Tobias | Tuneshine

Agreed- I absolutely would not have been able to solve this problem, even with AI help, without foundational software engineering knowledge!

I asked them to send me a $300 consulting invoice, as they’d already scheduled my work and I might still need their help later.

I am very skeptical about a lot of AI hype but seeing this play out has been somewhat eye opening. And at this stage for me saving $3k is huge!

This is striking to me for a few reasons

- Claude 3.5 couldn’t solve this problem, but 4 could
- It’s my first direct tangible example of AI replacing a paid software engineer
- Maybe I’m next?

I was about to hire a consulting firm to do about $3k of software development work, stuff that’s slightly outside of my wheelhouse (React Native + native Android), but I had to cancel because I ended up being able to get a workable solution with Claude 4 in about a day.

Cardboard shipping box with "TUNESHINE" written on it

A dark wooden rectangular object being lifted from a brown cardboard box.

A square pixelated display showing a green background and the words "ATTACK DECAY SUSTAIN RELEASE" written in white

My Tuneshine arrived today and I love it so fucking much. Huge thanks to @tobobias.bsky.social for making such a cool thing and also to @reckless.bsky.social for mentioning it

Thanks so much! Glad it arrived safely even though it looks like a bite was taken out of the box. Enjoy! Great album choice btw 🎵✨

front to back

Not to pile on the “Siri bad” bandwagon but… idk man

Worth it to get it on the Tuneshine 🎵✨

It’s looking more tempting than ever!

I’ve thought about moving assembly to Canada or Mexico- I’m fairly certain that would be legal, a lot cheaper in terms of tariffs and likely labor as well. But it would take months to set up and the tariffs are changing too often to take that risk. Plus I like assembling in the US!

Thank you! 🙏🏼

As the maker of a similar product told me last week, “it’s kind of ridiculous to raise prices on an LED box”

The picture is definitely pretty different from last week- with the latest tariffs my costs are creeping right up to the point of no longer being tenable. I got a shipment of parts in right before the >100% tariffs went in to effect and I’m just kind of crossing my fingers that it mellows out.

Glad you’re in to it! 🎵✨ let me know if you have any questions

Tuneshine – Your space, your music Album art display for tasteful music lovers

So Tuneshine now supports streaming services as well as most physical media. Check it out here. www.tuneshine.rocks

But a record doesn’t change on its own- you have to manually put it on. Requiring one more step from your phone isn’t a big deal, and it avoids a whole potential privacy concern related to having a microphone listening and continuously Shazam-ing from your living room.

For streaming services, it’s really important to have Tuneshine be low friction. Artists and albums change frequently when you listen through a playlist and Tuneshine needs to be able to keep up without requiring manual intervention.

I assumed that adding Shazam capabilities to Tuneshine would require a hardware revamp to add a microphone and a processor beefy enough to do audio processing alongside the networking and image processing it already does. So I dismissed it for the longest time as being something I’d do “later.”

Sometimes you get totally stuck thinking there’s only one way to build a feature

Then suddenly it clicks and you realize you should have done it months ago.

This happened to me with adding the Shazam feature to the Tuneshine app, which just came out this week.

A picture of a TuneShine display - a lamp made up of 64 x 64 LEDs that displays the album artwork of what I'm listening to. Now it's showing a pale figure with black clothing and hair in the foreground. The background is all blues and whites, but it's not really possible to tell what it is.

Name that album cover!

#64x64AlbumArt
#TuneShine

I’m warming up to Bluesky! So many platforms out there nowadays. I should give this place a real shot. Glad you’re enjoying your Tuneshine!

Experimenting with combining a few Tuneshines together and setting their idle images to coordinate with the new custom idle image feature

Thank you for featuring Tuneshine! :)

Wondering to what extent these “support feedback” emails you get are a way to redirect people’s anger and prevent them from writing a bad public review

(No bone to pick with Betterment, this is just the first one I could find in my inbox)