BengaStation

I spent the last 4 years building BengaStation, a fully functional music streaming app — basically a Spotify/Apple Music-style experience

What it does:

• Audio streaming with Redis caching

• Real-time listening sessions (listen together)

• Playlists, favorites, queue with shuffle/repeat

• Lyrics, comments, search

• Full auth via Supabase

• Native iOS app (Capacitor) with persistent background audio

• Fully automated CI/CD for iOS builds via GitHub Actions (no local Xcode needed)

• Sideloaded distribution (no App Store yet)

Stack: Next.js frontend, Express backend on a Hetzner VPS, Supabase (auth + DB), Redis, deployed for $8/month total infra cost.

The honest part: audio is sourced via yt-dlp from YouTube — no music licensing in place. This means it's not something that can scale publicly as-is;