so well tells me…
SmallBets on HNThis is an awesome app! Really nice unknown (at least for me) music! If I can give you some feedback, the UI need some tweaks. the whole screen bounces when you touch it. Would…
mokkol on HNCongratulations! Just trying this out now and I love the mix I've had so far. It's so easy to make music these days that it can be difficult to find the gems in all the noise.…
hol on HN
Simple, minimalist design
From 2 comments
Appreciate it. People seem to love the simplicity of having the music delivered to them instead of trying to search/browse through tons of artists. Huge fan of Spotify, 8tracks,…
dinnison on HNThe concept and screenshots look great! Do you have last.fm support? Because (for me): If it doesn't scrobble it's not a music player :-) Edit: Just downloaded the app. It…
clemsen on HN
Objections
No Last.fm scrobbling
From 2 comments
The concept and screenshots look great! Do you have last.fm support? Because (for me): If it doesn't scrobble it's not a music player :-) Edit: Just downloaded the app. It…
clemsen on HN+1 for last.fm support - a lack of support this in Rdio sent me back to Spotify.
dan1234 on HN
Copyright concerns about streaming
From 1 comment
How are you handling issues related to copyright? I don't have an iOS device so I can't tell if the app simply streams the music from sources that have legal access or if its…
L_Rahman on HN
Performance issues with web embed
From 1 comment
for some reason this makes my aurora+bunch of extensions lock up and crash edit: extension-free version of aurora also spikes cpu and starts eating all ram. Must be somewhere…
enimodas on HN
Requests
Android version
From 3 comments
Nice work, now please can we have it on Android!
technotony on HNLoved the first song I heard on web version, +1 for Android. Good example of non-technical value creation - can't fake good curation. That your project has done so well tells me…
SmallBets on HNI figured as much based on the web player, but wanted to double check anyways. Thanks for answering my question. I'd love to see an Android version of this. I'm an Android dev,…
L_Rahman on HN
Last.fm support
From 2 comments
The concept and screenshots look great! Do you have last.fm support? Because (for me): If it doesn't scrobble it's not a music player :-) Edit: Just downloaded the app. It…
clemsen on HN+1 for last.fm support - a lack of support this in Rdio sent me back to Spotify.
dan1234 on HN
UI tweaks such as progress bar and song details
From 1 comment
This is an awesome app! Really nice unknown (at least for me) music! If I can give you some feedback, the UI need some tweaks. the whole screen bounces when you touch it. Would…
mokkol on HN
Questions
How the launch used the mailing list and press
From 2 comments
Congratulations! What did you do to market the app? Just stick it in the store? Or did you get blogs to do write-ups? It seems like discovery has always been a huge problem for…
epaga on HNI've built up a list of 14,000 subscribers to the free web app over the past year and also had a journalist at LifeHacker who wrote about the project before. I offered the…
dinnison on HN
Whether 8tracks API use was permitted commercially
From 2 comments
Did you get 8tracks API permission for use in a commercial app? http://8tracks.com/developers/terms: For commercial use of the API (including ad revenue) you must receive…
mbosch on HNYes, 8tracks approved my API use and even promoted the app on their twitter: https://twitter.com/8tracks/status/435873866548662272
dinnison on HN
Alternatives named
Hype Machine
From 1 comment
I'm actually a big fan of Hype Machine (and love their app), but I'm attempting to do something different with Noon Pacific. It's considered more of a music newsletter with hand…
dinnison on HN
Pandora
From 1 comment
Pandora does me well with discovery, though I do appreciate some hand curated lists from time to time.
knight9990 on HN
hoot.ch
From 1 comment
nice work! Check out hoot.ch. A similarly minimalist music discovery web-app.
ldad on HN
Spotify
From 1 comment
+1 for last.fm support - a lack of support this in Rdio sent me back to Spotify.
dan1234 on HN