RATS
Tag your DJ library by sound, and find what to buy next
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RATS is a desktop app for DJs with large, poorly-tagged libraries. It listens to every track on your own machine, labels genre, mood, instruments, and vocals, and proposes tags from what your library contains. Discovery searches about 18 million Beatport and Bandcamp tracks by sound, starting from a track, tag, or set you own. Tags and sets sync into Rekordbox, Serato, Engine DJ, and Lexicon. One $50 purchase for macOS and Windows, with a 14-day free trial.
PH · launched Oct 16, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 22%) · 2 views
Niche: audio editing and processing utilities · 217 launches, 23 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Search & retrieval
- Prosumer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Music
- DJing
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Could you build this?
Partial While local audio classification is feasible with open-source audio ML models in an Electron app, maintaining an audio-fingerprinted index of 18 million commercial tracks requires major web-scale indexing infrastructure.
What it would actually take: The desktop client would use Electron/Tauri with an ONNX/PyTorch audio embeddings model (e.g., CLMR or Essentia) to extract acoustic features from local files. The hard part is the discovery backend: constantly scraping, embedding, and indexing 18 million music tracks from Beatport and Bandcamp into a large-scale vector database (Milvus/Pinecone) with scalable acoustic similarity search. This requires music information retrieval (MIR) expertise and substantial data engineering pipelines.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 125 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #23 of 126 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 338 days after the earliest competitor.
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- DJ.Studio 5.0 · ph · 2026-11-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- BeatTag · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- GrooveTag · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- BeatName · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Musique · ph · 2026-09-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- AI is a DJ · hn · 2025-11-12 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.40
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