Tell HN: this is a startup I would use passionately if someone created it

3 points by sage_joch ↗ HN
(In case there are any legal questions, I hereby place this idea in the public domain... and I hope I'm not having a Michael Scott bankruptcy declaration moment.)

High-level description

  * A site for line-by-line song lyric analysis/commentary
  * Analyses are created and voted on by users
  * Lyrics are (probably) imported by the site owner, so voting mechanisms on "songs to import" should be provided for more obscure songs
  * The site makes money by providing links to purchase the songs (similarly to Pandora)
  * Users who want to analyze a song can provide line-by-line explanations and commentary
  * Users who want to understand a song can read a highly-voted analysis
  * Users who have just fallen in love with a song can purchase it on the spot
If this already exists, it doesn't exist on the scale that it could (or else every Google search for "$song analysis" would lead to that site). The idea came to me tonight when I wanted to really understand Stairway to Heaven, and was able to write out an interpretation of it line by line.

And yes, I realize the irony of really getting Stairway to Heaven and then immediately thinking about a startup opportunity.

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