DEV·TV is a browser-based, TV-style app for developer content, and it's built to be easy to run.
🛠️ The whole thing is a single index.html file hosted on GitHub Pages, with no backend, no build step, and no database.
🚀 Anyone can open the page and start watching, and the source is public under Apache-2.0. 📖
One of its channels is Spotlight. 🌟 It rotates featured developer projects on screen, so the people who built those projects get seen by everyone who tunes in.
👀 Right now the rotation includes CiCrew and Astratide, an astrology visualizer built by a developer who sent it in.
🔮 Astratide is a good example of what the channel is for: a small project, built by one person, that someone else can see, click on, and try for themselves. ✨
That's the part I most want to grow. Spotlight takes submissions in two forms:
- 🖥️ A live project you've hosted somewhere, such as a tool, a visualization, or a small experiment.
- 📦 A GitHub repo with a clear README, even if it doesn't have a hosted demo yet.
If you've built something you're proud of, send it in and I'll look at it for the rotation. 🎬 Submissions are reviewed by hand, so a short description of what the project does and who it's for helps a lot. 🙌
You can try DEV·TV at http://shouvik12.github.io/devtv,
and the source is on GitHub if you want to read through it or contribute. 💻
Top comments (2)
Hay lắm ý tưởng "kênh TV" cho dev — thay vì cuộn feed vô tận thì ngồi "xem" theo lịch trình, cảm giác gần như ngồi code review cùng team hơn là consume content. Phần "built to be easy to run" cũng quan trọng: nếu self-host nhẹ, team có thể fork để làm internal demo channel, chiếu sprint review hoặc showcase side project mà không cần setup phức tạp. Tò mò phần curation: có cơ chế vote/community signal để lọc noise không, hay hoàn toàn do maintainer pick? (site: labagent .tech)
Hi @baumgaerben
Thanks! “Closer to a code review with your team than consuming content” is exactly the feel I was going for.
On curation: right now it’s maintainer-picked. Developers submit their projects, and the DEV·TV team reviews them and adds them to the Spotlight rotation. With a small rotation, that keeps the noise out without needing a voting system. We may look at voting eventually, but we’re just starting out, and we want every project, small or big, to get a fair shot.
On forking for internal demo channels: that use case works today. DEV·TV is a single index.html on GitHub Pages under Apache-2.0, so a team can fork it, swap in their own slides, and run a sprint-review or side-project channel with no backend at all. v3 might introduce a backend, but up through v2 it’s all lightweight frontend.