I tried running an artist through who is a friend, with a few grand found. Will forward the link to her. Is this Spotify only? Thank you.

Amazing! The only stream count we can find that is publicly available is Spotify, so we use it as a reference point in our calculation, and it's why we give a range. If they have heavy plays on a different streaming platform like Apple, we don't have a good way of finding that number.

The estimate range is our best guess for money specifically in the MLC, which is for US digital streaming mechanicals for all DSPs (Spotify, Apple, Pandora, YouTube, Amazon, etc.)

Great idea, huge actually. Did you use claude code? It could help you integrate Stripe for billing, at least say "Free for now" and keep this in mind for later.

Thanks! Yes, I used Claude Code. It was my first project with AI assistance. I'll keep Stripe in mind for the future, in case the cost gets too high for me to personally subsidize the hosting.

Very cool. Was this developed to be used by civil engineers to analyze traffic patterns?

Thanks! I built it mainly for autonomous driving, but civil engineers have been using it too. I'd like to open it up to more use cases like that.

Compelling app. Nice website design.

Thanks a lot

As a grandparent without your skills, I am impressed with the idea and how you included your son in the development. Especially useful for parents who (like you) wish to delay smartphone purchase for their kids. Is any of this patentable? Sell to a toy company for mass production?

Thank you!

None of these are patent-able or sell-able. Many such ideas already exists and are sold. This is a one-off solution where I have built for my son and his friends. I could have bought a subscription and devices from elsewhere - but thought otherwise.

I could, potentially, build up infrastructure and expand - but, that's too much of a financial constraint and too much time away from my personal life.

The code and designs are out there for anyone to stand this up for themselves. Or I can help assist to set it up.

This sounds great and I would like to try it on my iPhone. Will you be developing an IOS version?