Inspiration
Current music suggestion services verbose and force the user to think in computer-centric categories. Other approaches require harvesting large amounts of data before attempting to become effective. I've decided on a new approach. I've always felt that often I don't even consciously realize what I want to listen to - so let's tap into our subconscious.
What it does
The user gets sets of images flashed in front of them. They are encouraged to press very quickly (F for right image, J for left). The "idea" is whichever picture they ".
The backend uses cosine similarity as algorithm to detect similarity between sets of preferences. This has a couple of advantages:
- Nonresponse can be easily modeled as 0 (-1 for left pic, 1 for right), allowing for time constrained image selection to still produce valid data.
- Scales well with variable amounts of pictures.
- Gives a rigorous, objective result to the question of "how close" two sets of preferences are.
Our database is built with each user. This means I do not have to curate or create much data; it is organically grown.
How I built it
I used Mongo, Node, and Express
Challenges I ran into
JavaScript is a great language!
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Getting it to work
What I learned
JavaScript is a great language!
What's next for MusicallyMe
Much better UI/UX. Many pain points for users currently. Better optimized data structures in backend, currently using default Mongo settings.
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