Show HN: yt – Minimalist YouTube

I build this minimalist youtube client to make my YouTube experience a little bit less distracting. My idea was that you have a relatively simple user interface that you can configure to suite your needs. Feel free to add features to it that you want for yourself [0]

I build it in PHP with a similar bare bones approach as yt’s UI so it is relatively easy/cheap to host yourself.

One thing I like to do is block YouTube on my devices (except the embedded URL), disable the search on yt, and block the settings page. This way I can only watch videos that are embedded on other sites or if I know the video id.

yt was inspired by https://tube.quinzel.tech [1].

0: https://github.com/doodzik/yt

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16832438