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I built a retro TV for developers — one HTML file, no backend, 15+ live channels (and some of you are already on it) Hey everyone 👋 Quick update on DEV·TV, the retro, channel-surfing TV for developer content that runs entirely in your browser. (New here? I built it because I was tired of hopping between a dozen tabs every morning for new models, trending repos and indie projects.) 🔗 Live: shouvik12.github.io ⭐ Repo: shouvik12/devtv What’s new - 💻 LOCAL MODELS (ch 14, shipped today): new models you can run on your own machine, refreshed daily by a GitHub Action - ☁️ CLOUD MODELS (ch 11): the old NEW MODELS channel, renamed now that local has its own channel - ⭐ SPOTLIGHT (ch 15): SeoLoupe and Augur, both found right here on r/AppsWebappsFullstack, are now on air The full lineup GITHUB · HACKER NEWS · DEV · HUGGING FACE · RELEASES · AI PAPERS · LATEST PAPERS · CVE · HN VIDEO · AI VIDEO · CLOUD MODELS · AGENT SKILLS · MODEL FACE-OFF · LOCAL MODELS · SPOTLIGHT There’s also a GUIDE that shows what’s on every channel (arrow keys + Enter, like a real TV), YOU ON TV, a 2× speed button, and fake commercial breaks with free “ads” for indie dev tools. Still one file The whole app is a single index.html: no framework, no build step, no server, hosted free on GitHub Pages, Apache-2.0. It was #5 Product of the Day on Product Hunt and #1 on IndieLink. For this sub Spotlight and commercial-break slots are free for indie devs. Hit Submit your project at the bottom of the TV, or email [devtv.developers@gmail.com](mailto:devtv.developers@gmail.com). What’s next V2 stays single-file forever. V3 is a separate track with a minimal backend: accounts, likes, personalized recommendations, and a directory of everything featured. I’m looking for volunteers to help shape that roadmap. What channel should I build next? 📡

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Every slide says “wins on specs,” never “better model.” OpenRouter has no benchmark data, and I’d rather be honest than impressive. Still one HTML file. No API key, no backend. Full write-up: dev.to ⭐ shouvik12/devtv

A Star Is Vanity. This One Wasn't. --- title: A Star Is Vanity. This One Wasn't. published: true description: I messaged the founder of Ponytail, and he starred my repo and gave me a product idea. Why that beat every metric I've ever checked. tags: devjournal, opensource, ai, buildinpublic cover_image: --- Stars are vanity. Everyone says so, and everyone is right. Then Dietrich Gebert, the founder of Ponytail, a repo with around 164k stars of its own, starred one of mine. I'd messaged him out of the blue. That's the part I almost didn't do. The senior dev who writes one line If you haven't met Ponytail, picture the laziest senior dev you've ever worked with. Long ponytail. Oval glasses. You show him fifty lines. He says nothing and replaces them with one. Ponytail puts that guy inside your AI agent. Before anything gets built, it asks: does this need to exist? Then it climbs down a ladder: reuse what's already in the codebase, use the standard library, use a native platform feature, and only then write the minimum. It works, too. Ponytail 5 reports 53% less code, 41% less time, 26% lower cost, and 98% of risky logic still ships with a test (68% without it). My favorite proof is the date picker. Without Ponytail, the agent hand-builds a 335-line calendar. With it, you get 10 lines that reuse the repo's Input and let the browser bring the calendar. Less code, no less safe. That idea got into my head and stayed there. Two projects with his fingerprints on them I've followed Dietrich's journey for a long time, and it changed what I build: - Token Sensei gives AI agents an execution budget and pauses at a checkpoint so you decide whether to continue. - Sir Shortoken is a disciplined AI persona with a one-line promise: know more, say less, prove it. It aims for 40–60% shorter technical explanations with the core concepts intact, plus a ledger at the end of every reply. Different projects, same stance: respect the reader's time, and make every line earn its place. I was building in his direction long before he knew I existed. The message So I wrote to him about DEV·TV, my solo project that turns the developer internet (GitHub, Hacker News, new models, agent skills) into live TV channels. I asked for two things: permission to feature Ponytail