A lightweight music webapp we built in 12 hours

In plain words

A lightweight music webapp built in 12 hours using Ruby on Rails and Heroku. It integrates with the Soundcloud API to let users discover, favorite, and curate playlists on mobile and desktop. The app features user accounts, email list signup via Mailchimp, and lean styling. It's designed for music listeners who want a simple tool to manage and share their favorite tracks.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

In the maker’s words, at launch

A buddy and I decided to hack on this little project this weekend, putting in about 12 hours. It's running Ruby on Rails, deployed to Heroku. We tried to keep things super lean with different gems handling user accounts, mailchimp for an email list and super lean styling/layout. Everything should work well…

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