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When the artist is the client: Enharmonic

I build platforms for businesses that have outgrown their tools. Turns out my own art had, too.

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Most of what I build is for other people's businesses. Enharmonic is what happens when I turn the same tools on my own art.

Enharmonic is my music project — I produce electronic music, and released an EP called The Angels in January. Like a lot of artists, I had the same problem my clients have: the work was real, but the systems around it were a mess of half-fit tools. Tracks scattered across drives and DAWs and streaming platforms, and no single place that was mine to see and shape the whole body of work.

Treating my art like it deserves a platform

The instinct, when it's your own creative work, is to not bother — to tell yourself a spreadsheet is fine, that building for yourself is indulgent. I did the opposite on purpose. I decided my artistry was worth the same treatment I give a paying client: a real, owned platform built around how the work actually lives.

So I built Enharmonic.io — a Spotify-style application for managing and interacting with my own music collection. Not a portfolio page. A proper app on its own Supabase backend, where the catalog is organized, playable, and mine to extend.

Why this one matters to me

There's a reason I keep building for myself alongside the client work. The dual life — artist and operator — isn't a bio quirk; it's the actual engine of how I work. When I treat my own art as a client worth building for, I stay honest about what building for something really takes: the care, the taste, the refusal to ship a template with a logo dropped on top.

Enharmonic is the smallest, most personal version of the whole OhDavid thesis: the thing you make deserves to exist online at the same level you experience it in your head. Even when — especially when — the client is you.


Live: https://enharmonic.io

By the numbers

  • Album Tracks: 10
  • Platforms: 4
  • Dependencies: 0
  • Grammy Awards: 2×

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David Kerns

David Kerns

Operator, builder, creative. Sharing thoughts on the intersection of operations, product, and making things that matter.

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