on the Spotlight channel, and honest feedback, even if it was bad. He said yes to the Spotlight. He liked the idea. And he gave me something better than a compliment: a product idea. A personalized channel that learns what each viewer cares about, so they see what matches their taste instead of what's merely nearby. That's now on my v3 roadmap. He starred my repo before Ponytail even went live on Spotlight. A small thing for him, and a huge one for me. !Ponytail spotlight What a star can't measure I still believe stars are vanity. But this one came with a person behind it, someone whose work shaped mine, saying: this is worth your time. What I took from it: 1. Feedback beats metrics. One real reply from a builder you respect outweighs a thousand anonymous stars. 2. Following builders is mentorship. You don't need their permission, and they don't need to know you're watching. 3. Send the message. The worst case is silence. The best case is this post. If you've built something, send it to the person who inspired it. And if you want your project on the DEV·TV Spotlight, reach out to me on X or here in the comments. Links - 📺 DEV·TV · ⭐ GitHub - 🪢 Ponytail · ponytail.dev - 🥋 Token Sensei · Sir Shortoken

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I built a TV for developers 📺 (13 live channels, no signup) --- title: I built a TV for developers 📺 (13 live channels, no signup) published: true description: DEV·TV is a retro TV that streams GitHub, Hacker News, new models, papers and CVEs in your browser. #5 Product of the Day on Product Hunt. tags: showdev, webdev, opensource, ai --- I have a confession. I open ten tabs every morning just to find out what happened in tech overnight. GitHub trending, Hacker News, DEV, Hugging Face, new releases, security advisories... and by 9am I've read none of it properly. So I did the most 2005 thing possible: I built a TV. 📺 You turn it on. It plays. You flip channels. That's it. 🔴 ON AIR: shouvik12.github.io ⭐ Open source (Apache-2.0): shouvik12/devtv {% embed youtube.com %} > No signup. No account. No "accept cookies to continue". Just click. --- 🎛️ 13 channels, 13 colors Every channel has its own color, so you always know where you are. !13 channels, 13 colors Click any story and it opens inside the TV. Read the whole thing, hit Esc, and you're back on air. --- 🕹️ It works like a remote | Key | What it does | |---|---| | ← → | Change channel | | 1–9 | Jump to a channel | | G | Open the Guide ("what's on now") | | Space | Play / freeze | | Esc | Close the story | There's an ON AIR light, a live clock, a scrolling news ticker, and a NOW / NEXT / LATER strip on every channel. Yes, I went too far. No, I'm not sorry. --- 🎨 Pick your skin Because a TV should have personality. Dark for late-night coding, wood for that 1970s living-room vibe, cream for when you want to feel like it's 1984. !Dark, wood and cream skins --- ⭐ Channel 13 belongs to you Spotlight is where I put projects by other developers. It's free, and I pick them by hand. Built something? Hit "Get your project featured" on the site, or use "You on TV" to put your own GitHub project on air. If it's good, it goes on the channel with your README or demo video in the reader. --- 🏆 Then it got a little crazy - 🥉 #5 Product of the Day on Product Hunt - 🏅 #1 on IndieLink I expected a few friends to click it. Instead it hit #5 Product of the Day on Product Hunt and #1 on IndieLink. --- 🛠️ How it's built One HTML file. Nothing else. DEV·TV is vanilla HTML, CSS and JavaScript. No framework, no build step, no npm packages, no backend. It's a static page, so it lives on GitHub Pages for free and I never touch a server. How the channels work Your browser calls each public API directly with fetch(): | Channel | Where it comes from | |---|---| | 📈 GitHub | GitHub API: repos created recently, sorted by stars | | 📦 Releases | GitHub API: release notes for React, Vue, TypeScript, Node.js, Python and Rust | | 🟧 Hacker News | The official HN Firebase API | | 💻 DEV | The DEV API: top articles of the day | | 🤗 Hugging Face | Hugging Face API: trending models | | 🧪 AI Papers | Hugging Face API: papers being discussed | | 📄 Latest Papers | OpenAlex: newest papers by publication date | The newer channels (CVE, HN Video, AI Video, New Models and Agent Skills) work the same way: straight from the browser, no backend. Every channel refreshes on its own timer, and if one