New Hypem Download Site

This post comes from my original WordPress blog, written between 2009 and 2018. It is kept here verbatim as an archive — the formatting did not always survive the move, and I no longer agree with all of it.

Downloading Songs from hypem.com

I've been writing every now and then about working on a Django project and found the recent developments to the hypem.com website fruitful as a good kick in the butt to start one. The website itself is still in development stages (needs a lot of UI polish) however the overall workflow works rather easily and beautifully.

Advantages to using this site rather than Chrome extension

The 'Download' button immediately kicks off a download. No need to right click and select 'Save As..' on a link. Although this seems pretty trivial, it was causing me to receive plenty of e-mails from people who had a tough time figuring out how to save songs!
Backfilled repository of urls to where the songs are hosted! Sometimes songs I've recently hearted or saved are no longer available to play from hypem.com. Saving the serving url on my site as well is another sure chance of making the content being available longer online!
It was a pretty good excuse to learn Django!
I eventually hope to leverage the code for soundcloud.com

I'd like to figure out a few minor hiccups still related to the overall user experience and figure out a nice deployment strategy. I am open to any help anyone would like to give on the site (whether backend or frontend coding).

Pictures: (Click to Enlarge)

Here is a photo of the landing page. Downloading the songs are as easy as simply providing the hypem.com url.

Here is a photo of the Downloading page. All you have to do is click! :)

4 archived comments

Vasanth 2012-10-05

Love the site design! Clean and to the point. When’s it coming live?

Mithcell 2012-10-09

Very excited. cant wait. i miss downloading my hypem songs :( but if you got this to work with soundcloud i would worship you.

Farid Zakaria 2012-10-09

I have site working but it’d kind of beta. Thinking of putting it live anyways.

Thoughts? I kind of want to release it alongside the fix for the extension too. :)

Thank you for the kind words.

I think hopefully this weekend I’ll launch this site. It’ll be kind of rough but should be working at least.

I’ll work on fixing the scripts and extension and host them all on this one site as well.