But I find it a bit overwhelming to have to then go and search the record on a streaming service to assess whether it would be something I was interested in.

So I made this. You can quickly throw together a list of records and all the reader has to do is click on them to sample them :)

I've put together some 2016 year-end lists that were put together by major publications by way of example:

Metacritic Top 40 albums of the year: https://www.tapedeck.io/collections/2

Pitchfork's top 50 of 2016: https://www.tapedeck.io/collections/3

Gorilla vs Bear - Best Albums 2016 (some lesser known artists in here): https://www.tapedeck.io/collections/6

One for the metalheads... CoS top 10 metal albums of 2016: https://www.tapedeck.io/collections/5

I built it with some spare downtime I had over the holiday period. Nice and simple Rails application.

It's just a small project not a startup, but I would love your opinions on it. It's open-source too. GitHub repo: https://www.github.com/cjbutcher/tapedeck-2.