Swipe Stack
Flip through your friends' recommendations Tinder-style, swiping right after a preview to save a song to a Spotify-linked Listen Later playlist, or left to pass.
Music · Social
HearMeOut
Make your musical opinion heard. Send recs, give ratings, put your friends on.
The problem
My friends and I were always trading songs, but it all happened across scattered texts and word of mouth where great recommendations got buried. I wanted a Letterboxd for music, but couldn't find any.
The insight
Recommending music should feel as easy and addictive as swiping through a feed. Make the act of discovering a friend's pick genuinely fun, and people will actually press play instead of letting recs pile up unheard.
What HearMeOut does
HearMeOut turns sharing and discovering music into a swipeable, social experience, linked to your Spotify and Last.fm so every recommendation has a home.
The Work
Share music with friends
Folders & List
See every recommendation at once and sort them into custom folders like Must-Listen or Listen Later.
Feed
A social tab that blends your friends' activity with your incoming recommendations in card or list view.
Dig into your own listening
Profile
Your listening history at a glance, from most recently played to your most-streamed tracks over the last week, month, six months, or year.
Explorer
Weekly genre collections, full search, ratings and reviews, plus a daily Editors' Choice of five songs from my own playlists.
Ratings
Leave your ratings out of 5 stars on your favorite (or least favorite) songs to tell people how you really feel.
Outcome
HearMeOut started as a project for my cross-platform mobile design class, and I kept building on it afterward more as a passion project.
Full description
HearMeOut grew out of a simple habit. My friends and I were always trading songs, and those recommendations kept getting lost in the noise of group chats. I wanted a place where sharing music felt like its own thing, engaging enough that you'd actually listen.
The core is a stackable swipe list. Every recommendation from your friends lands in one deck you flip through like Tinder, previewing each track before you save it or pass. I linked accounts to Spotify so saved songs flow straight into a Listen Later playlist, and used Last.fm to pull in previews and real listening stats, so your profile becomes a quick way to resurface a song you love instead of searching for it for the hundredth time. Around all of that, the Explorer tab keeps things fresh with weekly genre collections and a daily Editors' Choice.
It started as a class project, but it ended up teaching me how much a good interaction model can shape behavior. Turning a recommendation into a swipe made people more likely to actually listen, and that small design lever is the kind of thing I keep chasing.