I made a music player inspired by late 90s peer-to-peer sharing
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HN · launched Aug 1, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 87%) · 0 views
Niche: desktop music players · 99 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -29% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Marketplace
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 99 launches in desktop music players →
Could you build this?
Yes This is a nostalgic frontend UI built with HTML/CSS/JS and the Web Audio API that accesses the local filesystem to play music files.
Discussion
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1002 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #883 of 1003 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 271 days after the earliest competitor.
- mixtape2 · github · 2026-09-20 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.74
- cassette · github · 2026-09-13 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- mygo-music · github · 2026-11-04 · 954 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Vynody · hn · 2026-10-01 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware · hn · 2026-05-09 · 123 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- kraken-player · github · 2026-09-16 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- spotish · github · 2026-11-08 · 69 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- chilpa · github · 2026-09-25 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.64
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