Last weekend we went to Music Hack Day, we met some amazing people and had a great time hacking for 24hrs. As mentioned in the previous post we planned to build a service for bands and artists to create their own web presence using content from different web services.
And we did it! Sleep deprived, but happy we nervously and swiftly presented Holodeck at 2 pm on Sunday, 24h after the hack started. At the moment it can get music from SoundCloud, gigs from Last.fm or Songkick and posts from Tumblr. We made an example site for our friend Marcus Price. This is how it looks:
We’re still working on a few glitches and bugs. But you can create your own presence using our default theme, choose which services you want to aggregate and edit your personal information. If you know HTML and CSS you can even create you own theme.
Some stuff coming up in the near future is template documentation, more services, a caching layer (to make everything superfast) and the ability to use your own domain.
Many thanks to Hannes and Matas from SoundCloud for their help with the API and their brand new JS player.
Holodeck even won SoundClouds price after the hack. Thanks! The prize? Flights to the next Music Hack Day! Any ideas on what to we should build then?
Check out Holodeck at http://holodeckapp.com and follow @holodeckapp for updates.
Let us know what you think and what we can do to make it better!