A song, or a subject. One line.
That's the whole app.
You hear a song. You write one tweetable line on one of its elements — the title, the lyrics, the canvas video, the album art, the music itself — how it relates to you, without giving your full idea away. That's a take. Here's a real one, dissected:
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That's the whole discipline: know the song, relate to it, don't give the whole idea away. Reading it while the record plays, you'll think of your own version — that's the point.
the five parts of a song
A take is shown with its song — that is the rule, so the site does it for you: open a take and the needle drops on its own — 30 seconds, looping, right there. Every take is stamped with the element it comments on:
where that line can live
Every take, printed over its record. Re-dealt at midnight — same order for everyone, all day.
▶ hear 30s right on the card · ▲ i see it too · 5 votes makes it the laureate
The wall at full volume: one take fills the screen and its song plays while you read. Scrolling swaps the singer.
swipe up for the next · double-tap = ▲ · tap once for the take
Kept for the artist: every line listeners filed on your songs, and which part of the song it was about. A work in progress.
read by artist · one part of the song at a time
Every take on the wall distills into one personality. It reads any song on demand, in the community’s voice.
watch it read · or audition against it, scored 0–100
the loop
You write the wall. The wall trains Hermit. Hermit is an API — try every door free, live. Lines others see too earn signal (standing, can't be bought) and credits (more fresh reads). Your best line becomes its song's pull-quote.