Looks neat.

Couple suggestions:

1. Add some suggested artists that let me click and immediately start watching/listening. You want to demonstrate the value asap, so anything you can do to reduce thinking will help. I spent awhile thinking, came up with "Arcade Fire", then found that there were no results. If this wasn't a post on HN, I would've bounced there.

2. Keyboard shortcuts. But this is obvious, and I'm sure you'll get around to it.

3. The on-hover controls are ok, but there should be some indication that they exist before I mouse-over. You could also use some basic icons to make the controls easier to parse (especially arrows for next and prev).

4. As it stands now, there's no way to surf videos easily. After clicking "next", I have to move my mouse out of the central area, then move it back over to click "next" again. The goal of a site like this is to facilitate brainless and easy surfing, so you should try to reduce as many friction points as possible.

So, I moved to the Bay Area a few months ago and have been looking for work. In my copious free time I worked on this fun little project.

There are such a huge number of great music videos and performances out there that I was completely unaware of until I started working on ViddyJam. I feel like I discover something interesting and cool every time I use it.

I liked the idea immediately when I saw the title :)

UI suggestion: Try making the Jam button bigger and slightly more button-ey (even a 1px drop shadow would help), also maybe add a » too. Would make it clearer that it's a call to action.

Like it!

However it didn't find me anything for Weezer, surprised.

When typing, it felt really laggy, lots of JavaScript going on?

When I hit Donate, it opened in the current window, killing my music! Needless to say I then hit back again to get back to the music, and didn't end up donating... ;-)

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Good work, nice project!

The UI is a little finicky. The artist selection when a video is playing tends to appear and disappear a little too easily.

Otherwise, awesome! I'll actually make use of this!

It may be too early to complain about the recommendation system, but I think you should invest some more time on a good one.

Can you sort for music videos as opposed to static images with audio? I attempted to tackle this problem with youvj.com (a weekend project of mine) a while ago, filtering for music video, official, etc in the description and title (as well as popularity and other factors), but never got results I was truly happy with.

Great idea! I actually found some nice video's I haven't seen in 25 years.and the recommendations are fantastic! Keyboard shortcuts obviously; arrow keys and space bar so I can remote control it from a couch, bathtub, shower or while dancing with a hmd.

Love the "lower the lights" feel when in stream.

I'd like to have a link to the specific channel (possibly the combination of artist/song?) that i'm currently listening to in the URL so I can send to a friend.

Great work!

I noticed that when trying to change the artist name while watching a video that the UI disappears when the mouse stops moving, so I can't see what I'm typing in the search box.

Didn't totally pick up on my like of the artist"White Town" well.

I just did a search for Nine Inch Nails and got Rickrolled.

Great idea. Didn't work on iPad.

im getting a lot of static cover art : (

Very cool app though

Autocomplete!