OldYouTube
Browse YouTube as it looked from 2005 to 2016
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OldYouTube recreates YouTube as it looked each year from 2005 to 2016: the real archived layouts, real videos from that year, the old players and 5-star ratings. Pick a year on a period laptop and click around. Free, made by one person for fun.
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PH · launched Oct 27, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Media & entertainment
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- YouTube
- Entertainment
- Video
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Partial The year-by-year UI and players are vibe-codeable, but the authentic 2005–2016 layouts and the period-accurate videos require archived page snapshots and video data that a solo builder would have to source and may not have rights to use.
What it would actually take: Build a static frontend that replays archived YouTube HTML/CSS from Wayback Machine or similar captures, with a per-year routing layer. The hard part is acquiring and cleaning the historical layout archive and video catalog, and handling licensing and takedown risk. This needs data-sourcing work and legal judgment more than engineering skill.
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Attention rank: #61 of 151 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 300 days after the earliest competitor.
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