Zoneout

I built a collaborative listening app today. Here's what happened. This morning I had an idea. By this afternoon it had users. By tonight I was DJing to an empty room on the internet and it was still kind of magical. Zoneout is a collaborative SoundCloud listening room. Anyone in the room can queue tracks, everyone hears them synced in real time. There's a WebGL2 visualiser, chat, and a DJ override system. It runs on Node.js and MySQL and three HTML files. I built it hacking between terminals, Claude Code, and Cursor — each model has its strengths and I used all of them. The idea, the design, the aesthetic, and the first listening event were all real. I had people playtesting it while I was still building it. Nine users signed up on day one. Someone joined the Procrastinatrix room and stayed. The stack is deliberately boring. The vibe is deliberately not. It feels like Turntable.fm if you remember that. That's the whole pitch. ffilm.org/zoneout