I built a media link sharing platform. I started with my main problem, my wife uses Apple Music, I use Spotify, either of us want to change. I created MTShare to solve this problem.
I am now on v1.1.3 and the platform is growing nicely! It supports:
- direct quick share from Music platform to MTShare eg. Instead of Spotify -share-> WhatsApp you can do Spotify -share-> MTShare which converts and opens the share intent automatically ready to go to WhatsApp
- Share Playlists and Save playlists into YouTube, Apple Music (iOS only), Tidal
- Create playlists with your saved tracks within MTShare
- Universal links show events for the artist with geolocation, marking concerts at the top
- user pages with tracks and trends
- Support for Podcasts/Audiobooks
- Artist and Labels roles (this one needs a bit of road testing)
- MTListen - Shazam powered auto conversion of a track playing around you
- A nice and pleasant UI (at least I think)
- i18n translations
Above all, my goal is to keep it free for the community to use, no premium tiers, no monthly subscriptions.
My background is Linux systems, I am not a developer. I wanted a service that converts Spotify/Apple Music/YouTube links into universal ones. That meant a FastAPI backend, Next.js frontend, and React Native apps. Three codebases in tech I'd never used.
I used Claude to write the application code while I handled infrastructure (Docker, nginx, CI/CD, monitoring). The biggest lesson wasn't about AI generating code, it was about context management. A steering doc and a living todo.md turned the AI from a forgetful assistant into a consistent collaborator.
Total cost including Apple Developer fee, hosting, and a test Android phone: ~£410. Blog post covers the full breakdown, what it would cost without AI, and the "black box fear" of running code you didn't write.
I am now on v1.1.3 and the platform is growing nicely! It supports: - direct quick share from Music platform to MTShare eg. Instead of Spotify -share-> WhatsApp you can do Spotify -share-> MTShare which converts and opens the share intent automatically ready to go to WhatsApp - Share Playlists and Save playlists into YouTube, Apple Music (iOS only), Tidal - Create playlists with your saved tracks within MTShare - Universal links show events for the artist with geolocation, marking concerts at the top - user pages with tracks and trends - Support for Podcasts/Audiobooks - Artist and Labels roles (this one needs a bit of road testing) - MTListen - Shazam powered auto conversion of a track playing around you - A nice and pleasant UI (at least I think) - i18n translations
Above all, my goal is to keep it free for the community to use, no premium tiers, no monthly subscriptions.
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