I made a TV for old cartoons
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Details
- External ID
- 49993256
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I made a TV for old cartoons
- Website domain
- cartoontv.xyz
- Launched
- Oct. 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.2857142857142857
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Oct. 8, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 8, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Niche
- creative coding and visual tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- custom tv device for retro cartoons
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a web client that embeds official YouTube videos synced to a virtual daily broadcast schedule, requiring only basic frontend scheduling logic and the YouTube IFrame API.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: YouTube
Concerns raised: Copyright infringement and piracy
Competitors
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Launched 330 days after the earliest competitor.
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