Watch random code typed out on an MS-DOS IDE
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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.
HN · launched Jul 27, 2026 · 17 upvotes (top 33%) · 0 views
Niche: developer data and local file viewers · 49 launches, 9 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 49 launches in developer data and local file viewers →
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 : 67 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #40 of 68 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 263 days after the earliest competitor.
- CodeMic · hn · 2026-02-08 · 52 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Record and share your coding sessions with CodeMic · hn · 2026-01-28 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Claude-replay · hn · 2026-03-06 · 105 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Agent Replay · ph · 2026-10-25 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Unwatch · ph · 2026-10-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Persistent Jupyter kernel execution and live output streaming in VSCode · hn · 2026-09-09 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- cinecode · github · 2026-11-03 · 581 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Claude Code Artifacts · ph · 2026-06-19 · 478 upvotes · similarity 0.38
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