Slipstream was born out of a (small) problem
In March of 2020 my company sent everyone home to quarantine as the pandemic took off in Los Angeles. I was incredibly lucky to have the kind of job that didn't disappear with the lockdowns, but it was still a weird, stressful time.
Something that made the following months easier was the explosion in streaming musical performances. Some of my favorite artists started streaming regularly, digital radio stations really took off, and they all became meaningful to me in a way they hadn't been when I could go out and see live music any night of the week. I wasn't alone either: friends and coworkers started sending me new streams to check out on a daily basis.
There was one downside to all this streaming: it was kind of tough to juggle in a browser. Sometimes I'd be in the middle of listening to a digital radio station when I'd get sent a link to a live performance I had to check out. Sometimes two artists I liked were playing simultaneously and I'd either need to pick one or try to jump between both performances. Switching between tabs and platforms while muting and unmuting was a pain, and it wasn't always easy to find old streams I'd enjoyed when I wanted to listen to them again later.
So I designed and built a little app to handle all that.
Slipstream is a Google Chrome extension that lets you easily toggle between streams, silence or close streams with a single click, and save sets of streams for later.
It's a private extension you can't find in the Chrome store, but give me a shout if you want to try it out.