1. Register domain accordionfy.com or accordion.io.
2. Put a lading page to collect emails in it. Link to this demo.
3. Include the copy "Accordionfy.com is aiming to disrupt the accordion industry by leveraging the web stack to deliver an life-like accordion experience to anyone with an internet connection."
4. Under the copy include: "We are currently raising seed investment."
5. Write 3 blog posts a day about anything but accordions.
6. Tweet about accordion-first startups.
7. Apply to YC and then complain about how PG hates accordions.
8. Buy a black hoodie and an airplane ticket to SF.
9. Go to every startup event in SF.
10. Tell people how much traction you got from the HN post.
11. Rinse and repeat #9 && #10 for 3 months.
12. Make a blog post about how you failed, and how it taught you that startups are hard. Never thinking about that you were trying to sell a fucking accordion in a web browser.
13. Get acquired by Yahoo! for 15 Million dollars.
I don't know if you can call it 'play' when you are only influencing if the accordion is sounding or not. I would call it 'listening' to accordion by resizing your browser window. I understand that if the user did have control it would not sound as good, but you could do it.
The size of the window vertically would control the pitch, so if I have a small sliver vertically it should be high pitched and if my browser window is tall(vertically) it should be low pitched.
The speed of the change in size horizontally should be how fast the air passes through the instrument.
If I have it vertically large and slowly drag it to the left it should let out a low drone, if I go quickly it should be a low burst, etc.
Resizing a real accordion only influences volume, i.e. the harder you push/pull the faster air flows over the reeds. And you inevitably get no air flow at all when you switch between pulling and pushing the bellows, so you have to time this right. It's a fascinating instrument.
It really needs an accordion soft-synth, and when you change direction (and/or when you start to slow down?), to play the next note in the song... as you said, with volume depending on movement speed (and maybe current position also affecting the sound a little). In short, what we need is an VST to javascript bridge haha.
And then make a litte plugin out of it, so this can be put on all websites; using a canonical CDN location would even mean everybody has it cached all the time, so there'd be no downside to doing that.
I have been wondering what the web 3.0 would look like for a while now, but I asked the wrong question.... what does it sound like, that is what matters.
My first impression was that Play related to the framework or just meaning something games related and that accordion meant the UI element e.g. http://jqueryui.com/accordion/. I think the title is fine, but I wasn't expecting music at first either.
Whatever is triggering sounds by resize should also be able to query the width of the window and serve a sound accordingly, but then it comes close to actual work instead of a cool demo.
2. Put a lading page to collect emails in it. Link to this demo.
3. Include the copy "Accordionfy.com is aiming to disrupt the accordion industry by leveraging the web stack to deliver an life-like accordion experience to anyone with an internet connection."
4. Under the copy include: "We are currently raising seed investment."
5. Write 3 blog posts a day about anything but accordions.
6. Tweet about accordion-first startups.
7. Apply to YC and then complain about how PG hates accordions.
8. Buy a black hoodie and an airplane ticket to SF.
9. Go to every startup event in SF.
10. Tell people how much traction you got from the HN post.
11. Rinse and repeat #9 && #10 for 3 months.
12. Make a blog post about how you failed, and how it taught you that startups are hard. Never thinking about that you were trying to sell a fucking accordion in a web browser.
13. Get acquired by Yahoo! for 15 Million dollars.
In all seriousness, I love this.