Qavvali Wiki
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Hey folks — I’ve been working on this pet project for the last few months, and would love some feedback.Qavvali (or Qawwali) is a South Asian genre that I’ve been passionate about for a while, and I’d love to introduce it to as many folks as I can. There are many aspects of the genre that I love, and I can go into depth if anyone is interested. AMA — happy to reply in the comments.Meanwhile, my primary reason for sharing this here is that I’d love feedback on the website, as well as to see if anyone would be interested in helping — be it technical, or more so with curation. I’d really appreciate it. One of the core features I’ve worked on extensively is mapping lineages. The goal is to enrich the website with more reliable resources, ideally from available academic or literary sources, and compile and collate them into a one-stop place for anyone interested in the genre.
HN · launched May 24, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: digital history and reference archives · 150 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -57% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial The wiki web platform and interactive lineage tree visualization are straightforward to code, but curating the cultural, historical, and genealogical data of Qawwali performers requires domain-expert musicology research.
What it would actually take: The software architecture is a standard web application (e.g., Next.js or Django) with D3.js or Cytoscape.js to render genealogical and pedagogical graph trees. The hard part is acquiring, translating, cross-referencing, and curating decades of unindexed Sufi musical lineages, classical poetry attributions (Urdu/Persian/Punjabi), and archival audio metadata. Executing this requires sustained human domain expertise in South Asian ethnomusicology.
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