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Video-Hub-App
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whyboris / Video-Hub-App
Video-Hub-App
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Video Hub App - https://videohubapp.com/ - Browse, search, and organize your videos (Win, Mac, Linux). I sell it for $5.00 but $3.50 goes to the cost-effective charity Against…
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97 sourcesYByboris·Sep 14, 2026
Porting over Video Hub App - my 8.5 year old app from Electron to Tauri
https://videohubapp.com/ - an application that lets you browse, search, organize, etc the videos you have on your computer, external hard drives, or network drives.
https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
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
Releasing 2.0.0 of my Simplest File Renamer - https://github.com/whyboris/Simplest-File-Renamer - Electron to Tauri 130mb to 3mb
Releasing 1.0.0 of My Off Remote - https://github.com/whyboris/my-off-remote - turn off your PC from phone / tablet over WiFi
In Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)Video Hub App - 8th year 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) - https://github.com/whyboris/Simplest-File-Renamer
Simple Image Browser - browse your images in style (on PC, Win, Linux, and tablet /phone) https://github.com/whyboris/Simple-Image-Browser
In Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)My 8-year-old video browser software Video Hub App - shows thumbnails from video as you hover with your mouse. Working on adding minor improvements before I finally get to the (optional) facial recognition "search by face similarity" feature.
https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
https://videohubapp.com/
In Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)I had someone steal my MIT open source software (that I sell for $5) and they are selling it for $11 or more. My software is 8+ years old; they are lying to the customers that they 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/
In Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its ownGot delayed on my 8th anniversary release of Video Hub App - hoping to get it out in March / April. I have some bug fixes and new features in my app for browsing and organizing video files across local and network drives.
https://videohubapp.com/ & https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
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/
In Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tellNot OP, but it looks like the wording of their downloads page (https://videohubapp.com/en/download/) is slightly confusing:
- Clicking “Demo” (for macOS) points to the 3.2.0 ARM version
- Clicking “Intel Mac” points 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 about the different versions and OS targets. Also, I think the visual hierarchy of the two respective buttons is too subtle.
In Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tellOccasionally $500/month, but more reliably $300/month in sales of my Video Hub App - lets users browse, search, tag, and organize videos on local / network drives. Aiming to have an 8th anniversary release February 2026.
$5 per copy (Windows, Max, Linux; keep forever) https://videohubapp.com/
MIT open source (build your own copy) https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
In Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell8th anniversary release of my app: Video Hub App - browse and organize your local video collection in style.
https://videohubapp.com/ & https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App (MIT open source)
In Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)Next release of my app (8 years since initial release) - adding minor features and minor bugfixes.
Video Hub App - browse your local video files with a beautiful interface (and scrub-able thumbnails to see multiple screenshots)
$5 for anyone https://videohubapp.com
Free for anyone https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
In Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)Trying to get a new release of Video Hub App - my 7+ years passion project to browse videos from local storage in 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/
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...
In Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video managementHumbly sharing my own project: Video Hub App which lets you browse your videos in an elegant infinite scroll gallery with various ways of searching, filtering, and tagging. Only local - nothing goes online with my app.
https://videohubapp.com/ and it's open source: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
In Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video managementAiming 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 software might be great for you :)
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