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A comment on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025).

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025) by gzmihai on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @07:47AM (#43545618)
I’ve been building Velty[1] over the past year as a tool to tame my ever-growing YouTube subscriptions. It’s a web app (PWA) that lets you organize your YouTube channels and videos into folders (with sub-folders), and view all the latest videos in one chronological feed with powerful filtering/sorting.

I built it because I was frustrated with how hard it was to manage a large number of channel subscriptions using YouTube’s default interface.

https://velty.app

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025) by reisr3 on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @11:33AM (#43557851)
This is great! It's very close to something I desperately want to exist: a way to peruse the YouTube videos' my friends are watching.

My algo often gets bad, and the best recommendations for YouTube videos come from friends' suggestions. And sometimes I just want to be recommended something totally different than what my algo would know about.

Would it be possible to add that feature?

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025) by gzmihai on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @06:18PM (#43562356)
The idea behind Velty is to let you consume your YouTube videos mainly in chronological order, without being at the mercy of the YouTube algorithm.

Sorry, I don’t plan to add that feature.

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