Show HN: Chirpy – Realtime data audiolization(chirpy.io)

10 pointsby tomfrewvor 11 Jahren9 comments

Show HN: Chirpy – Realtime data audiolization

http://chirpy.io/

5 comments

an_kovor 11 Jahren

This is great! Ambient data can be really powerful. I'd never thought about it before, but having a little sense for how many users are on my sites and what they're doing would be hugely motivating.

I once wrote a command-line program that would take the first n bytes of every file in the new directory and pipe them to sox to create a sound unique to the directory contents. It was good enough for a while that I could recognise projects I was working on by the sound of their root directories, but of course required headphones and the glitch sound was quite hard on the ears…

tomfrewvor 11 Jahren

Thanks! I've had it running in the background for a few days and it's REALLY motivating to hear peaks in app useage.

Interesting... I'll have to play around with way to manipulate the sounds based on the data. Thanks for the feedback!

sgentlevor 11 Jahren

This is pretty fun. I think it would be better if the sounds were in some way related to the data. If you were using the web audio api you could do something nuts like hash any event text fields into synthesizer parameters so each event has a unique sound and scale the volume using numeric fields so it gets louder when your numbers get bigger.

Really cool idea though!

tomfrewvor 11 Jahren

Thanks!

I really like the idea of connecting the sounds to the data. Need to get playing with the web audio api!!

tomjacobsvor 11 Jahren

Weekend project? Tell more people about it. I just made something called glitch club that is sorta like "Show HN" on steroids. Show us Chirpy via video if you have the chance: http://glitchclub.com

tomfrewvor 11 Jahren

A weekend project I created to monitor activity of an app we just launched. Chirpy generates audio melody from your realtime analytics data. You an quite literally listen to your users!

Chirpy is still in the early stages (especially the tracking modules) but really interested to see what you guys think!

jgaudettevor 11 Jahren

This is awesome, I love the simplicity of it as well. Agree with others that more sounds would be great as well. Give some basics away as a free tier and make a higher tier that includes more sounds.

Great job!

tomfrewvor 11 Jahren

Thanks! Glad you like it.

Yeah been thinking about a paid tier with more customisability. Do you think it's something you would pay (a small monthly amount) for?

jgaudettevor 11 Jahren

For my personal hobbies I wouldn't want to pay, but I could definitely see using this for my team. Dashing is prevalent throughout my company (we have them on TV's throughout the office), so if you monetize toward that angle, perhaps as an already baked widget that would definitely be appealing as well.