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Another Finish line

Wow. I think this next big step is what completes the app.

Anything after this will over complicate things. But my last steps are this:

 Playlist - a community playlist of chords in the order of songs that you can practice and play. 
+ you don't need to manually enter something if you can find it
+ lots of people contributing 

Custom - hear the chords before they flash. An option to save decks in an advanced version of the screen
+ allows personalization at a basic level

The only thing is that people will probably prefer the custom saved chords over the community chords, but whatever. The playlist community was really just a workaround for this custom screen thing that I'm just gonna try and ship.

 Kind of like when I had just started, with the Styles button. It was a workaround for Playlist, building custom chord decks. But I ended up keeping the feature anyway because it's fun to try. 

It's funny how simple my guitar apps look compared to what's coming. This next update feels big and I'm excited for it. A big update with a lot of potential for big bugs... yikes... but hey, it works well enough for now so... 

 

fuck it.

 

That's been my mantra the entire time of building this app, and it feels good to reconnect with it. I'm excited for all the coding stuff to be "done". Closer to done now than when I'm there. 

Creative outlets are great and all, but all this buildup makes me feel like blowing a fuse. Man I have so much shit to do. 

It's gonna be so cool. Then maybe when I'm done... I'll finally have the time to use it again. Ha.

 

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