To all my homies
commenting in hacker news
I just brought a little rhyme
that it helped me do
Cause when I bust all around
even PG looks
and every hacker here says
Go orange go.
And as I type this
I dont know what else to do
so give me a mic
and Ill show you how its done
Its not about being the best
or simply two plus two
but being a *killa*
when it comes
to committing code.
So check out my github
and star a thing or two
plus fork my repos
but hey, no pycon stuff
And as I finish up rhymes
and downvotes creep
I say hola to my peeps
and go back to work.
I've got people in the Delaware D.O.C.
I send 'em 89 bucks, they send me equity!
Collaborate or compete, 'til HN's header goes sable
I'll put a cap in your ass
or put your ass in a cap table.
The "try hovering over the numbers on the side" bit is odd to me, if I'm going through the intro, I know what those numbers are. I ended up hovering over them expecting to get more details, and just got a label.
Yeah man, add more syllables
Then it'll be billable
Send me an invoice and it'll be fillable
With more rhymes available
You'll need to make it scaleable,
'cause when a saas is failable
it'll be hard to pitch it
your users will ditch it
instead of pitching in to help
they'll be bitchingin' for help
sucking all your time away from development
yup, it's a crime, when you see where it hella went
I got deliberate rhymes inside the lines
I'm not illiterate, but words blow my mind
I'm here killin' it, but I'm not just killin' time
Because I'm willin' it: this creation is mine.
Honestly, it's awesome man! The only thing I can think of is a "replay" button next to the instrumental, so when it's done you can start it over. I only figured out to do that by clicking in the yellow progress bar close to the beginning. I am gonna use the hell out of this though - sweet idea.
The first instrumental that it played for me was "Shook Ones Pt. 2 Instrumental" by Mobb Deep, off of their Infamous album. That's in my personal top 10 list of favorite hip hop albums, and was super excited that this site somehow knew that ;)
On a side note, this is really clever. I love being able to quickly pull a random instrumental. The syllable counts are on point too, and it's nice that it makes you mix up the tempo of your flow.
Great job!
- edit: The landing page is great that it has a huge "Try it" button, but I actually went back to watch the video on the homepage thinking it would show me some examples, but it was some dude rapping instead. He's good, but not really my cup of tea at all. If I didn't click the "Try it" link and only clicked on the video, I would have most likely bounced.
Yeah, my bad. It's been mentioned before, but the landing page video is completely irrelevant, it's really just a placeholder. I don't know what other video to put there, maybe one day I can pay someone to make a tutorial vid.
Looks like it's taking lines from other songs that match a certain algorithm. There is already 2 other songs with the line "This is no trial, this a closed case" on rapgenious.com plus actual production songs on lyric databases with the same line.
This is awesome! The drake video on the landing page was confusing/pointless to me, and I agree with zackbloom's comment about hovering over the numbers on the side. Other than that, really great idea & execution.
Yes I found the homepage confusing, and almost clicked away. I think this should be the homepage: http://rappad.co/editor. Just my opinion. I love the site. Nice work.
Hey, I saw you show this off at MHacks and I was deeply impressed with you then and to see that you have taken it even further is great. Good job and hopefully have a great product launch!
Also, I have a suggestion. You are already using emails as ids, why not use Persona?
Great job! I love this and I'd love to collaborate, I own rap.io and want to build something very similar but with more of a social twist. Hit me up if you are interested in talking. E-mail's in my profile.
I would love to help out with this. It's an area of deep personal interest for me. I've got homepage/contact links in my hn profile. I'll write in a bit.
You were right about my Flash being out of date. I upgraded, and now it kind of works. A video loads, but it only plays if I click on the link that takes me to Youtube in a new window or tab.
Even if that’s a tiny bit inconvenient, it’s still neat that I can write one little rhyme about probabilistic estimators, click Freestyle 16 times, and then hear a song about buying whores from a store, going to war, poverty, prison time, heartbreak and exercise. All to the beat of “Hate it or Love it”, by The Game. Or maybe instead to the beat of “You Don’t Know My Name”, by Alicia Keys.
I disagree. "Write better lyrics" cuts right to the emotional need. I want to write better lyrics. "Write lyrics better," without further context, could refer to penmanship. It's a less impactful phrasing.
"Write better lyrics" implies your lyrics are in need of improvement. I'll let you be the one to tell your favorite artist that they can write better lyrics with RapPad.
