Built a Discogs discovery tool for my own digging feedback welcome
Bit of background: I'm a DJ (Offtheshelf.Records on Discogs) and over the past year I kept hitting the same wall. Discogs is great for cataloguing but pretty painful when I just want to discover new records. No way to scroll through releases like a feed, no YouTube previews built in, no quick way to compare collections with another DJ before a b2b set.
So I started building something for myself. It turned into a web app called Diggidig. I know there's already a fair amount of Discogs tools out there, so I'll be straight about what mine does:
• Scrollable feed of releases by style, year, country with YouTube preview built into each release page
• "Find similar" on any release pulls 12 related records based on label, style and artist, so one record can lead you down a rabbit hole without leaving the page
• Every record you open gets marked as already listened, and you can remove records you don't want to see. Those are filtered out of all future searches, so the feed stays fresh and you never waste time on the same record twice
• Compare your collection with another user, shows the overlap, handy if you DJ b2b sets
Full disclosure: I'm the maker. It costs €4.99/month with a 14-day free trial. Pricing exists because the Discogs API has rate limits and Cloudflare hosting costs real money per user. Not trying to get rich, just want it to break even while I keep working on it.
I'd really like to hear from people here:
What does the current Discogs site lack for you when you're actively digging?
Are tools like this useful, or does it feel like a solution looking for a problem?
Anything specific you'd want before considering something like this?
Link is: https://diggidig.app if you want to look around, no card needed for the trial. Genuinely open to criticism.