KidScreen, a finite YouTube shelf chosen by parents
Details
- External ID
- 49270881
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- KidScreen, a finite YouTube shelf chosen by parents
- Website domain
- kidscreen.app
- Launched
- Aug. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 43
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8481182795698925
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- web development and browser utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- parent-curated youtube content for kids
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a straightforward web app with simple user authentication, database CRUD for saved YouTube URLs, and an embedded video player interface.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: YouTube-dl / yt-dlp, Native YouTube with SafeSearch filters, Device-level parental controls (Screen Time)
Concerns raised: Forced signup before explaining what product does, Does not work across all devices/platforms (only web browser), What happens when curated videos get deleted or age-restricted upstream, Doesn't replace parental supervision or device-level controls, How to solve this vs. building custom solution with youtube-dl
Feature requests: School administration features (classroom management, provisioning), Native mobile/TV app versions, Offline video download capability, Whitelist tied to specific student classes with admin controls
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 254 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #44 of 255 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 286 days after the earliest competitor.
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- I Built a Tool to Turn YouTube into Structured Courses · hn · 2025-12-29 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Rundown · hn · 2026-06-20 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- A search engine for deleted YouTube videos (1.5B+ indexed since 2005) · hn · 2026-05-09 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- resonate · github · 2026-09-23 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- yt-marketing-bot · github · 2026-09-17 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- I made a tool at 17 to turn YouTube videos into viral clips · hn · 2026-03-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Transcribee: YouTube transcriber that builds a knowledge base · hn · 2026-01-29 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.43
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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