we:fm was a social music platform where people can start a music room just by playing a song. Once they started playing a song in the app, their friends would be notified to tune-in and listen to the same song at the same time, perfectly in-sync.

The idea of we:fm came to me while I was in a long-distance relationship in college. We would play songs at the same time to feel emotionally connected. This experience felt extremely connective which led me to the idea of building an app on top of Spotify’s and Apple Music’s API.

The biggest challenge for we:fm was designing a social layer into a music player mechanic that was consistent across operating systems and devices: all music players look the same (cover art + playback controls). Since this mechanic was the obvious, familiar and ubiquitous starting point for people listening to music on their devices, we started there and designed the social layer into it.

Note: this was a side project I worked on in college. we:fm was selected by Amsterdam Dance Event as a finalist in their music startup competition.