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Vinyl, CDs, tapes, streamin' — yin shelf. A snarky Clerk wha hands ye a record every nicht.
Ye own 1,247 records and three nights a week ye stand in front of them, paralysed, queueing up the same Beatles record like a pure animal. We made an app for that.
The Clerk picks one. One. Based on the weather, what ye played last Tuesday, the fact that it's a Dan the Automator anniversary naebody else minds, and the wee, undeniable fact that ye have not touched Demon Days in 114 days. He's not surfacing content he's handing ye a proper record.
He also reads liner notes, kens the pressing plant, minds the deadwax, and will slag off yer three Ween LPs without Chocolate and Cheese if ye give him half a chance.
I see ye've got three Ween albums but nae Chocolate and Cheese? That's like building a house and forgetting the roof. "Voodoo Lady" alone justifies the purchase. Get on that, mate.
Weather. Anniversaries. Last Tuesday's spin history. The forgotten LP at the back of yer B-section. He weighs all of it before he hands ye a sleeve. Not random. Not some pish algorithm trained on the entire internet. Trained on yer shelf, every day.
If ye don't like today's, hit "I'm Feeling Lucky." He'll cough and pick again.
New vinyl from artists ye own — sorted by release week, not by what some label paid to surface. Price drops on yer wantlist. Tour dates from anyone ye've got more than two records by.
Walk into any record shop, scan the barcode in yer hand: Already on yer shelf? The Clerk will tell ye. In one second. Without judgement, mostly.
Scan the barcode. Shazam the tune crackling overhead. Pull up the pressing, the deadwax, the personnel, the year of the actual cut ye're holding — not the canonical "release."
Nae signal. Nae bother. Yer whole shelf, every catalogue number ye own, every wantlist entry, lives in yer pocket. The basement bin is now playable.
One-click Discogs import (built for the 4,000-record monsters). File upload (.xls, .doc, the spreadsheet yer pal made ye in 2009). Last.fm scrobbling, free. One-click Apple Music + Tidal sync — MOSH only.
Yer physical shelf and yer digital library, side by side, organised the way yer brain already organises them. Two-way sync — Gatefold and Discogs stay in lockstep, automatically.
Maist "AI assistants" just gie ye the safe consensus answer. The Clerk gies ye an opinion — exactly like the lad ahint the counter at the record shop would.
He reads yer collection, yer liner notes, yer pressing data — and then tells ye what he actually thinks. He's a pure smart-arse aboot it. That's a feature, no a bug.
› tell me about this pressing of demon days
Oh, 2005 Parlophone UK first press — VG 8000. Mastered by Frank Arkwright at Abbey Road. Two LPs, 180g virgin vinyl. The bass on "Feel Good Inc" hits completely different than the 2014 repress because Arkwright used the original analogue masters, not the digital bounce they used later. Ye can literally hear the tape saturation on "November Has Come." This pressing goes for about $120–150 now.
› what else should I know
Dan the Automator mixed at Kong Studios — same board Bowie used for Heathen. De La Soul recorded their verse for "Feel Good Inc" in one take, sent the file over, Damon built the bassline around it. Danger Mouse produced half this album from a cupboard in the back of the studio because the budget was already gone. That cupboard energy is why the lo-fi tracks hit so hard. Aye, ye're welcome.
› build me a sunday playlist from my shelf. nothing after 1975
"Sunday, Slow" — 47 min, all yours, pal: Nick Drake Northern Sky · Bill Withers Grandma's Hands · Terry Callier Dancing Girl · Labi Siffre I Got The… · Gil Scott-Heron Lady Day and John Coltrane · Shuggie Otis Strawberry Letter 23 · Minnie Riperton Les Fleurs. All pulled from yer shelf. Want a Saturday-night version?
Ye've built what I'm calling the Mike Patton Cinematic Universe — Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, Tomahawk, all accounted for. But yer Soundgarden situation is criminal. Two albums when Cornell put oot six with that band alone. Fix that pish, mate.
I'm not a Silicon Valley suit trying to monetise yer listening habits. I'm a music nerd who got pure scunnered with soulless, clinical apps that quietly sell yer data to brokers and call it a feature.
I built Gatefold for us. The lights stay on two ways: Mosh Pit subscribers, or albums ye discover and buy through the app. That's the whole business model. Print it on the back of a flyer.
Nae tracking pixels. Nae "strategic partnerships" with data companies. Nae 47-tab onboarding. Ye fund the code, I keep building the ultimate crate-digger's companion. Deal?
Want a feature built? Don't email us. Don't fill out a Notion form. Don't tag us on Threads. Come tae /r/gatefoldfm and ask for it. If it's a belter, I'll build it. If it's pure pish, someone in the comments will explain why. That's the whole product roadmap.
Nae minimum collection size. Ten records is enough. The Clerk needs about that much before he can start finding patterns and taking the pish out of yer gaps.
Free works forever. The Mosh Pit unlocks FREE PLAY — unlimited Quarters, premium model, every roast he can think of.
Everything ye actually need to enjoy a collection: import, sync, search, scan, the daily spin pick, and a Clerk on a weekly Quarters allowance who will still rip the pish out of ye for free.
FREE PLAY. Smarter Clerk, unlimited everything, and the deep tools — a pressings discover card (OG / reissue / audiophile, side by side), custom notes on every album, multi-account Discogs, one-click two-way sync tae Apple Music or Tidal. The flag drops, the machine never asks for another quarter.
Import yer collection in a minute or two. The Clerk's already got yer first pick lined up. Free forever. Works with 10 records or 10,000.
