melodate is a mobile web app experience that allows the user to discover new artists à la online dating ✨🎶
melodate came about as a way for me to automate and enhance my process in looking for new music. before building this product -- i would go to spotify, click on an aritst, go through each of their related artists, take some of those artists' songs, and add the songs to a playlist. i grew tired of performing all these steps manually, and thus, the idea for melodate was born!
the melodate experience is unique to each user! the application prompts the user to log in through spotify, which it leverages to get the user's top artists in the last month. the app then shuffles through those artists' related artists, and presents them in the swipe-right, swipe-left format some of us have gotten (too) familiar with. the user can view each artist's genres and top song, allowing him/her to determine whether the artist is hot
melodate is now deployed on https://melodate.herokuapp.com/. the app currently is not designed for desktop use, as i wanted to capture a dating-app-like impression. make sure to access the site via a mobile device! and of course, you must be a spotify user to use melodate.
- spotify api
- express for node.js
fun fact: i've never downloaded or used any dating apps 😅 i would like to thank my official dating app consultant, lisa, for entertaining all my questions about tinder lol. another fun fact: this app was (un)originally called spinder in early design stages. like... spotify tinder. sigh.