ZOTmusic

daniele nencini — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 07:19:47 +0000

This post is my submission for DEV Education Track: Build Apps with Google AI Studio.

zotmusic: Your All-in-One Studio & Network

The Vision: Where Connection Fuels Creation
For too long, the journey of a musician has been fragmented. You find collaborators on one platform, practice with another, manage your band's material on a third, and hunt for gear on a fourth. This disconnect stifles creativity and slows momentum.
zotmusic is the integrated ecosystem designed to dissolve these barriers. Our purpose is to create a single, fluid environment where musicians can connect, create, and collaborate seamlessly. It’s more than just a social network; it's a digital studio, a dynamic marketplace, and a dedicated project space built by musicians, for musicians.
Key Features: The zotmusic Experience
We've built a comprehensive suite of tools to support every stage of the musical journey:

Connect & Discover: The Musician's Marketplace Find your next bandmate, your dream instrument, or your next gig with our intelligent and geo-aware classifieds system. Advanced Ad Listings: Go beyond "musician wanted." Post or find ads for bands seeking members, gear for sale or wanted, music lessons, and professional services like studio time or repairs. Intelligent Filtering: Instantly narrow your search by instrument, skill level, genre, ad type, and—most importantly—location and search radius, ensuring you find the best local opportunities. Personalized Experience: Your profile showcases your skills, location, and preferred genres, allowing the platform to surface the most relevant ads for you.
Audition & Showcase: Streamlining the Connection We've revolutionized the audition process, moving it from messy email chains into a clean, integrated workflow. In-App Auditions: Bands can upload "trial songs" (backing tracks, click tracks) directly to their ads. Applicants can then record or upload their performance directly within the app. Multi-Track Submissions: Candidates can submit up to three separate audio tracks, showcasing their versatility without ever leaving the platform. Centralized Review: Band admins can review all applicants and their audio submissions in one organized place, making the selection process faster and more effective.
Create & Practice: Your Personal DAW Hone your craft with a powerful, browser-based Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) designed for practice and analysis. AI-Powered Track Separation: Inspired by industry-leading tools, our core feature allows you to upload any song and magically separate it into stems—vocals, drums, bass, and more. Mute the original guitar to play along, or solo the bassline to learn it note-for-note. Full Mixing Console: Each separated track gets its own channel with independent volume, pan, mute, and solo controls. Smart Playback Tools: Adjust the tempo without changing pitch, change the key of the entire song, and set loop points to master difficult sections.
Collaborate: The Group Studio Your band's private, digital workspace for organizing projects and streamlining creativity. Shared Song Library: Upload and manage your band's demos, backing tracks, and rehearsal recordings in a central, accessible location. Lyric & Chord Sheets: Keep your lyrics and chord progressions organized and synced with your audio projects. Project Hub: Use the studio as the single source of truth for your band's creative material, ensuring everyone is always on the same page. Technical Specifics: A Modern & Scalable Foundation zotmusic is built on a robust, modern, and scalable technology stack designed for performance and reliability. Frontend: Framework: React with TypeScript for a type-safe, component-based, and maintainable user interface. Styling: Tailwind CSS for a utility-first, highly responsive, and easily customizable design system that looks great on any device. State Management: A combination of React hooks and Context API for efficient state management, ready to scale with a more robust library like Zustand or Redux as needed. Internationalization (i18n): Architected from the ground up with a flexible translation system to support a global user base, starting with English and Italian. Backend & Architecture: Architecture: A modular, API-driven backend (REST or GraphQL) designed for scalability. Core functionalities like User Management, Ads, and Audio Processing are separated for independent development and deployment. Technology: Proposed stack includes Node.js or Python for the main API, with a PostgreSQL database supercharged with the PostGIS extension for powerful and efficient geospatial queries (the engine behind our radius-based ad search). Asynchronous Processing: Long-running tasks, especially AI track separation, are handled asynchronously via a message queue (e.g., RabbitMQ, Google Pub/Sub) to ensure the UI remains fast and responsive. AI & Audio Processing: Core Engine: Integration with state-of-the-art AI audio separation models like Demucs or Spleeter, deployed as a dedicated microservice. This allows us to process audio efficiently without impacting the core application's performance. Audio Storage: All user-uploaded audio (auditions, library tracks, stems) is stored securely and reliably in a dedicated object storage solution like Google Cloud Storage or AWS S3. Infrastructure: Cloud-Native: Designed for deployment on a major cloud platform like Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or AWS to leverage managed services, global CDN for fast content delivery, and elastic scalability to grow with our user base.

Demo

https://ai.studio/apps/drive/1tVOkwye8JCReak9Rxa9o17t9jjKSpIBW

... i can't share the prompts, i made it as a game just asking to refine what i was thinking, iteration by iterations, just asking for features...
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There's a long TODO.md , crafting this app is full of work and tokens for LLM, from authentication to DAW functions.
Needs to be finished but i have touched the point, just thinkin to him !

DEV Community: daniele nencini

ZOTmusic

zotmusic: Your All-in-One Studio & Network

Demo