I think taste can be acquired. You're not born with a taste in music: you listen, you discover records, and slowly you acquire a certain taste. I built this because I was not into Spotify/Apple Music's recommendations, they seemed unpredictable. With deep cuts, I get records that share something with the ones I love: same producer, a sample, a label. Every pick comes with a reason, so I actually learn something with each dig.

deep cuts helps you discover new artists and records through what people have documented online about them: producers, session players, samples, labels.

How it works:

- use the record player to listen to a record you like, then dig deeper to find other related records. OR start a brand new dig with a few records you like.

- every pick comes from real connections on Discogs and MusicBrainz.

- the AI doesn't invent records, it just chooses from a pool of results and explains why. Each time you dig deeper, you get rarer records.

- no sign-up, no ads, your record crates stay in your browser.

- when you don't feel like digging, just listen to the spinning record, a hand-picked album from the shop.

I built it for myself, to discover new music and dig deeper into artists I like. Some days I wake up wanting to listen to something but not sure what, and this helps me start somewhere. I shared it with friends who dig for vinyl and it surprised all of us, so I'm sharing it here.

It's open source: https://github.com/xeniadobonyi/deepcuts. I built it with AI as a coding partner: I made the product and design decisions, and the AI helped write and test the code.

Happy to hear all feedback!