Watch random code typed out on an MS-DOS IDE
Details
- External ID
- 49065153
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Watch random code typed out on an MS-DOS IDE
- Website domain
- specr.net
- Launched
- July 27, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 17
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6726403823178017
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
As a software dev, I really enjoy having live coding videos playing in the background while I work. But it's surprisingly difficult to find hour+ long videos of coding without commentary on Youtube.What I really wanted was an infinite coding video, so I built one. Pick your IDE/monitor/ambience of choice, hit the Screensaver button, put it on a second monitor or TV, and enjoy infinite coding ASMR.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai video creation and repurposing
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- watch random code typed in ms-dos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A web app that streams pre-recorded or dynamically generated code into a retro DOS/Borland Turbo C-styled terminal interface with typing animations is easily built using standard frontend tools.
Discussion
8 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: RHIDE, Borland's Turbo C++
Concerns raised: Preview error occurring for some users, WebGL/shader requirements causing compatibility issues, Files typed top-to-bottom doesn't match real coding workflow
Feature requests: Support arbitrary/self-hosted git repositories (Gitea, etc.), AST-based code navigation between files and functions
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 35 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #21 of 36 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 263 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Loopcast · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.38
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- CodeSpotlight · ph · 2026-09-23 · 81 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- CodeQuest Learn code like playing game · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.37
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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