Side B

Music discovery, simplified. One album a day that you review and save to your shelf. Built in one weekend.

Each day it serves a single album, the same for every listener, meant to be played start to finish. Once you've heard it all the way through, you can review it and save it to your shelf, a growing collection of the records you've actually finished.

It has three parts: an animated opening screen, a Today view for the day's album with in-browser playback and a live tracklist, and the shelf, a 3D gallery of everything you've listened to.

Streaming gave us instant access to nearly all recorded music, but it optimised away the friction that used to surround listening: choosing a record, holding it, sitting with it front to back, building a shelf of things you'd chosen. Those frictions were never just friction, they were how we paid attention.

Now infinite choice and algorithmic feeds make music feel disposable. You skip after thirty seconds, let a playlist decide, and rarely experience an album as a complete work.

It is opinionated by design: you can't skip tracks, you can't jump back, and you can only review an album once you've listened the whole way through. The friction is the point. Albums you finish are added to the shelf, a collection you build over time and walk back through, the digital echo of a record shelf. The whole interface treats listening as something you show up for rather than something that happens in the background, which is where the name comes from: a record has a Side B, and you have to choose to flip it.

I'm aware of the irony. This is a digital app trying to recover something digital convenience took away. It can't return the weight of a record in your hands, but it can return the ritual around it: a deliberate choice, a full listen, a collection you build.