Fest of the Best

OK, it’s not an actual music festival — but we can dream with help of a USC Viterbi student’s app!

Ever thought about what your dream music festival would look like?

Anshay Saboo ’24 has, and he turned it into a mobile application that quickly became a sensation.

The USC Viterbi School of Engineering student’s recent app, Instafest, pulls data from users’ Spotify accounts to create a dream lineup that can be shared with friends. The result is a graphic that breaks up users’ most listened-to artists by day, showcased in a poster patterned after a certain Southern California music festival (ahem, Coachella).

Saboo, a computer science major, began working on the app in spring of 2022 when the music festival season began. that Spotify’s application programming interface — which allows him information like users’ top artists relatively easy to work with.

By November, it was ready just posted on my story, had a bunch friends post it, and the app just like wildfire,” he says. A week gained 16 million users.

“Music has an incredible bring people together,” Saboo just super cool to see everyone ing with the app and each other about music.”

TrojanFest: Inspired by the Instafest app, TFM created a dream Trojan lineup made up of artists who either attended USC or are closely affiliated with the Cardinal and Gold. To find out more about these artists, go to trojanfamily.usc.edu.