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Notably absent hobby in the article is music. I'm currently working on a website that will function as a "hobby app" for digital music/album collection.

https://discollect.app my public profile: https://discollect.app/profile/clo0oz2hw0005fv02qbxn866c

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Cool idea. Are you planning to add profile photo, description, and location support like Letterboxd has? Maybe messaging?

Also, is there a way to find who else has listened to what I've listened to?

I'm definitely open to adding profile photos. So far I've mostly been developing based on what I personally want because I do enjoy using the service myself. Description has been on the backlog for a while. For location: you can currently set a flag to show up on your profile in your settings, but I agree it would make sense to expand it to a full location. Messaging will definitely be coming.

Right now the only way to see if you have common discs with someone else is to directly visit their profile and a "Discs In Common" section will show up. But that's sort of impossible to stumble upon since user discovery is non-existent at the moment. Will be improving this in the near future (others who've collected this disc, etc).

I'll come up with an actual roadmap this week, but here's a few ideas that will be on it:

- Bio, messaging, full location, profile photos - Album reviews (only after collection) - Improved empty state and onboarding - Folders to organize your collection - Readable profile links

Appreciate the great feedback!

That's exciting, especially the discovery stuff. Thanks!

There used to be an app called JQBX and at least one beautiful community came from it. It's not mantained anymore though.

Oh this is super cool. I actually started designing another project that's very similar to JQBX last week. Perfect time for me to see this. And the connection with Discollect will be that you can only queue tracks from albums you've collected, which hopefully encourages music discovery.

Oh! This is a cool service! Love onboarding experience

Thanks! Got the motivation to finish up the onboarding after seeing this article. Still adding features all the time so let me know if you have any ideas!

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