To be fair we were done transcribing and double verifying in about 2015. We’d get a batch of new menus from the imaging team, tweet it and no matter the size it’d be gone in about an hour.
This absolutely rocks: like an open and usable version of the once beloved and now deprecated Echo Nest Audio Analysis api [0]. There used to be a tool to use this data to manage your own (Spotify-only) music library and while it wasn’t magic, it sure felt like it.
11 years ago, NY Magazine published my favorite startup zeitgeist article of the Uber-For-X era: “Let’s, like, demolish Laundry”. This feels like a perfect revisit of that for our darker and more cynical era.