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Roon Labs
Company blog · blog.roonlabs.comculturehardware
Roon Labs is the company blog at blog.roonlabs.com, writing about culture and hardware. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “15 years ago, we started thinking how listening to music was going to change”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts cover the history of the HiFi music player that became Roon, and the founder's quest to build a music player. The only comment is a founder's launch announcement, which does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Blog
Most-linked posts?
- 15 years ago, we started thinking how listening to music was going to change2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-12
What Hacker News says?
Founder here... we just launched. History of the HiFi product this was built up from here: http://blog.roonlabs.com/what-a-journey/ I always wanted to post our product on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7629177 "My Quest to Build the Ultimate Music Player" We solve almost every concern posted, especially about music metadata organization. Any questions? We want to hear your issues with music software.
Comment linking /what-a-journey/
on “Roon Labs”Submitted Valence – finding your next music obsession with Roon 1.7 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Roon 1.5 is here as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 15 years ago, we started thinking how listening to music was going to change as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What a Journey as a story · 1 points
HN discussion