Company
Music shouldn't be locked up
Phonq exists to give phonk — and the artists who make it — a free, legal, open home.
Our story
How Phonq came to be
From a weekend prototype to a full open-source platform — in three short chapters.
The prototype
Phonq started as a weekend experiment: a hand-rolled HTML5 audio player with canvas waveforms and a local library of phonk tracks. It worked, and people liked it.
The reset
We realized the future was a legal, scalable platform — not a folder of local MP3s. We paused development and planned a full rewrite around the Jamendo Creative Commons catalog.
Phonq 1.0
A from-scratch Next.js platform: global player, live waveform, accounts, favorites, playlists, history and a 500K+ track catalog. Fully open source under MIT.
Principles
What we believe
Free means free
No hidden tiers. No 'premium' features. The catalog is legally free to stream, so we keep it that way for everyone.
Open by default
The code is open, the roadmap is public, and the decisions are made in the open. Anyone can contribute or fork.
Artists first
We stream only licensed music, credit artists everywhere, and drive listeners back to their pages on Jamendo.
Want to be part of it?
We're always looking for contributors. Start with an issue, or just hang out.