HackerTube for Apple TV. Videos HN Recommends, on Your TV
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Andrej Karpathy built HackerTube last week. It’s a site of YouTube videos recommended in HN comments. I wanted it on my TV, and I wanted it to stay current on its own. So I built an Apple TV app and a small backend that keeps the data fresh.The app is open source. You build it in Xcode and sideload it. It works with a free Apple ID.GH: /Jnaina/hackertube-tvos
HN · launched Nov 2, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 46%) · 0 views
Niche: streaming media players and tools · 257 launches, 28 in the last 7 days ▼ -28% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Search & retrieval
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
Could you build this?
Yes A tvOS SwiftUI app that reads a JSON feed, plus a small backend that scrapes HN comments for YouTube links, is a modest project that vibe coding handles well.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: HN flags posts that include a full GitHub link
Feature requests: Submit as a link post instead of a text post
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 180 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #87 of 181 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 365 days after the earliest competitor.
- hackertube.tv · github · 2026-11-01 · 73 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- HackerTV · hn · 2026-11-03 · 488 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- HackerTube · ph · 2026-11-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- HackerTube · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- MyTube · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Channel Surfer · hn · 2026-03-11 · 604 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- HackerFriction, HackerTube for what HN complains about · hn · 2026-11-05 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Mac TV · ph · 2026-11-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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