Yesterday was the kickoff for Nights & Weekends S5.

Although I’ve participated in Nights & Weekends before it was while I was employed full time and side projects were frowned upon. So I’m all in this time!

60K people applied to be part of S5, and although we don’t know how many were accepted, over 15K people joined the live stream for kickoff. Only 20% will make it thru and actually complete the program, which would mean about 3000 new creations will shared over the next 6 weeks.

What to build?

I have 3 ideas for apps that I was thinking about building, and after doing a poll on Twitter I could end up doing all 3, but after watching the kickoff I’ve been inspired to start with the a music related app.

After Covid lock-downs ended my family and I started going to more music concerts. In the days/weeks leading up to the concert I’d end up listening to a lot of the music from the artists we were going to see.

I started to think about an app that could automatically build a daily playlist that would create a mix of music for all the artists we had tickets for. The playlist could create an intelligent list based on what artists usually played live, and changed the number of songs from each artists based the dates we were seeing them.

The app will create its playlists in Spotify, we’ve had a family plan for years and lots of listening history to help build the lists, and will integrate with other services to build smart playlists.

Keeping the features small especially for the MVP, but lots of places to take the app in the future.

That’s all for today, but in the coming days I’ll be sharing details of turning the idea into a functioning app, all the decisions I make and maybe even the code.

Would love to know what you think of the idea, hit reply and let me know.

Thanks,
Mubs