hadisafa's comments

On: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

[hadisafa]

This is built using the official youtube api.

https://developers.google.com/youtube/iframe_api_reference

On: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

[hadisafa]

The video id is on the bottom right.

On: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

[hadisafa]

For now you can't, but i'll be adding more features soon.

[lagniappe → hadisafa]

I noticed you have a BTC address listed. I showed your app to my friends and one of them who doesn't have an HN account asked if you have a "Solana" address.

On: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

[hadisafa]

Thank you for the feedback.

1) The static shows when the video is buffering, maybe it's a slow network problem?

2) The string is a bitcoin address :)

On: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

[hadisafa]

When a channel reaches the last video, list.json will be fetched to get an updated list of videos.

[jeffhuys → hadisafa]

I see that you're the creator, I absolutely love what you made :)

I'm curious, do you generate that list on-the-fly, based on the current time/day? Or is it more static?

[newswasboring → hadisafa]

How are you making this list? The thing I surprisingly miss about tv is that what to watch was someone else's problem. YouTube overwhelms me with choices, TV was simple, I liked maybe 4-5 channels and (I later realized) I was implicitly trusting them to have something good on.

If I was allowed to dream, I imagine a world where that specialization is brought back. People curating a feed, which was on average good.

[jeffhuys → newswasboring]

The author was replying to everyone, even me, but didn’t respond to my question about how the list is made.

This makes me assume that it’s hand-made. If so, it’ll probably get 1 or 2 updates (if even that many) and then remain static as the creator loses interest. Wouldn’t be the first time.

EDIT: list has changed. Trying to track it, we'll see what happens. I really hope the author has some way to search Youtube for trending videos based on some query/tag, and re-generates a list once a day or something like that.

[newswasboring → jeffhuys]

Again, if I am allowed to dream, we can have a community around the exchange of these list files.

[thruway516 → newswasboring]

The possibilities are endless. You can build a site that lets any user create their own personalized tv with content from any streaming provider that has an api. This can be done in a few hours literally. And you don't even have to host them since it's all client side javascript. Honestly if I weren't so busy with my own project I would consider contacting OP to see what we could do with this.

[jeffhuys → newswasboring]

That would be an amazing addition!

Well, this website is completely cloneable, the JS is non-minified, so adding in community lists is certainly possible. Maybe just a tool to create those lists collaboratively. Good idea!

On: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

[hadisafa]

Yes everyone is watching the same content at the same time just like an actual TV channel.

On: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

[hadisafa]

The content is hand picked, no algorithms :)

[ProllyInfamous → hadisafa]

Incredible. Thanks for your dedication; today's reaction should either inspire you, or result in a Cease and Desist (I hope it's just the former).

On: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

[hadisafa]

There is no backend, just plain html, css and js. The source is public.

[strangecyan → hadisafa]

Amazing! Are you generating the list.json and just pushing new data when it's due to run out? Or is there some logic that loops it?

On: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

[hadisafa]

Thank you.

On: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

[hadisafa]

I'll add more control options soon :)

[johnmaguire → hadisafa]

Closed captions would be really awesome so I can watch without sound.

[acd10j → hadisafa]

don’t add too many features, one of the usp of this is simplicity and suspense.