IMDb for YouTube (Long-Form Videos Only)
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I loved https://hackertube.org/ and I also love imdb/letterboxd, I'm surprised there's still no imdb for youtube
HN · launched Nov 6, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 86%) · 0 views
Niche: movie and tv tracking apps · 77 launches, 11 in the last 7 days ▲ +38% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Search & retrieval
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 77 launches in movie and tv tracking apps →
Could you build this?
Partial The browsing UI and YouTube metadata integration are easy to vibe-code. A useful version, though, needs a large, curated database of ratings, reviews, and long-form video coverage, which is a cold-start and community problem rather than a coding one.
What it would actually take: Pull video metadata and runtimes from the YouTube Data API and filter for long-form content, then build a Letterboxd-style layer on top with user accounts, ratings, reviews, and lists in a standard web stack like Next.js with Postgres. The hard part is seeding enough quality entries and reviews to be useful, which requires either a community with a moderation plan or a deliberate data bootstrapping strategy.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Requires Google login on first visit
Feature requests: Allow browsing without login
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 216 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #205 of 217 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 365 days after the earliest competitor.
- imemedb.net · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- HackerTV · hn · 2026-11-03 · 488 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- HackerTube for Apple TV. Videos HN Recommends, on Your TV · hn · 2026-11-02 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Free Movies Baby · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- awesome-claude-video · github · 2026-09-25 · 160 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- HackerTube · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Whip Web: Youtube for interactive web experiences · yc · 2026-09-09 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- hackertube.tv · github · 2026-11-01 · 73 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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