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9 points by MeoMix420 ↗ HN
Hey everyone,

I'm a young developer with a penchant for music and quality software. I have spent the last 16 months developing an open-source Google Chrome extension which attempts to simplify the experience of using YouTube to play music.

Streamus: http://streamus.com/

Streamus currently has 14,000 users and is the #1 trending / #4 ranked 'fun' extension in the web store. I've built it entirely from scratch while teaching myself the basics of BackboneJS (and Backbone.Marionette), RequireJS, GruntJS and many other, smaller libraries. It has been a great learning experience.

I would love to field any questions about the product, challenges encountered while creating it, etc. Really anything you'd like to know -- I'm all ears and super excited to discuss it.

Here's all the source code if that's your thing:

  https://github.com/MeoMix/StreamusChromeExtension
  https://github.com/MeoMix/StreamusWebsite
  https://github.com/MeoMix/StreamusServer

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MeoMix420
Alrighty. Well, I'm disappointed nobody has any questions, but hope to continue to improve the software and maybe someone will take interest another day. :)
neduma
Like it so far..
MeoMix420
Hooray! Let me know if you think I should change anything!
sirrocco
Awesome extension - It would be nice if I could add a youtube mix. For example if I go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlcIKh6sBtc I see a mix starting from this song. I'd like to play that mix. I don't know if there's a way to do that.

Great job.

MeoMix420
Hey,

Yep. I am working on it. YouTube mixes utilize YouTube's V3 API (exclusively) where as most of their data can be access via the V2 or V3 API. When I first started working on the project V3 wasn't out yet and it has been slow become a production worthy API, but I'm hearing better things about it now and am certainly planning on revisiting the code.

Here's a GitHub issue from 4 months ago for you to track the issue: https://github.com/MeoMix/StreamusChromeExtension/issues/30

I'm glad you like it otherwise! :)

sirrocco
Cool, keep up the good work.
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codesai
Can you advise me on how to proceed using the stuff I learn?

How did you learn these stuff and used it to make a product ?

How to practise the programming stuff one learns?for eg I am currently learning javascript and jquery library,Can you suggest on how I may improve my skills?

talhof8
I love it, this is awesome. I wish there would be a fast "play next" feature. Great job, kudos!
junq34
MeoMix - this is an awesome app. You said you taught yourself the libraries. I have an engineering background, and a little bit of programming (VB) - how long will it take to learn to code a chrome extension and any recommendations on websites to help with this ? thanks !