asarazan posted a now-deleted thread about an album he posted on Github. In the comments, I posted the following:<p>* * *<p>I actually had something like this built (before I started coding) as a startup out of Rails & Flex... but, after ~12 months of being unable to solve some UX problems and pursuing the wrong business model, it's now just sitting online.<p><i>URL = http://youphonics.com/login; username => hnguest; password => goodolyc</i><p>Since some of you actually seem to be into the idea of Github'ing music (ericb, baddox, asarazan, xpaulbettsx, mrspeaker, zcid, JoachimShipper, johnny22, beaumartinez...), it'd be neat if any of you want to help me package and open source the code base!<p>* * *<p>I hope that, even though the original thread may not have been appropriate... this is. :)<p><i>[Edited for formatting, added guest credentials]</i>
Although the submission you speak of was deleted, its discussion thread wasn't[1].<p>YouPhonics certainly sounds like a good idea, capturing the "social" aspect of GitHub. I assume it allows you to mash-up and remix peoples tracks? That would be killer, and I'm sure people using services such as SoundCloud[2] to host their tracks would quickly migrate to it. (If you have the time, post an guest login here for us to demo it.)<p>I second rch's motion[3] to GitHub YouPhonics' code―even if it is ugly and hacky (depending on your level of perfection, whose code isn't?!). If anything, you'd make all the effort you put into it even more fruitful.<p>[1] <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2429930" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2429930</a>
[2] <a href="http://soundcloud.com/" rel="nofollow">http://soundcloud.com/</a>
[3] <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2430432" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2430432</a>
This is a pretty cool idea. I'm sure DJ's and artists creating remixes would find it really useful. I don't know how much help I would be specifically but sticking the project on GitHub sounds like a good way to get some traction.<p>If you get it going I know I would definitely use it (and if I can help with any of the coding I will).
It'd definitely be cool to see YouPhonics open sourced. There are a decent number of desktop-based OSS out there that do similar things, but not usually polished, and certainly nothing I know of that's web based.<p>I'd love to help out however I can.