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Host a Spindle Challenge

A week of daily prompts, shaped by your taste, played through by a small crowd that gives a damn.

You're being invited to host a Challenge because your taste is the point. Spindle Challenges aren't generic listening prompts — they're a week (or two, or month) of daily picks shaped by a single person with a specific lens. Yours.

What a Challenge is

A Challenge is a sequence of daily prompts. Each day, players submit one record from their collection that answers the prompt. Other players see picks, leave reactions, and a small community forms around your week. The whole thing lives or dies on the prompts.

What a prompt looks like

One line. Specific. Answerable from a real collection. Examples: “A record you bought drunk,” “Side D of a double LP,” “An album you only play in the kitchen.”

Voice

Write like you're texting a friend who knows records. Specific beats clever. Constraints beat themes. A prompt that rules out half the obvious picks is doing its job.

Do: be opinionated, use constraints (decade, format, mood, instrument, length, lyric), leave room for surprise.

Don't:write prompts with one obvious right answer, use generic superlatives (“best,” “favorite,” “greatest”), theme a whole week around one genre unless that's the explicit pitch, or reference current events that'll feel dated in three months.

Arc

Your Challenge has shape. Day 1 invites people in. Mid-week prompts push harder. The final day pays off the pitch.

What happens next

  1. You submit this form.
  2. We review within a week. We may push back on 1–2 prompts.
  3. We schedule it. You promote on launch day with assets we provide.
  4. After it runs, we send you a short debrief.

About you

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Your Challenge

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Daily prompts

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