i’m sick of mediocre music apps. I made a free last.fm/rate your music site that’s way more social.
For the past 5 days, I’ve been building Boomboxt, a social platform for reviewing/tracking music. There are sites like this such as Album of the Year, Rate Your Music, last.fm, airbuds, etc.
HOWEVER:
AOTY and RYM are great, but the interface of RYM feels dated and neither track your actual listens.
Last.fm is great at tracking your music, but it’s just a stats dashboard. There’s no actual decent social incentive or layer to it for me personally.
Airbuds nails audiotracking, but it feels like it’s purely focused on here’s what everyone’s listening to rather than here’s what people think of it. Not to mention the app spams you with notifications.
Boomboxt tries to be all of these. It tracks your music like last.fm, lets you rate and review albums as well as songs, and has a real social feed of what you and your friends are reviewing. It also has heardle! which is like wordle but with songs, which none of these apps have. And the best part, this whole experience is free!
There’s only about 5 users on the site, but I’d love to get more people like you all and get feedback on the site to improve and make it better. And maybe word of mouth could get this site big so everyone can enjoy it.
Right now there’s only a desktop and mobile web version, and it only works with Spotify, but I hope to make an app if enough people like this idea as well expand to other streaming platforms.