Overview
Type a Pokémon’s name and PokéTunes hands back a real Spotify playlist built from what that creature is: its type, its stats, its lore. I matched every type to a sound: Fire types get distorted guitars and heavy drums, Water types get late-night R&B.
Highlights
- All 1,025 of them. Autocomplete across the whole Pokédex, pulling each one’s types, stats and lore.
- Eighteen types, eighteen sounds. Electric is synthwave, Ghost is darkwave, Fairy is hyperpop. Speed and Attack push the tempo, and legendaries go cinematic.
- Share cards. I draw two right in the browser: one for link previews and one for Stories.
- Your Spirit Pokémon. I match your top Spotify tracks against every Pokémon’s taste. It’s built and working, and waiting on Spotify’s approval to go public.
How It’s Built
Pokémon data comes from PokéAPI and the playlists come from Spotify search. I went dark neon for the look, with accents that shift to the selected Pokémon’s type.
Process
I designed and built it solo. The lesson: when you build on someone else’s API, learn its access rules before building the features that depend on them.
