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A record player simulated from the groove up
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GITHUB · launched Nov 8, 2026 · 128 upvotes (top 35%) · 0 views
Niche: desktop music players · 99 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -29% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- 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?
Partial The web player UI and audio playback are easy to vibe-code, but the core feature, simulating a record groove to produce audio, requires physical and DSP modelling expertise that vibe coding won't supply.
What it would actually take: The app side (WebAudio playback, a turntable UI, precompiled assets loaded with fetch) is standard front-end work. The hard piece is the signal chain: scanning or modelling groove geometry, converting it to audio with physically informed filters and noise, and tuning it to sound convincing. That requires audio DSP and vinyl mastering knowledge plus high-quality source data.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1273 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #409 of 1274 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 374 days after the earliest competitor.
- spin-it-again · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- pianoroll · github · 2026-09-21 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- cassette · github · 2026-09-13 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- hear-media-tool · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- mixtape2 · github · 2026-09-20 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- I made a music player inspired by late 90s peer-to-peer sharing · hn · 2026-08-01 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- needle · github · 2026-11-04 · 84 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- cf-mp3-player · github · 2026-09-27 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.60
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