About FM.video

FM.video takes what radio stations are actually playing, right now, and turns it into a music video channel you can just sit and watch.

Pick a station and it plays the music videos for the songs that station is spinning. No hunting around, no building a queue before you get to listen to anything. It updates as the station does, so what you are watching is what is on air.

There are stations from New Zealand, Australia, the UK, the US and a dozen other countries, plus charts, playlists you can build and share in a few taps, and a VJ that will put a channel together for you if you ask it nicely.

Who made it

I am Tim Thomas, and I built this on my own, in New Zealand. Not a team, not a startup with an office and a runway. One person who likes music, likes video, and wanted something good to watch.

I am saying that up front because it matters. The scraping, the matching, the apps, the design, the servers it runs on, the whole lot is mine. If something is broken it is my fault, and if you tell me about it I will probably have a look that evening.

Why it exists

Music video got a bit lost. It went from something you would put on and leave on, to something you go and search for one clip at a time. The good part of music television was never the presenters, it was not having to decide. You turned it on and it was already going.

That is the bit I wanted back, with the good parts of now bolted on: it knows what is actually charting, you can save anything you like, and you can send a playlist to a mate with a link.

Honestly, for flicking through videos and getting a playlist together quickly, I think it does that better than the big music apps do. That is the part I am proudest of.

Built fast, with AI

The other reason this exists is to show what one person can build now. A lot of FM.video was written with AI doing the heavy lifting while I did the deciding, and it went from idea to a real product with real users far faster than it had any right to.

That is a genuinely new way of working and I am still figuring out where the edges are. But the short version: the bottleneck is not typing anymore, it is knowing what to build and being fussy about the result.

Say hello

If you are building something similar, or you want to talk about putting apps together this way, I am happy to hear from you. Same if you have found a bug, want your station on here, or just want to say the playlist algorithm has terrible taste.

Email me at [email protected], or use the contact form if that is easier.

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