I'm a DJ/TUI nerd and as much as I want to like this, I don't think the keyboard will ever be the right input or mode for DJing. Maybe my mental model is an outlier, but multi-point physical controls are critical for so much of what's happening while DJing — the master level controls, effects, cueing, individual track controls, and even just being able to physically manipulate playing tracks. It just doesn't map to a TUI, or perhaps more importantly, it just doesn't seem fun. How does the TUI transition this? What makes a TUI the right interface?

• l00sed

  today at 8:22 PM

  I think for algorave stuff it's great because I'm already at the keyboard, but I totally agree with you otherwise. I was thinking (way too complex at this point) of adding control macros to be able to "turn" 2 knobs at once, because that's something real hands and knobs can do, but not this TUI atm.

I built something similar, but for the browser: https://dj.t-tunes.com/

• l00sed

  today at 8:55 PM

  That's rad!

Nice app, though the naming is very close to others

https://github.com/termix-ssh/termix

Finally, I can ssh to the booth from a tablet and take a dump mid-party.

• l00sed

  today at 8:23 PM

  Hahaha Audio works over RDP too

• pixel_popping

  today at 7:18 PM

  HackerRaves.

This has "I got doom to run on my smart fridge" vibes, which are pretty fun vibes tbh

• l00sed

  today at 8:22 PM

  I've actually gotten it running on the steamdeck which is freakin dope and hilarious

Honestly this seems like it would be a sick party trick. Combine with some strudel.cc and it could be pretty cool little setup.

• l00sed

  today at 8:24 PM

  Exactly! And ghostty shaders!!

Cool! Plz do VJing next

• l00sed

  today at 8:23 PM

  I was thinking of doing something like aaa (ASCII art animation) to play videos in the pads section...

Rekordbox/serato this is not.

• gchamonlive

  today at 7:05 PM

  Kind of the point

I guess this is a boring and predictable thing to say, but I miss seeing a project like this and being excited about it. Instead I looked at the codebase, see that it seems LLM-generated and assume it hasn't had much thought or care put into it, so I'm not really motivated to even try it out. Sorry. :-/

• l00sed

  today at 8:28 PM

  I'll come out and say it, heavily AI-assisted. First rust project, and wanted to dive on in with something that I'd been wanting to make. Lots of iteration, almost entirely free opencode tier models and agentic edits. I know what behavior I'm looking for though, and rust is pretty good at finding obvious errors (clippy too). It's not a production app, and it's just for fun, so ya. :)

• mikestorrent

  today at 7:57 PM

  Perhaps one needs to go a level up: if making the program is now semi-trivial, it remains to be proven if using the program to actually perform is. If I have a Star Trek replicator that can reproduce a perfect Stradivarius for me, is it any less impressive when I play a beautiful song on it?

  If we want to get excited about a mixing board... we probably need to see someone using it in ways that traditional mixers don't facilitate.

• iamjackg

  today at 8:00 PM

  > assume it hasn't had much thought or care put into it > I'm not really motivated to even try it out

  That's a little uncharitable. I get where it's coming from, because I also still feel a tinge of (hypocritical) disappointment when I realize things are built with LLMs, but I truly think we need to start moving past this. It's not a giant corporation trying to scam you out of your hard earned money by passing slop off as a lovingly crafted product: it's somebody's pet project, somebody who clearly had a fun "what if" idea and was able to materialize it over time, with a TBD amount of care/iteration/refinement. I think it's something worth engaging with. Worst case scenario it sucks, like many cheapo projects do -- best case scenario it's awesome and/or it sparks a new interesting idea in somebody else.

• kelseyfrog

  today at 7:41 PM

  Does it do what it says on the tin? If so, does it matter that it's made with an LLM?

  In my own experience, LLMs+TUIs are surprisingly effective. They deal with the tedium of ncurses development much more than I can. It took an LLM about an hour to put a TUI over recutils so that I can monitor task progress. I doubt I could have done the same that shortly. My point is, 'that it works' is much more important to me than how it works.

• rvz

  today at 7:36 PM

  You’re going to be disappointed to see a continuous deluge of even more slop on Show HN.