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Digging Music
A music analysis, archive, and community project.
What I Learned While Opening Digging Music
A reflection on what I learned from spending 18 months building and launching Digging Music: product focus, simplification, user testing, automation, and execution pressure.
Designing Wiki Automation for Digging Music
A technical reflection on designing an LLM-based automation pipeline for Digging Music's lyric translation, annotation, song introduction, and trivia generation.
What Hackathons Taught Me About Building, Research, and Collaboration
Over the past year, several hackathons and ideathons taught me what research tools feel like in practice, how ideas become persuasive, and how quickly a focused team can build something real.
Adding Google Analytics to Digging Music
A short operating note on adding Google Analytics to Digging Music and starting to track visitors and pageviews.
Improving UI, UX, and the Lyrics Database in Digging Music
A product and engineering update on improving Digging Music's main screen, community navigation, wiki editing UX, lyrics database structure, and migrating more than 25,000 line objects.
Launching Digging Music
A launch note on publicly sharing Digging Music for the first time after 18 months of building, then facing early reactions, bugs, authentication issues, and the next operational priorities.
Planning Digging Music Development with Bubble.io
An early development note on choosing Bubble.io for Digging Music, covering the advantages of no-code tools, platform limitations, workarounds, and community resources.
Market Research for Digging Music
An early market research note for Digging Music, covering SEO, participation, fandom structure, text-based discovery, and revenue models.