This package contains the contracts and UI for interfacing with Heat, an Ethereum-based social music discovery application.
The Heat applications allows users to create small groups to share and discover music with. The core mechanism of Heat is
the time-based selection events users participate in. When a group reaches 4 members, the group will be marked as active
and initialized by introducing its first SelectionEvent. SelectionEvents are opportunities for users to propose music they
find appealing for whatever reason. After 6 days, the SelectionEvent will transition from Created to PendingSelections.
At this point, users will view all selections made by the other group members and rank their top 3. Users must submit their
votes within the following 24 hours. The winner from these rankings is awarded reputation based on stats of the songs selected
across the group. Finally, the event will be moved to Complete state and a new SelectionEvent in Created state is generated
for the group to repeat the process.
Reputation at this point is virtually meaningless, although it could theoretically become something meaningful to music enthusiasts as they become established on the application. Users will likely only be allowed in a relatively small number of groups and will have reputation decay in some form, at some point. Ultimately, reputation will mostly just be for fun until I decide to ever try to make a real mechanism out of it but it does have interesting potential to incentivise broad music exploration.
Heat is just going to be a browser-based frontend for now. I'd love to expand it to IOS, though, just for the fun and experience of it.