Umaro
An interactive music theory suite for guitarists
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HN · launched Jan 11, 2026 · 17 upvotes (top 37%) · 1 view
Niche: music education and practice apps · 185 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▼ -36% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Education
- Vertical SaaS
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes Umaro is an interactive web-based music theory and visualization application (fretboard, piano keys, circle of fifths, metronome) which relies on well-documented music math and standard Web Audio APIs.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Missing jazz scales (altered, bebop), Missing jazz chord voicings (drop 2, rootless, etc.), Rhythm trainer rhythms seem incorrect (Cuban claves), Metronome doesn't sync with rhythm playback
Feature requests: Add playback/audio for chord progressions, Add playback/audio for musical modes, Fix visual-audio syncing tightness, Expand rhythm trainer examples
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1331 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #475 of 1332 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 73 days after the earliest competitor.
- Sixstringer · ph · 2026-11-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- leadsheet.fm · github · 2026-09-24 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- omatune · github · 2026-09-14 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- A small, simple music theory library in C99 · hn · 2026-02-19 · 57 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Linum · hn · 2026-02-25 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- encore-music-notation · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Miditui · hn · 2026-01-08 · 66 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- llm-music · github · 2026-10-11 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.61
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