my-yt
Consumer and social
video frontend
SHOW HN2025
How HN took it
13 positive, 24 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 11 critical, out of 49 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.
Idea: 9 for, 5 againstExecution: 3 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean native web components, no React bloat
From 1 comment
So refreshing to see native web components and not some React monstrosity with 500 extra dependencies.
mdhb on HN
Docker image makes setup easy
From 1 comment
That's pretty great, just tried it. I'd have a few feature requests: - Make it possible to delete downloaded videos - Show more than just a few weeks worth of videos per channel.…
jfim on HN
Objections
Needs Docker or Node, too hard for non-technical users
From 1 comment
Seems it needs docker and/or NodeJS and runs as a server, so not something most of the non technical users out there would use. This makes widespread adoption unlikely. If it was…
aussieguy1234 on HN
Requests
Download quality options, including 4K via webm merge
From 1 comment
Would really appreciate if you could add some options for download quality(with webm merge for 4k support), gave it a go and it just by default downloads the 360p MP4.
pierrefermat1 on HN
Delete downloaded videos
From 1 comment
That's pretty great, just tried it. I'd have a few feature requests: - Make it possible to delete downloaded videos - Show more than just a few weeks worth of videos per channel.…
jfim on HN
Show more than recent videos per channel
From 1 comment
That's pretty great, just tried it. I'd have a few feature requests: - Make it possible to delete downloaded videos - Show more than just a few weeks worth of videos per channel.…
jfim on HN
Download a single video without subscribing
From 1 comment
That's pretty great, just tried it. I'd have a few feature requests: - Make it possible to delete downloaded videos - Show more than just a few weeks worth of videos per channel.…
jfim on HN
Questions
Will it run on FireTV or Samsung TVs?
From 1 comment
great to see this, absolutely need to try it out. it is awful that a paid subscription product like YouTube does actually aim to give their (paying) users the worst experience…
dinkblam on HN
Does it work with SponsorBlock?
From 1 comment
How does yt-dlp work with sponsorblock? Does it download the video can snip out segments? I wish PLEX still had youtube plugin. Right now I have a googlesheet script that adds…
maxglute on HN
Alternatives named
Freetube
From 2 comments
Freetube is great alternative. Personally I don't even use it to watch the video and instead open them in browser, but it allows to monitor the channel you want and only that…
aucisson_masque on HNFreetube, invidious and newpipe are still the best frontends imo
udev4096 on HN
Invidious
From 2 comments
Freetube, invidious and newpipe are still the best frontends imo
udev4096 on HNI wonder how many front/proxies exists: - invidious what else ?
agumonkey on HN
NewPipe
From 1 comment
Freetube, invidious and newpipe are still the best frontends imo
udev4096 on HN
Grayjay
From 1 comment
Grayjay also has a desktop app that does this very well. https://grayjay.app/
duffpkg on HN
Pinchflat
From 1 comment
Just got done setting up Pinchflat this morning as I need jellyfin and sponsorblock integration but it’s always great to see a nice gui around yt-dlp with some new niche features.
nickthegreek on HN