Groooves is a music-reviewing app I built after spending years searching for a Letterboxd equivalent for music. Every other entertainment medium has one; books have Goodreads, TV and film have IMDb and Letterboxd; but music had nothing. I got the idea in late 2024, taught myself React Native and Supabase from scratch, and launched on the App Store in February 2025 after 7 months of development.
Key highlights
- Rate and review any album, with a personal diary of everything you've listened to
- Discover what your friends are listening to and see their reviews
- Build a watchlist of albums you want to get to
- 1.3K+ users in the first 5 weeks after launch
- 26 million Instagram views in the first 2 months of marketing
- Artists including SZA and Pusha T have engaged with the app on social media
- Built entirely with React Native (Expo) and Supabase (PostgreSQL)