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subby··on A requirements.txt, but for my human dependencies
just shipped my first personal website (https://subby.tech), and thought it would be cool to write a blog post dedicated to the people who've shaped my life and taught me something important.

i'm calling it my requirements.txt file.

instead of listing software dependencies, it lists my people dependencies: important people in my life that have shaped who i am, and what i've learned from each one.

(plus, i like the fact that i can go up to these ppl and be like "i've added you to my requirements.txt btw lol")

this was inspired by a site that my roommate (@aadillpickle on twitter) did (https://acknowledgements.aadillpickle.com/), and thought it was a clever idea and decided to steal it.

anyways, would love any feedback on my new personal site!

happy holidays!! :)

subby··on Show HN: Galiboo – An A.I.-powered API for music
Hey, thanks for the question!

The main difference & significant improvement that our technology provides is its ability to not only extract high-level data (e.g. emotions, tags) from music (Echonest, for example, primarily emphasizes low-level attributes like beats, tempo, etc.), but also perform other important operations over this data (like querying by moods/tags, finding similar tracks, search by natural language, etc.).

So, in a way, our technology acts as an actionable intelligence layer over music, as opposed to just extracting & returning low-level data.

And yes, you could give it new songs & get back the extracted metadata. Plus, our commercial users can also integrate their own music catalog with our technology.

Thanks for the question! :)

subby··on Show HN: Galiboo – An A.I.-powered API for music
Hi guys! Sorry for this delay!

Due to the immense feedback & unexpected surge in API key requests that we received from being featured on Hacker News, we've decided to open up access to our API platform to all developers! :D

So now, you can get your own API key at: https://galiboo.com

Our APIs are currently in early beta, so we'd love to hear any feedback that you might have! :)

Our API docs: apidocs.galiboo.com Our Python library: https://github.com/galiboo/galiboo-python

You can also join our LIVE chat (with us & other developers) at https://gitter.im/galiboo/Lobby

If you have any questions, please shoot me an email to subby@galiboo.com and I'd love to help! :D

subby··on Show HN: Galiboo – An A.I.-powered API for music
Hey, thanks for the feedback!

We're working on a pay-as-you-go model for developers & personal use, which we'll have live in the coming days.

Until then, you can use a demo API key that we're currently in the progress of emailing out to everyone that had requested one. Thanks! :)

subby··on Show HN: Galiboo – An A.I.-powered API for music
Oh, that would be really hard for a computer to do, but we're thinking of trying that after we nail this one. ;)
subby··on Show HN: Galiboo – An A.I.-powered API for music
We only use the video's audio, not any other attributes (like text, title, description, & even the video itself). Thanks for the feedback!
subby··on Show HN: Galiboo – An A.I.-powered API for music
Hey thanks for the feedback! :)
subby··on Show HN: Galiboo – An A.I.-powered API for music
Thanks for the note! We're currently scaling our server capacity, so it should be resolved soon. Thanks again and sorry for this! :)
subby··on Show HN: Galiboo – An A.I.-powered API for music
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! We're currently creating customized pricing for each of our enterprise customers, to better suit their needs. Our live, commercial catalog consists of a growing catalog of about 64M tracks. :)
subby··on Show HN: Galiboo – An A.I.-powered API for music
Hi guys! We think we've fixed our API outage issue, so our APIs and demo should be available now, and be able to scale with demand. Hopefully everything goes well! Thanks for the patience & feedback guys! :)
subby··on Show HN: Galiboo – An A.I.-powered API for music
Hey, thanks for the feedback! We're currently experimenting with a few different techniques for this. We're actually using a lot of tags because the internal vector representations that our A.I. creates for these tracks become very accurate with this large number of tags (which helps with finding similar tracks, etc.). Thanks a lot for the feedback! :)
subby··on Show HN: Galiboo – An A.I.-powered API for music
Hey thanks a lot for the feedback! :) The demo service seems to not be working temporarily, but we're on the issue and we'll fix it fast. Thanks again! :)
subby··on Show HN: Galiboo – An A.I.-powered API for music
Hi guys! Seems like we've received a load of requests that we weren't expecting, so our API servers seem to be suffering temporarily. We're working on it though! :)
subby··on Show HN: Galiboo – An A.I.-powered API for music
Thanks for trying the demo and giving us feedback! :)
subby··on Show HN: Galiboo – An A.I.-powered API for music
Hey, thanks for commenting! The music typically used in ads (like video ads) can have a great impact on click-through-rates and conversion. So, by testing ads with different tracks by specific moods, we can find the right music that optimizes ads. We're currently testing this with a few private beta customers, so we'll see how it goes! :)
subby··on Bolt – Real-time file sync for teams, that works with your existing tools
Hi guys!

As a developer, I've always felt annoyed when it came to live collaborative development with other people, due to all the hassle around the process.

Either I have to repetitively use git add, commit, push, pull (after all VCS like git are meant more for version control, not sync) or the tools that I already work with don't natively support live, collaborative development (making me use unfamiliar, web-based IDEs that do support live collaboration).

So, over the weekend, I hacked up Bolt: real-time file sync for teams, that automagically works with the tools that you already use.

