Hack Ideas

If you are looking for some inspiration for your next weekend hack project,
here is a list of ideas that could be built using the SoundCloud platform.
Feel free to add your own ideas in the comments!

Hack Ideas

May 29th, 2011 by Johannes Wagener

If you are looking for some inspiration for your next weekend hack project,
here is a list of ideas that could be built using the SoundCloud platform.
Feel free to add your own ideas in the comments!

Web

• Moodboards: blend available ambient sounds and music from SoundCloud to make ‘moodboards’, e.g. moodboard.com/fire or moodboard.com/forest

• Street musicians of the world: world map of all the recorded street music on SoundCloud

• Send a sound to a Facebook friend: simple way to share sounds and recordings to Facebook friends

• Current events: audio commentary pages of world current events

• Commentary Overlay: Artist’s audio commentary or audio listener feedback

• Moodline: record users who move their mouses if they like a part of a track or not. create composites of moodlines.

• Last.fm + SoundCloud: Enter your last.fm username and get suggestions on who to follow on SoundCloud

• Record a telephone call: e.g. a prank call recordings

• Moodboards #2: — layering sounds, innovative interface for blending SoundCloud sounds together in the browser using various HTML5 technology

• Crowdsourced lyrics for sounds

• Crowdsourced book reading

• Rap battle hiphop: a la http://takesquestions.com but for rappers

• “SoundCards”: Moocards+SoundCloud. Secret track links, invite-codes, waveform-displays and comments on the cards.

• Moodbar analyzer for tracks.

• A standard JS picker UI for SoundCloud tracks from your profile or from the whole site.

• Ingestion-app for SoundCloud: Uses SoundCloud Connect to bulk add 100s of files over SFTP+manifest xml files (standard ingestion scheme).

• WeFollow tweak for popular SoundCloud users etc.

• Download limit monitor: Check if a track has been uploaded more than expected, if so, disable download

• Rapportive plugin for GMail.

• Discography: Turn sets into a discography page with artwork, buy link, cat no etc.

• Slideshare Mashup: Sync presentation audio recording with the slides. Leverage http://popcornjs.org/ ?

• Birthday messages: Facebook based app to track your friends birthdays and remind you to share an audio greeting with them

• Instagram for Sound: http://madebymany.com/blog/what-would-instagram-sound-like

Mobile

• Audiogram: an Instagram style app to record sounds, applying audio filters and share on SoundCloud

• Personal audio diary: inspired by the memento/everyday iphone apps

Desktop

• A file system plugin (fuse?) that lets you mount your SoundCloud account and add files to it by dragging and dropping.

• Audio visualizer using timed comments for textual-based artistic visualization at the right point in the sound.

• ← Java API Wrapper
• MySQL for Statistics – Old Faithful →

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