Most devs check GitHub, Hacker News, DEV and Hugging Face out of habit. DEV·TV turns them into 10 live channels that play on their own, like TV. Glance, catch one story, get back to coding. Leave it on an office screen or a remote team's always-on tab and it becomes shared context: everyone sees what's rising, and anyone can point and ask "did you see this?" One HTML file: no backend, no login, no build step. Real source data, built-in reader, no AI summaries. Free and MIT-licensed.
What's great
it commits to the bit. static/scanlines, channel numbers, the whole retro TV frame, and it's not just cosmetic since the channels actually pull live data (caught a real HN headline mid-session, not a cached screenshot). one file, no signup, no account, works instantly. good for exactly what it's pitched as: something you leave running on a spare monitor for ambient awareness rather than something you sit and stare at.
What needs improvement
a per-channel refresh interval would help, GitHub trending and HN move at very different speeds and right now the whole set seems to update on the same clock.
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Thanks @galdayan means a lot, especially the "caught a real HN headline mid-session." That's the one thing I really wanted to get right.
Per-channel refresh is a valuable feedback as well. Right now everything runs on one clock, which was simplest to build but needs to be improved for HN vs CVE. Adding it to the list.
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@shouvik_palit makes sense, one shared clock is the right call for a v1. if it helps, you probably don't need a full per-channel scheduler yet, just a default interval plus an optional override per channel would cover HN vs CVE without much extra complexity. either way it's already doing what I actually wanted, which is rare for a dashboard toy.
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What a cool idea! To make it really addictive and more like TV, it would be cool to generate short 30-60 sec video clips of anything that you'd read. Like all of those AI papers, Github, and HN articles could be short videos. I'd have this playing in my background while working.
@john_joo2 Thanks John! .
Generated video is tempting, but I've been trying to keep DEV·TV to real source content, nothing AI-rewritten. Generating clips would also need a backend and real costs for every story.
Closest thing right now: the HN Video and AI Video channels play actual talks and demos that Hacker News upvoted. Do give those a try
According to what do you choose those resources?
@busmark_w_nika Hey Nika, mostly developer habits. I started with the tabs I kept opening myself (GitHub, Hacker News, DEV, Hugging Face), then added the stuff I was googling separately: framework releases, new papers, security vulnerabilities.
The other filter was technical. DEV·TV has no backend, so every source has to work straight from the browser with no API key. That ruled out a few I wanted, like Reddit, X and Product Hunt itself.
@shouvik_palit Aaa, I first thought, that PH should be applied there :)
@busmark_w_nika :) :) That was one of my first thoughts. It would've been fun to launch a TV here with a Product Hunt channel on it, but unfortunately the API needs a private token that can't sit in browser code. If DEV·TV ever gets a backend, it's first on the list.
This is an original tool, but not sure if it wants to be a gimmick or a real source of knowledge?
@dvstudio80 The TV look is the fun part, but the content is all real: GitHub repos, HN stories, papers, releases. Nothing is made up or summarized. So a fun interface for real sources, I guess.
Thank you to everyone who voted, commented, or just checked this out. #5 Product of the Day still feels a little unreal
The response here honestly surprised me, founders checked this out, voted, shared it, gave feedback, and helped make it happen .
A lot of the people who supported DEV·TV are founders building their own things. So instead of just adding another feature, I want to give some of that attention back.
📺 DEV·TV Community Spotlight
A new channel featuring things founders have built. You build something → I put it on developer TV.
Send me:
* Local AI projects
* Open-source projects
* Developer tools
* Interesting experiments
* Technical articles or tutorials
* New launches
* Weird or unusual things you've built
Selected projects will be added to the public spotlight.json used by DEV·TV, so please only submit information you're comfortable having publicly displayed.
The selected projects will be featured on the live DEV·TV site:
https://shouvik12.github.io/devtv/
What to send:
Project/Article: Name + URL
One-liner: What does it do?
About it: 2–3 sentences on what you built and why
Built by: Your name / GitHub / Bluesky handle
Tags: e.g. Ollama · Python · LLM · Open Source
Optional: repo / demo / video / screenshot
📧 devtv.developers@gmail.com - Subject: DEV·TV Spotlight
I'll handle the formatting. No payment, starting small, curating by hand.
If you've built something you're proud of, send it over. Your work. On developer TV. 📺
Seriously, thank you. This community made the launch what it was.
Update since launch day 📺
A few things have landed on DEV·TV since the launch:
- New Models (channel 11): the newest models added to OpenRouter's catalog, with context size and price per million tokens. "Newest" means newly added to OpenRouter, not necessarily when the lab announced it.
- Skins: three cabinets, Graphite (the default), Walnut and Cream. Tap the colour dot in the header to switch, and it remembers your pick.
- Spotlight submissions: built something? There's now a "Submit your project" button under the channel keys. It opens an email to me with your project ready to go, or you can write to devtv.developers@gmail.com directly.
I'd love to hear which skin you like best, and which channel you'd want next. Thanks for all the comments so far, I'm reading every one.
This is very cool. Excellent for my third screen while working in IT. I can gander over and check what is scrolling nicely as I'm doing my work. Nice flow to it. Full screen and channel transition fizz is excellent.
@frank_reyna_techie Thanks a lot for your feedback. This was the main inspiration behind the project: something you can glance at on a spare screen while you work, without breaking your flow. And I'm really really glad the static fizz landed :)