TubeHaus
an open-source YouTube client with no Google account
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HN · launched Nov 5, 2026 · 21 upvotes (top 25%) · 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
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial The client UI is vibe-codeable, but playing YouTube content without an account depends on reverse-engineered, frequently changing internal endpoints, which is a hard and fragile piece.
What it would actually take: The UI and playback layer can be built with a standard web stack. The hard part is reliably resolving stream URLs and metadata from YouTube's undocumented interfaces, which break whenever YouTube changes them. Keeping it working requires ongoing reverse engineering and maintenance, often via a backend extraction service.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Feature requests: lightweight social network feeding an open recommendation engine, sub-identities for separate interest profiles, share recommendation algorithms between users
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1202 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #296 of 1203 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 366 days after the earliest competitor.
- YoutubeAutomation · github · 2026-10-27 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Skipii · github · 2026-10-12 · 67 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Rundown · hn · 2026-06-20 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- A search engine for deleted YouTube videos (1.5B+ indexed since 2005) · hn · 2026-05-09 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- tubeai-skills · github · 2026-09-24 · 42 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- TubeHaus · ph · 2026-11-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Open-Source MCP Servers · hn · 2026-04-10 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Tiny Tube · hn · 2026-10-27 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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