Show HN: Flipper – an album-first library for music streaming
flipper.fm
I listen to albums, and streaming apps are built around playlists. I made this to save albums into stacks, and open them in Spotify, Bandcamp, or whatever.
flipper.fm
I also love to read reviews, so I aggregate them from a bunch of websites, and I end up with a sort of Rotten Tomatoes for new music? (An offline worker crawls the review sites and an LLM extracts the sentiment and a quote.)
The challenge with these things is how do you get started. I've tried to create starter stacks and I've got a way to import from Spotify or Apple Music playlists.
You can explore without an account. It's required for searching and saving albums. Free for now, I'm hoping to add a paid tier at some point. Letterboxd was a big inspiration.
Tech stack: Next.js on Vercel, Supabase. iOS app is almost finished, it's mostly a SwiftUI shell around server-rendered pages. This has been an adventure in seeing how far I can push LLM coding while still trying to be a software engineer. Pushing back on its wild schemes, trying to keep the DB schema sensible, and collaborating with it on UX ideas.
Curious to hear what people think. Anything missing that would make you use something like this?
When you pick an artist and import their albums, do greatest hits and live albums get included too? I might find those a bit distracting.
I think it’d be fun to have a mode where you pick albums just by the cover art. Like buying records for the cover back in the day. You see a design and think “I’ll give this a listen! If you like it, you can import all the artist’s albums.