Went down a rabbit hole looking at how to get full albums to play via APIs. Basically not a thing as every service wants to control the experience in its own player.

So for now we're just linking out to full albums at the respective services from an album in your crate.

Introduced the idea of a "crate" — this is a place to add albums for later listending. Particularly ones you may have discovered on our platform.

We want to create a "listening room" experience for these albums - so we'll look at supporting integrations with streaming services you're a member of so you can listen to full albums.

Support is in for a basic public profile. Once you've chosen your 5 albums you'll get a profile page pulbished.

Mine's at /@anson

If you're logged in you should be able to follow me from there. Although that doesn't get you anything yet.

We now have basic functionality working for curating your 5 albums. You choose a preview track for each album you add.

Once youv'e chosen your 5 albums you can replace any of them by searching for an album, selecting your preview track and choosing which of your collection it should replace.

Have set up user sessions and wired up the Deezer API to support album search, detail view and track previews.

I'm building using Claude Code CLI (Sonnet 4.6).

If you've registered for early access you can have a play here.

Have been doing some behind-the-scenes work to generate a report on how many 5LPs members have signed up.

Thinking about what to build next. I think the search function — in order to curate your 5 LPs you'll need to search for albums and then add them. I've previously done some work on this and I actually like Deezer over Spotify. Spotify has arguably the biggest database, but the API is restrictive and no longer offers valuable features like track previews.

So we'll go with Deezer for now...

Our first feature is live. You can now register and claim your 5LPs username by entering your email above. Who doesn't love a social network username land grab!

This project is using Resend to send the email and Cloudflare for hosting and data. So far so good!

Let's go! Five days to vibe code a social network for lovers of long players.

The concept: share the 5 records you have in high rotation. Keep the list current as you swap in the new for the old. Follow others to discover new albums.

Check back here as the project goes from blank canvas to launch on Record Store Day.