fails it just shows SIGNAL LOST while the others keep playing. Stories you open (READMEs, model cards, abstracts, HN comments) are fetched only when you click them. The fun engineering bits - No backend means picking sources carefully. Reddit, X, LinkedIn and Product Hunt were out, because they need a server or keys. arXiv was out too, because its API doesn't allow browser requests (CORS). - Rate limits are a budget. GitHub allows 60 unauthenticated requests per hour per IP, so the GitHub-backed channels are spaced to use about 42, leaving room for README reads. - Fetched content can't inject HTML. Everything is escaped first, then run through a whitelisted markdown converter, and links and images must be http or https. - The static is real static. The TV noise between channels is per-pixel random noise drawn in code, not an image. - Settings are saved in localStorage, so it remembers your channels and speed. No account needed. --- 📣 Your turn 📺 Which channel should I add next? Tell me in the comments. ⭐ If you like it, a star on GitHub means a lot. 🚀 If you've built something, send it to the Spotlight. Now go flip some channels.

DEV·TV won the week on IndieNeed 🏆 (a single HTML file, no backend) --- title: DEV·TV won the week on IndieNeed 🏆 (a single HTML file, no backend) published: true description: How a one-file, zero-infrastructure TV for developers finished #1 for the week on IndieNeed, and why indie makers should launch there. tags: showdev, webdev, opensource, indieneed cover_image: --- DEV·TV just finished #1 for the week of Oct 5 on IndieNeed 🏆, ahead of Aethel Audio and Ovatly. !Leaderboard It launched on Saturday, topped that day's launches, and held on through the end of the week. Not bad for a side project that's one index.html file on GitHub Pages. Why I launched on IndieNeed IndieNeed is a launch board built for indie makers, and it's one of the friendliest places I've launched so far: - Listing is quick. I went from submitting to live without any friction. - Every product gets a real launch day in "Today's launches," so small projects aren't buried under big companies. - Weekly winners are archived on the leaderboard, so a good week keeps working for you after it ends. - The community actually comments. I got feedback and questions, not just clicks. If you've built something and you're nervous about launching to a huge crowd, start here. It's a great first stage for indie projects. What DEV·TV is DEV·TV is a retro TV for developer news. You flip channels instead of opening tabs: - GITHUB, HACKER NEWS, DEV, HUGGING FACE, RELEASES - AI PAPERS, LATEST PAPERS, CVE, HN VIDEO, AI VIDEO - NEW MODELS (fresh listings from OpenRouter) and AGENT SKILLS (new Claude skill repos on GitHub) - SPOTLIGHT: projects built by the community Press G for the channel guide and see what's on every channel right now. The "no infrastructure" part There's no server, no database, no API keys and no login. Every channel is fetched straight from public APIs in your own browser, and results are cached locally so a failing source never takes the TV down. Each channel loads on its own, so if one is having a bad day, the rest keep playing. That also means it costs nothing to run, however many people tune in. ★ YOU ON TV The newest feature: type any GitHub username and DEV·TV runs a special news report on that developer, with top repos, stars, account age and activity, written in breaking-news style from real data. You can download the card or share it. Try yours and tell me what the headline says. The road so far - Product Hunt: #5 Product of the Day - IndieNeed: #1 on launch day, then #1 for the week - Spotlight: real community projects on air, including CiCrew and Astratide - First outside contribution: fullscreen support, from @Ashish2712 🙌 Get your project on the Spotlight If you've built something developers would enjoy, the Spotlight channel is free to be on. Two ways in: 1. Press ★ YOU ON TV, enter your username, and tap Submit for Spotlight 2. Or open the form directly: shouvik12.github.io I review every entry by hand. Thank you Big thanks to the IndieNeed team for building a launch board that gives indie projects a fair shot, and to everyone who tried DEV·TV, voted, commented, filed an idea or sent a project. A week ago this was a TV only I watched. 📺 Watch: shouvik12.github.io ⭐ Source (Apache-2.0): shouvik12/devtv What channel should I add next?

