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Hi, this is a very simple Youtube playing companion, to watch what you actually choose. I'm a father and a developer. My children needed this. So, I'm lucky I c

Hi, this is a very simple Youtube playing companion, to watch what you actually choose. I'm a father and a developer. My children needed this. So, I'm lucky I could build it. This became also my preferred Youtube watching experience. Please try?

chankstein38 3y ago
It says it plays "The best videos from the channel". How is that decided without algorithms? I'm not challenging you I'm just curious. This seems like a great thing, like the copy says "Now there's easily something to watch during dinner" I just don't understand if it's just most recent videos or what.
- devrimco 3y ago
  yeah. full disclosure, i go far back to get latest couple of hundreds of videos. (i may increase this in the future) and filter out the crap that is live, shorts, and all the restricted non embeddable ones. and i get all their stats. so i try to have around at least 100 "proper" ones of the latest videos. even for mrbeast for example it goes back till 2019. and believe me, old videos are not that attractive to "kids", i was going to say, but i found myself skipping them too. and present the user with an option to order by highest rated or highest viewed. this way i get latest videos of the channel. eg. ordered by the most viewed. and it plays continuously. shuffled in batches of 5.
  - krisoft 3y ago
    What you described is clearly an algorithm. But i assume what you mean by “no algorithm” is that you are not using a machine learning based recommendation engine.
    - devrimco 3y ago
      yeah definitely, mine is only a flat out get latest and sort. machine learning based recommendation engine is whole another level.
      - darthrupert 3y ago
        One could say "no advanced algorithms" without being too wordy about it. I suppose.
        devrimco 3y ago
        stealing this, thank you ;)
TedDoesntTalk 3y ago
I’ve been looking for this for 2 years for my 5 1/2 year old. Ultimately, I deleted the YouTube app and don’t allow the website anymore (content was only through Netflix and Disney+). But now we’ll give it another try. Thanks for writing this.
- devrimco 3y ago
  yes. the same here. and definitely why i created it. because there are wonderful videos and creators. and kids love them, of course. but the signal-to-noise on youtube and its recommendations boy they are scary.

chankstein38 3y ago

It says it plays "The best videos from the channel". How is that decided without algorithms? I'm not challenging you I'm just curious. This seems like a great thing, like the copy says "Now there's easily something to watch during dinner" I just don't understand if it's just most recent videos or what.

devrimco 3y ago
yeah. full disclosure, i go far back to get latest couple of hundreds of videos. (i may increase this in the future) and filter out the crap that is live, shorts, and all the restricted non embeddable ones. and i get all their stats. so i try to have around at least 100 "proper" ones of the latest videos. even for mrbeast for example it goes back till 2019. and believe me, old videos are not that attractive to "kids", i was going to say, but i found myself skipping them too. and present the user with an option to order by highest rated or highest viewed. this way i get latest videos of the channel. eg. ordered by the most viewed. and it plays continuously. shuffled in batches of 5.
- krisoft 3y ago
  What you described is clearly an algorithm. But i assume what you mean by “no algorithm” is that you are not using a machine learning based recommendation engine.
  - devrimco 3y ago
    yeah definitely, mine is only a flat out get latest and sort. machine learning based recommendation engine is whole another level.
    - darthrupert 3y ago
      One could say "no advanced algorithms" without being too wordy about it. I suppose.
      - devrimco 3y ago
        stealing this, thank you ;)

TedDoesntTalk 3y ago

I’ve been looking for this for 2 years for my 5 1/2 year old. Ultimately, I deleted the YouTube app and don’t allow the website anymore (content was only through Netflix and Disney+). But now we’ll give it another try. Thanks for writing this.

devrimco 3y ago
yes. the same here. and definitely why i created it. because there are wonderful videos and creators. and kids love them, of course. but the signal-to-noise on youtube and its recommendations boy they are scary.