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If you collect techno, trance, or house, you know that vinyl labels are a beautiful, chaotic mess. Between the giant label logos, the tiny copyright warnings, the obscure remixer credits, and the complete lack of standardised formatting, building a scanner to read physical records is a nightmare. Standard barcode scanners fail on white labels, and…
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Stand in front of your shelves. Hundreds of 12-inch’ techno, house and trance staring back at you. How do you organise them? Alphabetical? Genre? Label? Year of release? – Maybe you need to take a look at crAte
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I just finished 2 big feature updates, unfortunately, these missed the last update to the closed test, but will be in the next release. I am excited to share these features with you. Building crAte in public means I get to build the exact tools I actually need when I’m digging through my own records,…
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I’m sitting here finally pushing this update to the testing track, and I wanted to take a minute to talk about what’s actually inside version 1.0.1. If you’ve been following the progress of crAte, you know I’m building this entirely in public. That means you’ve seen the highs, the frustrating platform limitations, and the specific…
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There is an old startup adage: if your idea is okay, you’ll have to force people to pay attention. If your idea is great, it will be copied immediately. I just didn’t expect it to happen before the app was released or before I even hit the “Launch” button on my Kickstarter page. On Tuesday,…
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If you read my last post, Solving the Shelf, you know exactly the physical limitation that birthed crAte. A vinyl record can only sit in one physical space on your shelf. As collectors, we all have our preferred, rigid sorting systems, do you group by release year, cluster by label, or just go strict alphabetical…
