A melody search engine from Grammy-awarded producers
WEB AND MOBILE APPLICATIONS
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Industry
Music production
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Location
USA -
Working together since
May 2020
The Melody App is a young startup focused on unlocking the possibility for musicians, film and video producers, DJs, and multimedia designers to easily explore, access and share music loops and sounds.
The challenge
Finding beats and sound to create music is frustrating, immobile, and mostly leads to loss of inspiration and excitement. The client required a tailor-made solution to turn the process of discovering melodies into creative pleasure.
The solution
With an idea to create an intuitive melody search tool MindK team firstly built a Proof of Concept - a robust Progressive Web Application (PWA) performing great on various devices. After it was highly praised by the public, we developed a feature-rich web app together with mobile applications for iOS and Android. Users can now cycle through sounds from wherever they are, find them faster and easier while maintaining a high level of enthusiasm.
Simple and intuitive flow
In just a few clicks and no more than one minute, the users get access to the collection of the very best music sounds. Nothing in excess, only the must-have functions.
Discovering new sounds has never been more engaging. After a user logs in to the system, he/she selects several vibes or instruments. The records are filtered based on the preferences entered, all that remains for the user is to swipe until finding the proper melody loop. The sound can be saved into the library, downloaded, or shared with others right from the app.
Swipe and go functionality
With a set of instinctive swipes, the user can search for sounds on the go. Swipe down displays details, swipe up shares the sound by email. By swiping right and left, the user saves the melody or skips to the next one respectively.
To keep things smooth for all users, we implemented timely push notifications. This way members stay up to date with the latest melodies available, changes in subscription plan, regular payments, and other events. Integration with Stripe makes all in-app payments fast and secure.
Crafting personal collections
Once the user likes the sound, it is added to the personal list of saved melodies. This collection is easily accessible from the main menu, and can be shared as a whole or one melody at a time.
With this solution, the startup embarked on a path of making music production a more intuitive, fun, and fulfilling experience:
- A well-organized collection of hand-picked original sounds. Each melody comes with valuable details like the creator’s info, number of beats per minute, the key of a musical piece, etc.
- Descriptive dashboards for music creators and admins to track statistics of the melodies and loops.
- A producer dashboard provides in-depth analytics of how many times each melody was saved, sent, and denied.
- Smart and easy-to-use melody filtering that helps users save time by narrowing down the search.
- A Tinder-inspired user experience, where melodies are fed in rapid succession.
- An eye-catching equalizer-style visualization that moves dynamically with the melody playing.
- An ability for a user to create a personal library of selected melodies and share it with others by email or social media platforms.
Precious melody analytics presented clearly
Visually compelling widgets and dashboards enable creators and admins to keep track of melodies metrics and performance. They can find out a number of saved, listened, and shared sounds with only a few clicks.
Now the application allows:
- Access to the library of sounds from the palm of the hand
- Search and download original loops on the go with a couple of swipes
- Tracking of the melodies usage statistics for producers
- Finding what’s needed fast without loss of passion and excitement.
Services provided
Tech stack
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React for front-end development -
NodeJS for back-end
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PostgreSQL as a database
- React Native for mobile
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Docker for deploy and better
DevOps infrastructure -
AWS as a cloud storage
Value delivered
Starting with just an idea, MindK managed to create a basic version of the application in a short period of time. The application was highly praised both by the client and the investors. Today it already has thousands of active users who claim that this extremely intuitive and engaging app has revolutionized their concept of discovering melodies. We keep on improving the applications and creating even more pleasure from melody search.
37
days from idea to the first app
release
10,000+
installs on App Store and
Google Play
The project has been going smoother than I could have imagined and this is why we'll continue working with them in the future. It's the first time I've worked with a dev team a distance away that didn't have major (or any, for that matter) hiccups or have things lost in communication. I wish we could snatch them and make them a part of our team.
