I spent this year’s “Days Between” building a mobile app for rukind. Just a thought I had while I was rewatching the GD60 shows. After a lot of iterations, I landed on the Dark Star Oracle: ask questions against this forum and the tab archive, browse the knowledge base directly, and practice songs with your guitar. This is what I came up with:
The Oracle chat.
This pretty much existed on the web, and I moved it to the app. Ask a question, and it gathers the relevant forum threads and wiki pages, then assembles them into a readable answer, with the sources it drew from.
The wiki:
The Oracle's entire knowledge base is a wiki you can browse yourself: songs, band, gear, techniques, eras, with no AI. A more human interface that also allows for edits and improvements: all the approved edits go straight into the knowledge base. I wanted humans to be able to inspect and correct everything.
Practice mode.
Every song's chord progressions are broken out by section, and you can search the catalog by the chords you know, for instance, tap G and C and see which songs have that progression. In practice mode, the app listens through the microphone and detects the chords you're playing, with a metronome keeping time. And while you are practicing, you can pull up the Oracle to query the forums for more info.
There's still plenty of work before (if) this lands in the App Store, but all of the chat features are live at rukind.ai today.
The Oracle chat.
This pretty much existed on the web, and I moved it to the app. Ask a question, and it gathers the relevant forum threads and wiki pages, then assembles them into a readable answer, with the sources it drew from.
The wiki:
The Oracle's entire knowledge base is a wiki you can browse yourself: songs, band, gear, techniques, eras, with no AI. A more human interface that also allows for edits and improvements: all the approved edits go straight into the knowledge base. I wanted humans to be able to inspect and correct everything.
Practice mode.
Every song's chord progressions are broken out by section, and you can search the catalog by the chords you know, for instance, tap G and C and see which songs have that progression. In practice mode, the app listens through the microphone and detects the chords you're playing, with a metronome keeping time. And while you are practicing, you can pull up the Oracle to query the forums for more info.
There's still plenty of work before (if) this lands in the App Store, but all of the chat features are live at rukind.ai today.
