The latest articles on DEV Community by Luciano Sampaio (@luusamp). https://dev.to/luusamp https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4183219%2F58de1d7b-64d3-496d-bb09-22b4d2be7cc4.png https://dev.to/luusamp en Luciano Sampaio Sat, 31 Oct 2026 17:22:49 +0000 https://dev.to/luusamp/songtagger-my-first-hackathon-project-1m7b https://dev.to/luusamp/songtagger-my-first-hackathon-project-1m7b <p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/mlh-hackathon">MLH x DEV Writing Challenge</a></em></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p><a href="https://devpost.com/software/songtagger" rel="noopener noreferrer">SongTagger</a> is an application that lets listeners tag songs and help other listeners find them more easily. Users can not only search for a genre or an artist like in every platform, but also for feelings. Sad, Happy, Dreamy, Silly, those are all valid tags to search for and will appear as soon as you or sufficiently enough people tag a song with those. This way, we build a song catalog that expresses the listeners true view of a song.<br> With the user given tags, we also build a recommendation system based on that! Now it is not only "listen to this because you like rock", but also "listen to this because you've been horribly depressed lately".</p> <h2> Demo </h2> <p> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/D7tvOYWItrc" width="710" height="399"> </iframe> </p> <h2> Partner Technologies </h2> <p>No team project is doable without a nice version control system, and no version control system is complete without a host for your projects and versions. As usual, we would not be able to do it without GitHub.<br> Uncountable pulls, a few manageable merge conflicts, but a clean collaboration with the team without the need to send each other files over messaging platforms or to upload always upload the current version to cloud drive. Essential platform!</p> <h2> Hackathon Experience </h2> <p>This was a submission to the <a href="https://knight-hacks-ix.devpost.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Knight Hacks IX</a>. Attending with my good friend Kaiky, everything there was so new to us. There were many useful workshops, talking about both technology and soft skills. But beyond that, even the social events happening were a fantastic experience to enjoy with that community of easy-going yet hard-working devs.<br> The organizers did a great job, and we can still see awesome projects from equally awesome participants in the <a href="https://knight-hacks-ix.devpost.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">devpost</a>. Certainly an experience to come back to.</p> <p>Link to our entry: <a href="https://devpost.com/software/songtagger" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://devpost.com/software/songtagger</a></p> mlhacks devchallenge hackathon