What would your GitHub look like as a TV news report? DEV·TV is a free, open-source TV for developer content: one index.html, no backend. This week it got a new key, ★ YOU ON TV. Type any GitHub username and the TV breaks into a special report about that developer, built only from their public profile: - BREAKING: "Octo Dev has been shipping on GitHub since 2016. Sources confirm they have not stopped." - BY THE NUMBERS: stars across their own repos - LANGUAGE DESK: their top language, with a joke to match. For Rust: "The borrow checker has issued a statement of approval." - FAN FAVOURITE: their most-starred project - DEVELOPING STORY: their latest push - AUDIENCE: their followers Then copy a link (?on=username opens straight on that report), post it on X, or download a 1200×675 card with the link printed on it. !Github report How it works Two public GitHub API calls from the visitor's own browser: the profile, and up to 100 repos. No keys, no login, nothing stored. Forks are left out of every count, so one popular fork can't inflate someone's stars, and everything from the profile is escaped before it reaches the page. The card is drawn on a canvas, so there's no screenshot library either. From report to Spotlight DEV·TV has a Spotlight channel for community projects. The report ends with a Submit for Spotlight button: - You pick one of your top three original repos. Forks, archived repos and your profile README repo are skipped, because "most-starred" is often an old tutorial or a template. - The details are filled in from the repo, and you can edit them first. - Nothing is sent until you tap, and I choose what goes on the channel by hand. Because anyone can type any username, the submission I receive says GitHub ownership isn't verified, so I check before I feature anyone. Limits GitHub allows 60 unauthenticated requests per hour per IP. If you see "rate limit reached", wait a few minutes. Try it - Live: shouvik12.github.io - Source (Apache-2.0): shouvik12/devtv Press ★ YOU ON TV, type your username, and tell me what your report says.

CiCrew Is Spotlight #2 on DEV·TV 📺 Yesterday, I added the first project to DEV·TV Community Spotlight. Today, there’s another one. CiCrew is now Spotlight #2. 📺 cicrew.com This is exactly why I built the Spotlight feature in the first place. DEV·TV is a TV for the developer internet. It continuously surfaces things happening across GitHub, Hacker News, developer communities, AI, security, research, releases, and more. But there was something missing. The people actually building things needed some airtime too. 📺 Meet CiCrew CiCrew is a prompt-based app builder. You start with an idea for a mobile app, describe what you want, review the screens, and then refine the result through chat. From there, you can build and test a first version, with help preparing for an App Store launch. It’s a pretty good fit for DEV·TV because it sits right in the middle of several things developers are experimenting with right now: AI + app development + no-code + mobile. 🌐 Spotlight #2 The first Spotlight was Astratide. Now it’s CiCrew. Two very different projects, but that’s actually the point. I don't want Community Spotlight to become a curated list of the same kind of developer tool over and over. I want it to show what people are actually making. A new project can appear on the TV, get its own Spotlight URL, and become part of the stream. For CiCrew, you can jump straight to its airtime here: shouvik12.github.io Or simply leave DEV·TV running and let it come up naturally. 📡 A small experiment is becoming a channel When I launched DEV·TV, I wasn't sure whether the community would care about a developer TV. Then people started watching it. Then projects started getting submitted. Now there are multiple projects appearing in Community Spotlight. That's interesting to me. Because the original idea was a TV for the developer internet. Spotlight makes that idea a little more personal. Instead of only showing what is happening around developers, the TV can also show what developers are building. 🚀 Built something? Community Spotlight is free. No ads. No payment. No sponsored placement. If you've built something and want to put it on the developer internet's TV, send it in. Maybe you'll be Spotlight #3. 📺 Watch DEV·TV shouvik12.github.io 💻 DEV·TV on GitHub shouvik12/devtv 🔨 Check out CiCrew cicrew.com #ai #appdevelopment #nocode #mobile !DEV·TV Community Spotlight featuring CiCrew