DanceJump For YouTube
turning videos into browser rhythm game
Details
- External ID
- 46619844
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- DanceJump For YouTube
- Website domain
- google.com
- Launched
- Jan. 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.09617918313570488
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hi HN,I built DanceJump as an experiment in making rhythm games more accessible. It overlays arrows on top of any YouTube video and lets you play directly in the browser using a keyboard, controller, or USB dance pad.It’s not meant to replace DDR or StepMania style simulators, but rather to make it possible to jump into songs that don’t normally have charts especially for quick or casual/family play.It currently ships as a Chrome extension because it needs tight integration with the YouTube player and low-latency input handling. Everything runs fully client-side, no accounts, no tracking.This started as a way to generate playable charts for songs that don’t normally exist in rhythm game libraries. I’d really value feedback on timing accuracy, input latency, and whether this feels usable compared to traditional setups.
Enrichment
- Theme
- audio and video developer utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- convert youtube videos into rhythm games
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a browser extension or web app overlaying standard rhythm game logic (canvas/HTML UI with Gamepad/keyboard event listeners) on top of an embedded YouTube iframe player.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Beat Saber, Sound Boxing
Concerns raised: Audio analysis fallback mode issues on some systems, Keyboard input (WASD) not registering for tempo establishment, Difficulty progression not intuitive or accessible, UI text unclear/typos ("tap to ARROWs"), Auto-charting doesn't work reliably in practice
Feature requests: Difficulty auto-increase as user gets more correct hits, Manual difficulty adjustment controls beyond pause/unpause, Increase arrow density/step density as song progresses
Competitors
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Attention rank: #178 of 183 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 77 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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