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Noooo! I was working on the exact same web app inspired by the same article seen here, you just beat me to the punch (Issue: I ended up overengineering the UI, trying to make a css-only simpsons-style TV around the iframe, the rest is basically the same as this app). Good Job :)



As the great Nas has rapped:

    No idea's original, there's nothing new under the sun
    It's never what you do, but how it's done


Ecclesiastes 1:9

    What has been will be again,
    what has been done will be done again;
    there is nothing new under the sun.


Pretty sure Nas was first though. I can't even find Ecclesiastes on Tidal.


Whoever said it first was lying.


the joke lands a lot better in the original Cylon.


Score:5, Funny


Here's to hoping we get the Premier album for Christmas!


In case you need inspiration, I've had this site bookmarked for many years. I don't know anything about the Web design, but it has the appearance you describe. https://www.myretrotvs.com/


Finish and post it please, I still want the Simpsons style TV!!


there's room on the internet for multiple sites, finishing it is nice


Theres nothing wrong with more choice. Please post a link!


To be fair it's all just astronaut.io with a different scope


We should be collaborating, open sourcing the scraping code, and sharing the scraped datasets IMO.

I was working on a similar idea a couple of years ago but got hung up on the scraping step after realising google api restrictions were too onerous.

I was trying to come up with a way that would have the videos scraped by the user and then randomised, entirely client side.




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