I'm a dev who's been producing electronic music for about 12 years, and the two halves of my brain finally collided into something.
The problem: producers lose enormous amounts of time to the blank piano roll. Not to mixing, not to sound design — to the moment where you have the vibe in your head and no idea what notes to click. Existing tools either generate a whole finished track (useless — nobody wants a song handed to them) or are music theory reference charts (useful but slow).
MelodyCreator sits in between. Pick key + scale + [complexity/rhythm controls], generate, export MIDI, done. It's a spark, not a song.
The interesting part of building it was that my first instinct was completely wrong. V1 tried to make the output as musically "complete" as possible — proper voice leading, resolved cadences, the works. Every single result was boring. The version that actually clicked went the opposite direction: generate fast, generate rough, give the user control over the parameters, and let them mangle it. The value isn't in the notes. It's in the fact that you're now editing something instead of facing a blank grid.
Link to the website: https://melodycreator.zarkonik.workers.dev
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