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1988.in — Feel 1988. No skip.

Experience the 1988 era of Doordarshan.

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Details

External ID
1272302
Source
PH
Company
—
Product
1988.in — Feel 1988. No skip.
Website domain
producthunt.com
Launched
Oct. 7, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
4
Upvotes percentile
0.9253460086676919
Tags
GitHub, Entertainment
Fetched at
Oct. 8, 2026, 1 a.m.
Updated at
Oct. 8, 2026, 1 a.m.

Description

Instead of reels, feel 1988. A CRT television in the browser with no skip button. The programme is already on. Change the channel, or stay with it.

Enrichment

Niche
movie and media discovery tools
Vertical
Media & entertainment
Function
Content generation
Audience
B2C
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
nostalgic retro tv streaming experience for vintage television fans
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes It is a retro-styled web player simulating a CRT TV streaming vintage Doordarshan video clips with simple channel switching controls.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 3 launches clear the similarity bar.

Attention rank: #1 of 4 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 25 days after the earliest competitor.

Other launches for this product

Same idea, different domain

Nobody's really built a content generation tool for Government yet.