A different way to find a good video.
HackerTube, shared links and a small example of building the thing you wanted to use.
I shared HackerTube because the idea caught my attention: a different starting point for finding videos, built around recommendations from Hacker News rather than your usual feed.
The site has search, categories and ways to keep videos for later. You can browse it with a topic in mind instead of only following the next recommendation.
Why this small project is interesting
In my post, I wrote about Karpathy building it with Claude. The part I find useful is the shape of the problem: something about an existing experience was frustrating, so he made a version he wanted to use.
That’s a useful place to look for project ideas. You don’t always need to begin with a grand product concept. A small repeated annoyance can be enough to give you an input, an output and a way to tell whether the result helps.
Try one question
What is one thing you repeatedly search for, sort by hand or collect in a folder? Write down what you want the result to look like before choosing tools.
AI can make the building part easier. Deciding what you actually want to build still deserves a little thought :))