Scrappy Prototype to Usable Product

A little less than 3 weeks ago I was asked to DJ a company’s holiday party. Since I’ve DJ’ed at this company’s party before I knew the employees were going to request songs prior to the event. At the time, I was just dipping my feet into Ruby on Rails and thought it would be great exercise to build a simple web application that allows employees to request songs.

A week before the event I started building the project and I quickly learned that I under estimated the development time. For 4 days and 3 nights straight I was literally staying up until 5am working on a project I called SongRake. After getting the core idea of signing up and adding a song request working I released and sent a link over to the event coordinator at the office.

The result of this scrappy project was 65+ songs requested which ultimately helped me provide a better DJ service at their holiday party.

Today, Haji and I, are deciding to run with SongRake’s concept and productize it so that anyone can signup, create a playlist, and start collaborating with their friends on making a playlist to vibe to. As always we are going to keep it simple and fun.

Stay tuned when we release by going to SongRake — thanks!

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This post was published on December 23, 2011.