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Show HN: The Rap Test

141 pointsby nessupalmost 11 years ago

41 comments

BlackJackalmost 11 years ago
You should include some basic instructions on the home page because it took me a while to figure out what this exactly did. I went to the Eminem page and thought I had to shade in the Relapse album cover and didn&#x27;t realize I had to click haha.<p>Really fun website though. I&#x27;m having a blast and discovering cool songs.
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sneakalmost 11 years ago
Any list of rappers that does not include Biggie is a bad list. He&#x27;s the best that ever lived.
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joshrotenbergalmost 11 years ago
Dang, dude. I started from the bottom and pretty much stayed there.
codeulikealmost 11 years ago
Was hoping this was like &quot;The Turing Test&quot;, but as a Rap Battle.
clintalmost 11 years ago
Doesn&#x27;t seem to do anything except show text on the screen (&quot;Drake Test&quot;) What is it supposed to do?
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cocoflunchyalmost 11 years ago
You should be really careful with licensing when you&#x27;re dealing with music. If you become big enough for the record companies to notice, they will come at you hard and fast with their lawyers.
acallaghanalmost 11 years ago
It&#x27;s honourable not having affiliate links, but I&#x27;d add them in if this were my project.<p>Most people don&#x27;t care or even know what one is and it&#x27;d allow you a bit of beer money from the project and cover the costs of the servers. Most people on the site would be happy enough to not pay and have no adverts, affiliate links are a very unobtrusive way of making money from a project like this.<p>I have a project with affiliate links, and the passive infrequent income I receive from it softly persuades me to do more work on it.<p>It&#x27;s up to you though obviously!
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lucasnemethalmost 11 years ago
Very nice UI. Hope you add some old school stuff in there! I went ok on the Kendrick Lamarr test, but would rock with A Tribe Called Quest.
anishkotharialmost 11 years ago
Respect, amazing UI! It would be great to know how you made this. Now you just need to add some old-school rap :-)
geuisalmost 11 years ago
The mobile interface is really well done. I appreciate especially that through accident or intent landscape works well. Everything is quick and quite logically setup.<p>The only downside is that I personally know nothing about rap, so the best I could guess were Real slim shady and another Eminem one by accident.
ljdalmost 11 years ago
It&#x27;s not loading and console is spitting this out:<p>FIREBASE WARNING: Specified Firebase has reached its Peak Connections limit. If you are the Firebase owner, consider upgrading. (<a href="https://raptestprod.firebaseio.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;raptestprod.firebaseio.com</a>)<p>EDIT: Fixed
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habosaalmost 11 years ago
Excellent job. I don&#x27;t have a single complaint. It&#x27;s very fun, the GIFs are great, and best of all it&#x27;s extremely fast. Considering that it is audio and image heavy I don&#x27;t know how you made it so fast. I&#x27;m gonna be playing this all day.
broolstorycoalmost 11 years ago
For me this page freezes Firefox (FF 30 Win 7) and bloats its memory usage by about 300mb. What it is doing on the top of the frontpage is beyond me.
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mandlaralmost 11 years ago
Oh. There&#x27;s more than two rappers to choose from. Didn&#x27;t notice that the first time I went to the page.
frankdenbowalmost 11 years ago
Pretty cool. Reminds me of SongPop which was a hit for a while (basically put this into a competitive game with many categories). Nice work!<p>I tried doing a startup based on short music clips (sourced from iTunes). Its too bad that its still a minefield legally until there are statutory rates for short clips of content.
carlobalmost 11 years ago
When I was a teen[1] there was this bar where they would give a free pint to everyone who could guess who was performing a given song. They gave out about one pint per hour. I wish I could find another place that did that. This website made me reminisce…<p>[1] Legal drinking age is not really enforced in Italy.
jdprgmalmost 11 years ago
I am entirely too good at passing these.
diegoalmost 11 years ago
I tried to navigate away from the page in the middle of the song in Chrome and got a warning popup about leaving the page that was completely uncloseable by clicking on either option. I had to kill Chrome processes one by one until I randomly hit that tab :(
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thornofmightalmost 11 years ago
Very nice! It&#x27;d be cool if this could be turned into a type of flashcard, quiz site where users could upload some sort of config file with questions, answers, images, video and then test their knowledge of the subject.
rohunatialmost 11 years ago
After getting to level 6, I was like screw this, I just want to listen to some Ye.<p>good work though!
stefbowermanalmost 11 years ago
Really fun to play. My only comment is that when the song starts playing, the answers to choose from get animated in, and the timer is down at least 10% by the time the last option is clickable.
danielsamuelsalmost 11 years ago
If you don&#x27;t know the answer, you&#x27;re better off choosing any option at the end of the timer to lose minimal points vs losing the full 150 for not answering.
mankydalmost 11 years ago
Small bug: pressing the back button does not stop the music.
deweyalmost 11 years ago
If you are wondering why the music isn&#x27;t playing, disable&#x2F;pause ad-block and it&#x27;ll work. At least that did the trick for me.
swineflualmost 11 years ago
Very funny and well done. Reminds me of <a href="http://binb.nodejitsu.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;binb.nodejitsu.com</a>
swangalmost 11 years ago
1. Can&#x27;t stop music after round. 2. Got two selections of &quot;Run This Town&quot; for the hovtest<p>Really cool format though.
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georialmost 11 years ago
I had a good time with it. Got #8 on Kanye. Whoever is higher up on the list is clicking incredibly fast.
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iDemonixalmost 11 years ago
I just lost 15 minutes of my life becoming a God of Eminem.<p>Really nice UI, was really smooth, no complaints, nice work.
beamatronicalmost 11 years ago
Great design, very entertaining, and you put a big smile on my face. Thank you for sharing!
sbilsteinalmost 11 years ago
Oh jeez this is so distracting and fun, I need to do some work today. Great job!
niixalmost 11 years ago
Cool concept, turned me on to some songs I&#x27;ve never heard before.
tcwatrousalmost 11 years ago
It would be nice to see the individual test leaderboards.
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ultimatedelmanalmost 11 years ago
This is really fun. Well done :)
mathgeekalmost 11 years ago
Really needs a NSFW warning.
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dcalaccialmost 11 years ago
This is awesome. Great job.
possibilisticalmost 11 years ago
Nick texted me and told me to check HN. This is fantastic--totally kick ass, Dany! Congrats!
rakalmost 11 years ago
This was fun. Great app.
hxwalmost 11 years ago
This is pretty cool! :)
imwhimsicalalmost 11 years ago
Good job, Danny :)
yoshkoalmost 11 years ago
This?! <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/21-year-old-college-dropout-raptest-2014-6" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;21-year-old-college-dropout-r...</a>
n0bodyalmost 11 years ago
stupid. i only know who kanye &amp; eminem is, never heard of the others and i&#x27;ve been listening to hip-hop all my life. although, it&#x27;s not this pop hip-hop that&#x27;s currently in fashion.<p>get some real artists on there, then we&#x27;ll talk
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