eBeat story

There is a lot to say about this story, but long story short: we were trying to create an app that could write musical notation based on sound input from the device microphone.

We won a local startup event and then won the regional competition, where the main prize was presenting our startup at TechCrunch Disrupt Europe in Berlin in 2013. We also took part in the hackathon a couple of days prior in the same venue, with a simple idea for an app that improves your typing performance. I later took this idea and made an app for Windows 8.1 (I know, right) as a project for one of the IT classes in high school.

Anyyyway… I was the only developer, less than 18 years old and for the first time faced with a problem I could not solve on multiple levels. Looking back now, a lot of things would be much easier - maybe even possible - if I had almost ten more years of experience.

Soon after Disrupt Europe in 2013 we decided that after almost a year, we would stop pursuing the idea. We did manage to create an app that was outputting musical notation, but the input was manual.

Around that time I decided that never again would I be faced with a challenge for which I would not be able to find the solution. And so the journey for the true knowledge began.