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Upbeat (https://www.upbeatapp.com/) -- hackernews meets soundcloud.

It's cool because:

* Users can democratically decide which music is popular.

* Music is browseable by genre, and filterable by sub genre.

* Users can save songs and add them to a queue for later listening.

* Powered by Angular.js, Node.js, Redis.

* Average server response time: 9ms

* Bootstrapped by 3 friends, in less than 1 month, only working nights and weekends.

* Already profitable.



How is it profitable? Do you get a commission from Amazon?




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