From Simple Project to Everyday Tool: Spotify Playlist Creator

During my second year of university, I developed a fairly simple tool. I didn’t have much experience compared to what I know now, but it solved a very specific problem that bothered me every day: creating new Spotify playlists from an existing one — keeping what I like and filtering out what I don’t.
To this day, I still use it. That, to me, is the ultimate test for any software: its real usefulness.

What problem does Spotify Playlist Creator solve?

• If you have a huge playlist, how do you keep only the tracks from your favorite artists or albums?
• If you want a “summary” version by decade or specific years, why rebuild it manually?
• If you want to duplicate a playlist with a new cover, name, and privacy settings, why waste time?

This app does it for you: it takes an existing playlist and generates a new one based on clear criteria — directly in your Spotify account.

How the interface works

1) Enter the URL of your original playlist 2) Log in to your Spotify account 3) View the playlist: name, cover, and track list 4) Choose your criteria:

• Selectable list of artists and albums to include
• Year range using a slider (e.g., 2005–2015)
• Name, description, and privacy settings for the new playlist
• Custom cover via an image URL
• Click “Create playlist” — and that’s it! It’s instantly generated in your account, with a direct link to open it.

The experience is fast, focused, and distraction-free. The key is deciding what you want to keep from the original and creating the new one in seconds.

Real use cases

• “Best of” an artist: from a big playlist mixing albums and collaborations, extract just their main tracks.
• Decade compilations: from an eclectic list, keep only the 90s or 2010s songs.
• “Clean” versions to share: covers, names, and descriptions adapted for a specific occasion.
• Focus playlists: filter by years and artists to match the mood of a task or event.

Why I still use it

• It saves time. What used to take minutes (or hours) now takes just a couple of clicks.
• It’s about decisions, not complexity. You select criteria and get something useful in return.
• It integrates with my real workflow: I open Spotify, and the new playlist is already there, ready to play.

What it taught me

• Usefulness beats sophistication. A simple project can have more impact than a brilliant but irrelevant one.
• Interface matters. When removing friction is the priority, technology becomes secondary.
• The ROI of small things. A simple piece of software you use weekly is worth more than a “perfect” one you never open.

Not every project needs to be ambitious to be valuable.
If it solves a real problem — and does so clearly — it earns its place in your daily life.
This was a second-year project; today, it’s still part of my musical routine.