For example, if you use Sublime or Eclipse, you can simply "bolt" your project via the terminal, and you'll instantly be able to interactively code together with your team members (and see their code live), in real-time, while each of you can use your own tools.

So, I built this because I thought this would make it easier for me to work on team projects together.

I would love to hear your feedback on this! Thanks a lot guys!

subby··on Hi,I'm a 19 year-old starting a new music streaming service, would love feedback
Hi ibdf, thanks for your feedback!

I've described my service in my comment to the original post above, and how's it different from existing services. It is a mobile app.

In short, however, my music streaming service basically tries to serve you the right music to go along with what you're doing (commuting, exercising, etc.), using an A.I. technology that can accurately understand the music you listen to.

Using this A.I. tech, we're able to understand your music tastes much better, and give you a "discover weekly"-like experience, on-demand.

Hope that clarifies, and would love to hear any other thoughts/questions you have!

Thank you so much for your questions!

subby··on Hi,I'm a 19 year-old starting a new music streaming service, would love feedback
Hi bernardino, thanks for the feedback! I checked out the link you posted, and I'm actually doing something very different.

I've explained a bit in my comment to the original post above.

Would love to hear your feedback on this!

Thanks!

subby··on Hi,I'm a 19 year-old starting a new music streaming service, would love feedback
Hi telebone_man, thanks a lot for your feedback! I'm learning a lot from users like you, which is awesome!!!

The main difference in my service is that we don't do any manual curation using "agents," since the public editorial playlists can actually be quite generic, and not as personalized as creating a mix just for you, based on your tastes.

So, we've basically built an AI tech that can accurately understand music like humans.

Using this, our service can better serve you the right music for your moment, since it can understand your tastes much better (by understanding the music you like/listen to) & serve you the type of music you want, on-demand.

For example, you can tell the app to play some "relaxing music," and we'll instantly serve with you with music that's relaxing (which we didn't have to manually curate for you; it''s done on the fly by our A.I.).

As a result, you're not limited to any editorial selections, and the music you get once won't be the same as what someone else gets, etc.

Also, as another example, if you don't like to listen to aggressive, explit-type tracks, we can automatically learn that & improve the recommendations you get instantly, since our music-understanding AI can pickup the fact that you're not really into explicit-type tracks.

I've explained a bit more on how my service is a little different than Spotify in the comment I've posted above.

I would love to hear your thoughts on this!

Once again, thanks a lot!

subby··on Hi,I'm a 19 year-old starting a new music streaming service, would love feedback
Hi guys, thanks a lot for your feedback!! I certainly should have done a better job of communicating my service's core value/distinction! In short, the main idea behind my service is that, whenever you open the app throughout the day, we'll instantly curate and provide you with different music mixes that align with your tastes and go along with what you're doing (such as upbeat tracks for commuting to work, relaxing music for the evening, etc.).

So when you're at a cafe, for example, we can automatically detect that and instantly serve you with "focus" mixes of songs that you'll love, without having to pre-curate a public, editorial playlist of focus tracks (which aren't personalized to YOU).

In fact, a main point in our service is that, unlike Spotify & Apple Music, we actually DON'T manually curate public editorial playlists (since this can lead to generic & unpersonalized recommendations). Rather, we've built an AI technology that can accurately extract emotions/moods from music, which can help you discover more of the music you love-- on-demand.

For example, you can tell the app to play some "relaxing music," and we'll instantly serve with you with music that's relaxing (which we didn't have to manually curate for you). As a result, you're not limited to any editorial selections, and the music you get once won't be the same as what someone else gets, etc.

Finally, it's actually different from Spotify in many ways:

On a high level, Spotify Radio operates by playing you similarly-liked music, based on the tracks that you & others like/dislike. This can sometimes leads to uninteresting recommendations, since just because you like rap and classical doesn't mean you want to listen to both at the same time in a radio session! However, as mentioned before, I've built an AI that accurately extract emotions/moods from the music you listen to, enabling my service to not only better understand your personal tastes (as opposed to using "similarly-liked" songs like Spotify Radio) but also serve you with music that actually sound similar.

So if you don't like to listen to aggressive, rap in the night, we can automatically learn that & improve the recommendations you get instantly.

We don't use playlists, since they're static and don't instantly adapt to the user's tastes & behavior (and are often manually curated & created once per day/week). Rather, we're able to use our A.I tech to act as your personal music "concierge," serving you an ever-changing music mix that dynamically adapts to your likes, in real-time.

We're also different from Pandora, because Pandora is a service that's more oriented towards artist-based music recommendations, whereas the main point of our service is to get you the right music that aligns with your tastes & what you're currently doing at the moment (your context), whether it's commuting, exercising, unwinding, etc.

Does this give you more insight into my service, guys? What do you guys think?

Once again, thanks for your feedback!! I've learned a lot from you guys so far! Really appreciate it!

subby··on Hi,I'm a 19 year-old starting a new music streaming service, would love feedback
lol, sorry, but thanks for the note! I clearly missed that while rushing this.
subby··on Introducing Olympus – A tool that instantly creates a REST API for any AI model
Hi guys!

I'm Subhash, and I've just released a new open source tool for instantly creating a REST API for any ML model.

Currently, it's a work in progress and supports all Keras models (including multi-input/output).

What do you guys think? Would love your feedback!