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HackerTube: a YouTube clone built from videos recommended on Hacker News
A YouTube-style site cataloguing 6,454 videos recommended in Hacker News comments from 2007-2026, built in about two hours with Claude Code and Opus 5.5.
Why it matters
A working product built almost entirely by talking to a coding agent: data pipeline, filtering, UI, deployment and hardening, with only an API key, a VPS and a domain supplied by hand.
What you could build with it
A niche community could turn a decade of its own forum link recommendations into a browsable video library: an indie developer could mine years of member-shared tutorials, rank each video by how often members recommended it, and ship an account-free site with topic browsing and data export, giving newcomers the community's best material without an algorithmic feed.
Does it hold up?
Live and browsable on day one, with a 6,454-video catalogue, topic browsing and data export; curation quality rests on one person's HN-derived corpus rather than ongoing moderation, so it is a compelling demo of agentic builds more than a maintained video service.
Built with HackerTube
- HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HNHacker News · Front-page HN thread (about 955 points, 295 comments) discussing the build, with commenters noting the site was built by Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code and that its data can be exported.
- Andrej Karpathy builds HackerTube from 6,454 videos recommended on Hacker NewsRuntimeWire · Writeup framing HackerTube as a demonstration of agentic coding replacing a mass-market recommendation feed with a personal one built from a trusted public corpus.
- HackerTube Launches: YouTube Clone Built by Claude Opus Using HN DataToday for AI · Coverage of the launch noting the workflow filtered nearly two decades of HN recommendation data down to 6,454 videos to counter algorithmic recommendations.
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