Songcraft – Online Songwriting Platform and Guitar Tab Builder
Hi HN! I'm Gabe, the creator of Songcraft (https://songcraft.io/home). I recently dove headfirst into songwriting, and I quickly grew frustrated with my process. I found songwriting difficult enough without having to wrangle a mess of different tools, and there's no great solution to build chord sheets and tabs (unless you love pure text input). So, I built Songcraft - an online songwriting platform and tab builder. The drag-and-drop editor makes it easy to jump from chords to lyrics to melodies. I added a chord progression generator and chord recommendation engine to ensure…
Songcraft – Online Songwriting Platform and Guitar Tab Builder launched on March 20, 2019 with 152 votes, #175 of 2,994 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
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Songcraft is an online platform for songwriting that consolidates multiple tools into one interface. It features a drag-and-drop editor for combining chords, lyrics, and melodies, along with a chord progression generator, chord recommendation engine, integrated tuner, rhyming dictionary, metronome, and audio recorder. The platform is designed for songwriters who want to streamline their creative process without switching between separate applications.
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Hi HN! I'm Gabe, the creator of Songcraft (https://songcraft.io/home). I recently dove headfirst into songwriting, and I quickly grew frustrated with my process. I found songwriting difficult enough without having to wrangle a mess of different tools, and there's no great solution to build chord sheets…
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