What you get
Fourteen things all of this would give you. A lot of them overlap. That’s the part I find exciting.
What’s been interesting to me is that these nine ideas share the same small set of parts, just arranged differently. Once the first one exists, each of the others is much easier to build.
I worked this out by listing the parts each of the nine ideas needs, then counting which parts keep coming back. Fourteen did.
Tap any line to see how it works.
01 Your jam stays in the park. Private
Nothing you play, queue or record leaves the handful of devices in front of you. There is no upload step you could forget to switch off.
02 The laptop on the blanket is the whole service. No bill
No account, no region, no monthly bill. You close it and the night is over.
03 A tracklist somebody else can check. Verifiable
When you send a set home with a friend, they can confirm it came from that night without having to take your word for it.
04 What was played, in what order, fixed. Tamper-evident
Change one row afterwards and the record visibly breaks. That’s what makes it worth keeping.
05 It tells you what it does not prove. Honest
The record shows a sequence played on a device. It does not claim you were in the room, and it says so on its own face.
06 The room disappears when you close the tab. Nothing lingers
Nothing lingers anywhere afterwards except the record of the session, and only if you wanted one.
07 Every guest gets their own copy. No collisions
Two people can dig through the same crate at the same time without stepping on each other.
08 The set assistant runs on your machine. On your machine
No key to buy, no pause while it phones somewhere, and no request leaving the house.
09 It knows your library, not a catalogue. Yours
Suggestions come out of what you actually own and have actually played, so they sound like you rather than like a chart.
10 Open it and speak. Instant
Nothing sits between the thought and the recording, which is the only reason a walking thought ever gets caught.
11 The voice note is already sorted when you get home. No filing
You don’t file it. It’s waiting for you as something you can use.
12 Hand the decks to a seven year old. Safe to share
They can touch everything and break nothing, including your cue points.
13 You say once what it is allowed to touch. You set limits
The limits are set by you at the start, not enforced by somebody watching over a shoulder.
14 The queue is a file you can open. Readable
Guests add to it, you read it with your own eyes, and there is no service sitting in between.