MEyeTunes

MEyeTunes is an iPhone app built as a self-directed investigation into iOS development in Xcode. Give it a date of birth and it looks up the UK #1 single on that exact date, then does the same again for a set of significant milestones through a life — 13th, 16th, 18th, 21st, and onward — assembling the results into a single "soundtrack of your life" playlist.

The app harvests UK singles chart history from free, publicly available sources and matches each milestone date to the chart-topping track in effect that week, then resolves those tracks against streaming catalogues so they can actually be played rather than just listed. Finished playlists export straight into Spotify, Deezer, or iTunes, so the result is something you can immediately listen to rather than a static list.

The project was primarily an exercise in learning native iOS development from scratch — working in Xcode and getting hands-on with C++ on Apple's platform, alongside the practical challenges of sourcing and cleaning historical chart data and integrating with multiple third-party music platforms' export/authentication flows.

Note: the original project files and screenshots no longer exist, so the diagram and phone mockups below are illustrative recreations of how the app worked, not real screenshots.