Show HN: Spotify and Apple Health data as art

pcybr | 40 points

These Spotify visualizations are from the same app that went viral earlier this year among Swifties: https://x.com/PobBase/status/1796603662275694919

And the OP is too humble to flog it, but he also writes a cool newsletter about developing the app over at https://ngenart.substack.com/

Source: I am the OP's brother!

riwsky | 20 hours ago

Very cool! I've been playing around with exporting my twitter archive & visualizing it/finding semantic clusters/changes in my beliefs over time etc. There's a couple initiatives of people making their personal data publicly accessible/building tools on top of it:

[1] https://www.community-archive.org/ [2] https://www.openhumans.org/

OmarShehata | 20 hours ago

I tried it and it’s funny. I liked the Highscore output. But the distance is only measured in miles. As a metric person this saddens me :). Keep up the work. I also like these kinds of visualizations.

larusso | a day ago

Thanks. That looks amazing. I wish there was an app which can use last.fm data, as it can collect listening data from various sources. Btw. your privacy policy is missing an E-Mail address: Email: [Your Contact Email] There should also be a space between "December" and 2024 in the top of the page. Also the linked Instagram account doesn't seem to work.

The app and visualizations are great. Keep up the good work. Do you have a Mastodon/Fediverse account to follow your progress on the development?

eimann | 21 hours ago

Interesting stuff.

Would be VERY interested in having visualizations of Apple Music data. I've had 20+ years to build up pretty significant play history.

Certainly being able to look into every type of health data would yield interesting insights.

One minor thing that does bug me: US date format. Probably be better to default to whatever short-date format is the user's preference in iOS. Same goes for metric/imperial.

Looking forward to seeing more visualizations!

suranyami | 12 hours ago

Nice! I don't use Spotify but the Apple Health ones are really cool :)

FYI it doesn't seem to work on macOS, it lets you install it from the Mac App Store and step through the onboarding but it seems like it doesn't have the Health data API you're using. It doesn't request access to anything and just carries on, then "get started" doesn't do anything.

On iOS it works great though! One small thing I noticed is that after the onboarding it was showing the health visualisations as still requiring me to connect. After a few taps it updated and worked though.

mcintyre1994 | 18 hours ago

This is very good! I love the creativity in the visualizations. Do you have any plans for Android?

fransjorden | 7 hours ago

It would be neat if it would take cycling from health - I’m the least capable runner that’s ever existed. Give me a bike and I might get somewhere.

Strava and Apple Music might be good additions.

lostlogin | 21 hours ago

I'd love to be able to pick data input myself! For example I swim and I might want to see my swimming pace or total distance for each month like a high score chart. Though many people are into different sports so being able to iterate all available Health data and having a dropdown would be great.

Keep up the good work!

can16358p | 19 hours ago

Looks interesting. Has an off-by-one error though; YTD steps receipt starts with December 2023. I'm in UTC+1.

bouke | 21 hours ago

This looks really cool! Do you have any plans for an Apple Music integration for those who use that over Spotify?

ishanmahapatra | 12 hours ago

Thank you. What a wonderful app and beautiful design.

peterchane | 21 hours ago