GM. This is Needs to Exist (aka NTE), we gave you Letterboxd for YouTube last week and now why not Letterboxd for Music?

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• Daily Idea - Letterboxd for Music

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Track, rate, and share music.

The One Liner

Music reviews and playlists. Together.

The 140 character tweet (or X) version

Tired of endless scrolling on Spotify? Log, rate, and review music like Letterboxd does for movies. Discover new tunes. Build playlists. Connect.

The Longer Story Version

The Problem
Streaming music is easy. But how do you keep track of all the bangers you hear?

Let’s say you stumble on an underrated album or a track that moves your soul. How do you save the vibe, rate it, and share your thoughts? Sure, Spotify’s got playlists, but it’s messy. Reviews? Nope.

Music fans deserve more than just "Here’s your Daily Mix 6."

What’s missing? A way to track your listening, rate your favorites, and discover new music through your circle. You want your own music journey mapped out—a digital vibe diary.

The Solution
What if you had a Letterboxd for music?

Here’s how it works:

1. Log what you listen to. Tracks, albums, even live sessions. Build your own music timeline.

2. Rate and review. Share your hot takes. Loved it? Overrated? Let people know.

3. Discover more. The app suggests new music based on your listens and other users you follow.

4. Connect with the community. Music lovers like you are making playlists, posting reviews, and sparking convos.

This isn’t just another playlist app. It’s the music space for people who care about more than algorithms.

How We’d Build It

1. Data Integration: Spotify and Apple Music APIs for play tracking and discovery.

2. Brainpower: Collaborative filtering AI (like Spotify’s recommendations) to suggest songs and albums based on user activity.

3. Frontend: Webflow, Flutter, or React Native for slick app UX.

4. Gamification: Achievements like "100 albums reviewed" or "10 unique genres explored."

5. Community Features: User profiles, playlists, reviews, and badges—think Reddit meets Discogs.

6. Analytics Dashboard: A snapshot of your listening habits—hours listened, top genres, and "Most Played Artist of the Year."

Why It Needs to Exist
Because music is personal.

Streaming services are designed to keep you scrolling, not vibing. But your music story deserves to be told—by you.

This tool creates a digital haven for music fans, turning your passion for tunes into conversations, connections, and endless discovery.

You don’t need to be an influencer. You just need a love for music. This app does the rest.

Let’s give music fans the app they've been waiting for. Every listen, logged. Every opinion, shared. Every vibe, amplified.

Ideas Guys Are Now The Winners

Look, you know that old saying: “Ideas are cheap, execution is everything”?

Well, throw it in the trash. It’s dead.

Execution just got cheap. AI has leveled the playing field. What used to take teams of people and months of work can now happen in days or even hours. Tools like ChatGPT, Bubble, and Zapier mean you don’t need a massive team or millions in funding to build something anymore.

The only thing separating winners from everyone else now? Ideas.

We’re Living in a Golden Age for Builders

You have two options:

1. Stay stuck in analysis paralysis while the world changes around you.

2. Embrace the chaos and build faster than ever before.

This post by Geoffrery Huntley is a must read.

The future belongs to idea guys who can just do things.

He mentioned big names that are already doing this. Sahil Lavingia (founder of Gumroad) shared that his team no longer builds products the old-school way. Instead, they brainstorm, let AI write the specs, clean things up, and have one engineer push it to production.

It’s like the cheat code for scaling.

I’m seeing the same thing everywhere:

• Startups prototyping entire products over a weekend.

• Solo creators launching newsletters or businesses in a few clicks.

• Companies automating tasks that used to require entire departments.

If you’re waiting for the "right time," news flash—it was yesterday. But today’s still good.

The 5 Stages of "Oh Sh*t, AI Is Here"

Companies and people go through these phases when they realize how powerful this stuff is:

1. Denial: "AI isn’t that good. Just hype."

2. Experimentation: "Hmm, let's mess around with it."

3. Panic: "Oh crap. AI is that good. Is my job safe?"

4. Re-evaluation: "We need to rethink our entire strategy."

5. Domination: "AI is now my sidekick. I’m building 10x faster."

The smart ones move quickly through these phases. The rest? They're about to get lapped.

This Is the Era of High-Agency People

Here’s the big secret: if you’re the kind of person who takes action and figures things out as you go, there has never been a better time to be alive.

Right now, AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude aren’t just helping—you can literally program them to work for you. You can build automations, prototypes, and even full products without touching a line of code. Hell, you could be managing an army of virtual assistants (a.k.a. LLMs) to solve every problem on your backlog.

The "ideas guy/gal" of the past had to beg for technical co-founders. Not anymore. Now, if you have an idea and just a tiny bit of tech savvy, you can launch.

Some tools you need to know:

• Bubble: Build apps without code.

• Zapier: Automate your workflows like a boss.

• Beehiiv / Sparkloop: Launch a newsletter and grow your audience.

• ChatGPT: Think of it as your brainstorming buddy and marketing machine.

Why We Built Needs to Exist

This is exactly why Needs to Exist is here. Ideas are everything now. We help people go from “I have a cool thought” to “I’m building something real.”

Look, the future’s moving fast. You can sit on the sidelines or you can jump in the game. Ideas aren’t just valuable—they’re everything now. The world rewards builders, and you’ve never had more tools to make things happen.

Time to make moves.

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