I remember that, and I remember playing a game with my girlfriend at the time where we tried to get it to recognize any song we hummed. We had an in-joke where Smooth Operator was literally the only song we could get it to recognize.
This isn't just "big tech replicating a commonplace feature", it's big tech implementing it at all where little tech could not.
This is a common fetishization on HN, but HNers forget that execution is all that really matters. Little tech demos do not. Though we on HN act like tech demos are the hardest part.
> This isn't just "big tech replicating a commonplace feature", it's big tech implementing it at all where little tech could not.
Well I guess our experiences were quite different then. I was able to get SoundHound to recognize the vast majority of the tunes I hummed for it back in 2008/2009. And I used it a lot. I did only choose popular songs though. It's not surprising IMHO that a company 12 years later with much greater resources could extend recognition to a much larger variety of songs. So I wouldn't call it "little tech could not."
This isn't just "big tech replicating a commonplace feature", it's big tech implementing it at all where little tech could not.
This is a common fetishization on HN, but HNers forget that execution is all that really matters. Little tech demos do not. Though we on HN act like tech demos are the hardest part.