← After hours Ongoing · 2026 · Software

DeepCut

Years of saved songs are a diary nobody reads. Connect your Spotify or Tidal library and DeepCut reads it for you: the chapters, the turning points, the winter everything got quieter. Then it writes the liner notes for your life in music. Side A is what you saved. Side B is what it kept.

Three screens from DeepCut on black: a playlist page with its emotional arc, the cream "Your listening is a record" poster, and the sunburst of six emotional registers.
The question

What is your music trying to tell you?

Every streaming app can tell you your top artist. None of them can tell you that you spent a whole winter on songs about leaving. That is the story worth reading.

How it works

You sign in through Spotify or Tidal, so DeepCut never sees your password. It reads your plays, likes and playlists over time, tags each track with keywords and a register (Defiance, Devotion, Yearning, Grief, and more), lays your listening out as a chronological ledger, and traces the emotional arc of each playlist. Then it writes.

The big decision was story over chart. A dashboard of your listening is something you squint at. Liner notes are something you read.

It’s built for people who think of their library as more than a playlist.

What's inside Spotify and Tidal connectionsA read on every track: register, themes, energyAn emotional arc for every playlistLiner notes written for one listener

Role: The idea, the design, the code. All of it.

How we think

Story over chart.

A dashboard is something you squint at. Liner notes are something you read. It is the same rule we bring to every room we build: hide the machinery, and hand people the feeling.

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