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…organize, etc the videos you have on your computer, external hard drives, or network drives. https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

comment by yboris · 2026-09-14 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

Releasing 3.3.0 version of my Video Hub App - https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App/ & https://videohubapp.com - 8+ years of development! Working on 1.0.0 of Simple Image Browser - https://github.com/whyboris/Simple-Image-Browser…

comment by yboris · 2026-08-10 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

…update: browse, search, tag, rate, enjoy your large video collection! https://videohubapp.com/en/ & https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App/ Simplest File Renamer - just ported from Electron (130m install) to Tauri (3mb install) -…

comment by yboris · 2026-07-13 · in Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

…before I finally get to the (optional) facial recognition "search by face similarity" feature. https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App https://videohubapp.com/

comment by yboris · 2026-04-12 · in Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

…have been developing theirs for years. Very frustrating. mine: https://videohubapp.com/ my GitHub: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App grifter: https://videocliplibrary.com/

comment by yboris · 2026-04-02 · in Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own

…for browsing and organizing video files across local and network drives. https://videohubapp.com/ & https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

comment by yboris · 2026-03-09 · in Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

Unsure what this means but I appreciate contributors / collaborators over on GitHub: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App Feel free to message me: https://videohubapp.com/en/contact/

comment by yboris · 2025-12-21 · in Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

…to the 3.1.0 (!) Intel version The Github release page appears to list all available versions: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App/releases To me, it would have been clearer to avoid the “Demo” button label altogether and be explicit…

comment by jotaen · 2025-12-18 · in Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

…(Windows, Max, Linux; keep forever) https://videohubapp.com/ MIT open source (build your own copy) https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

comment by yboris · 2025-12-18 · in Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

…Hub App - browse and organize your local video collection in style. https://videohubapp.com/ & https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App (MIT open source)

comment by yboris · 2025-12-15 · in Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

…thumbnails to see multiple screenshots) $5 for anyone https://videohubapp.com Free for anyone https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

comment by yboris · 2025-11-10 · in Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

…style. Maybe will finally finish the (optional!) facial recognition feature I started 5+ years ago. https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App & https://videohubapp.com/

comment by yboris · 2025-10-13 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)

The "hub" or database / save file has extension `.vha2` but it's a simple text JSON with this format: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App/blob/main/interfac...

comment by yboris · 2025-09-08 · in Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management

…Only local - nothing goes online with my app. https://videohubapp.com/ and it's open source: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

comment by yboris · 2025-09-08 · in Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management

Aiming to have a small-feature release of my Video Hub App this summer: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App & https://videohubapp.com/ If you have videos you want to browse, preview, search, tag, sort, etc on your computer, my…

comment by yboris · 2025-06-30 · in Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

…Video Hub App - with scrub-able thumbnail previews of all your videos. https://videohubapp.com/ & https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

comment by yboris · 2025-04-12 · in But what if I want a faster horse?

…hoping to find some time to add a feature or two to my Video Hub App https://videohubapp.com/ & https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

comment by yboris · 2025-03-31 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

…"Memory" column. Are you saying there is RAM use tucked away under different row than the app name? https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

comment by yboris · 2024-10-31 · in Claude for Desktop

…that shows you screenshots (that you can scrub through) from each video. https://videohubapp.com/ https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

comment by yboris · 2024-09-27 · in I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them

…but it worked out for me: https://videohubapp.com/ for pay-what-you-want-$5-minimum for my app, and https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App git-clone-and-build for the code. I currently sell about 60 copies per month (same average across…

comment by yboris · 2024-07-07 · in Show HN: A modern Jupyter client for macOS

…can scroll through; tons of filters and search options. https://videohubapp.com/ MIT open source: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

comment by yboris · 2024-03-26 · in Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?

…until I bumped the price to $5 / copy. Now sold over 5,000 copies - but it's also MIT open source: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

comment by yboris · 2023-07-10 · in Ask HN: How did you earn your first $100 and first $1k online?

…only for local consumption. Hope someone finds it useful. https://videohubapp.com/ MIT Open Source: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

comment by yboris · 2023-06-18 · in Jellyfin: Free software media system

I created Video Hub App which is MIT License https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App I also sell it for $5 and have sold just over 5,000 copies last month (5 years old app). Importantly, $3.50 of every purchase goes to a cost-effective…

comment by yboris · 2023-06-16 · in Generating Income from Open Source

…lets me do it. Plus I share the app online for free. Video Hub App - https://videohubapp.com/ & https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App I started it just for myself, but it ended up so good I spent several more years improving it as…

comment by yboris · 2023-04-28 · in Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

