By Alexandra Mier Y Teran
Staff Writer
After becoming tired of jamming solo this summer, senior Chris Caskey partnered up with senior Carson Boden to create an app called JAMSESH to share his passion for music with the world.
The concept for the app is to create a forum in which musicians can advertise their instrumental talents to one another, allowing them to come together with other aspiring musicians.
“I put my profile on this app, and say I’m looking for a drummer or bassist,” Caskey said. “I then put my ad out, and post it to a feed of people who are posting their own ads, so if they accept, we can start communicating and then eventually play together.”
Caskey enlisted Boden to work on the mechanical side of the app creating process, while Caskey continued to make his vision come to life.
“I play many different instruments, and playing yourself is only fun for so long,” Caskey said. “I had the idea for this app, which is kind of like a dating website for musicians to interact.”
While Caskey handles the creative side of the project, Boden focuses on the technologies of the app itself. He has been coding for the last five years, but this is the first major app he has worked on.
“I just happened to be one of the people who he contacted,” Boden said. “I took a class over the summer, and last year I took the Advanced Placement Java class here at Costa, which helped a lot in this app-making process. I also tried to do some work on my own, in terms of making small- scale designs.”
Caskey, who plays guitar, piano, ukulele, mandolin, harmonica and bass, is looking to expand the accessibility of the app to multiple musical genres and a variety of instruments, offering options for all musicians.
“Any instrument can be posted to an ad,” Caskey said. ‘In the future, each person’s profile will list all the instruments they play, what kind of genres they like to listen to, and feature any type of special information about them and their own taste.”
Although the app is still in its design phase, Caskey and Boden have big plans going forward. There is currently nothing like JAMSESH on the market, which is why they anticipate huge success with the app.
“The app is going to be free, but you can pay 99 cents to get rid of ads,” Caskey said. “This money will go back into the app, to buy more server space and to improve user experience.”
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