Product build · Automation · Subscription platformA friend complained about a bill. He ended up with a product to sell.
A restaurateur we know was paying steep monthly fees for background music. We looked at the problem, came back a week later with an offer - and built him a platform that makes his music cheaper and lets him sell the same service to every other restaurant in town.
Paying a lot, for a playlist.
Every restaurant needs music, and most pay a specialised service a steep monthly fee for it. Our friend was one of them, and he was not getting much for the money - the same rotation, month after month, with nobody paying attention to what actually suited his room.
We sat down, took the problem apart and agreed to meet again in a week. We came back with an offer rather than a proposal: we source the music, connect it to Spotify, and build a fresh playlist every day in exactly the genre his restaurant plays. And while we are at it, we build the website he needs to sell the same service to other restaurateurs.
It was an immediate deal.
A sourcing tool and the back office that runs it.
The sourcing tool
A scraper that goes out and collects the music. Where it collects it from stays our secret - it is the part of this build we are keeping to ourselves.
CSV intake
The scraper's output drops into the back office as a simple song CSV upload. No manual entry, no copy-paste, no bottleneck between finding music and using it.
A catalogue that stays tidy
Every uploaded song is catalogued automatically, so the library stays organised and searchable as it grows instead of turning into an unusable heap.
Daily playlists, on Spotify
The system creates a private Spotify playlist every day, drawing on the songs that have been played least. The room gets something fresh daily without anyone touching it - and without the same twelve tracks haunting the staff.
Clients and subscriptions
Other restaurateurs register themselves and pay their subscription through the platform. The billing side was built in from the start, because a product nobody can buy is a hobby.
The storefront
A marketing site that explains the offer and turns visitors into signups - so he had something to sell with from day one, not a promise of one later.
The same conversation that could have ended in a cheaper supplier ended in a product with recurring revenue.
His music runs itself. And it earns.
Limnomusic is live. Our friend's own restaurant gets a fresh, genre-matched playlist every day with nobody lifting a finger, at a fraction of what the old service cost him. The rest of the platform - registrations, catalogue, subscriptions - runs without him too.
The interesting part is not the software. It is that a recurring cost he resented became something he sells to his peers, from one conversation and a fortnight of work.
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