You are a superhero! I'll explore these options <3 https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

comment by yboris · 2023-03-01 · in FFmpeg 6.0

…does that FFmpeg couldn't do with a few extra pieces of exposed API? https://videohubapp.com/ - https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App/blob/772b25bbd4b41...

comment by yboris · 2023-02-28 · in FFmpeg 6.0

…people give to cost-effective charities (see GiveWell.org for info). It's also MIT open source: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

comment by yboris · 2023-01-26 · in Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

…like YouTube for videos on your computer. Browse, search, and organize your videos MIT Open Source: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

comment by yboris · 2023-01-22 · in Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

…Very minor by comparison to others, but I'm just starting out ;) https://videohubapp.com/ && https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App What I did that is most impactful is that I've been giving at least 10% of my income to cost-effective…

comment by yboris · 2022-11-18 · in Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?

This is the feature I'll be building this winter into my Video Hub App https://videohubapp.com/ && https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App I have a branch that detects faces and extracts vectors, it's just a matter of aggregating them…

comment by yboris · 2022-11-18 · in Show HN: Semantic Video Search

…$350 of that) with my Video Hub App - https://videohubapp.com/ - which is also open source - https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App I wrote about charityware a few years ago: https://medium.com/@whyboris/charityware-doing-good-with-pro..…

comment by yboris · 2022-11-17 · in Ask HN: What's a good business model for selling standalone software?

…per month for several years now. https://videohubapp.com/ - though I also have it open source: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

comment by yboris · 2022-11-16 · in Ask HN: Alternative ways to make money with coding and system skills?

…of various video browsers / launchers - perhaps others will find what I created to their taste: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App https://videohubapp.com/

comment by yboris · 2022-11-13 · in From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

…the frame you clicked on. It turns your phone into a "remote". Cheers: https://videohubapp.com/ & https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App & https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App-remote

comment by yboris · 2022-09-14 · in How a QR code works

…people search for "porn hub" as "video hub". https://videohubapp.com/ - and it's open source - https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

comment by yboris · 2022-07-26 · in Becoming a Full-Time Creator as a Software Engineer

…video). May be useful if you have lots of videos on your computer (or external hard drives / NAS). https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

comment by yboris · 2022-06-28 · in Universal Media Server. A DLNA, UPnP and HTTP(s) Media Server

…about $500 for over a year now (with almost $15,000 donated to charity). https://videohubapp.com/ & https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App (MIT open source)

comment by yboris · 2022-05-25 · in Tell HN: I made $1000 with my app and now making $500/mo

…like the software I created to browse your collection: Video Hub App https://videohubapp.com/ & https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App (MIT open source)

comment by yboris · 2022-05-17 · in Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content

…- browse, search, preview, and organize videos on Win, Mac, and Linux. https://videohubapp.com/ & https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

comment by yboris · 2022-05-12 · in Show HN: Automedia – a tool for managing bitrot and formats in media libraries

…over a year now! I even have a PR that shows that it works, but was waiting for FFmpeg to catch up. https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App/pull/702 My software extracts screenshots from videos and shows them in a nice browsable…

comment by yboris · 2022-04-27 · in FFmpeg now supports JPEG XL

…their products, so others can know the distribution of possibilites. https://videohubapp.com/en/ https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

comment by yboris · 2022-04-14 · in Why is selling software so weird?

…or some other nonsense people keep hurling as insults at Electron. https://videohubapp.com/en/ & https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App (MIT open source)

comment by yboris · 2022-04-08 · in Why Remotion is a native macOS app, not Electron

…charityware - $3.50 of each purchase goes to a cost-effective charity). https://videohubapp.com/en/ https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App - MIT open source :)

comment by yboris · 2022-03-24 · in Ask HN: Why aren't devs making desktop apps any more?

…recognition (I have a branch in PR that is 30% of the way finished with the feature already). https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App & https://videohubapp.com/en/

comment by yboris · 2022-02-01 · in Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

…more sales if I knew how to market my app better. https://videohubapp.com/en/ - MIT open source: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

comment by yboris · 2022-01-21 · in Ask HN: Anyone making a living building desktop applications?

…around 100 sales per month for over a year now. https://videohubapp.com/en/ Also open source MIT: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

comment by yboris · 2022-01-19 · in Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

…hard drives). Might come in handy for someone. https://videohubapp.com/en/ - MIT open source: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

comment by yboris · 2022-01-18 · in Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?

…(just look up some Electron API like "minimize window") and I was done. https://videohubapp.com/ & https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App As a single developer, I was able to get an app out in a few months and have been improving it for…

comment by yboris · 2022-01-05 · in Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust

…App - a browser / organizer for videos on your computer. https://videohubapp.com/ MIT open source: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

comment by yboris · 2021-12-31 · in Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?