DEV·TV

DEV·TV is a retro television interface for following developer news. It takes the sources developers already check out of habit — GitHub, Hacker News, DEV, Hugging Face, plus Releases, AI Papers, Latest Papers, CVE, HN Video and AI Video — and turns them into 10 live channels that play on their own, like TV. It is made for developers and dev teams who want to glance at what is rising in their field, catch one story, and get back to coding instead of opening a dozen tabs. Everything runs on one always-on screen with an ON AIR indicator, a running clock, numbered channels and a built-in reader for the story currently playing. Most developers check the same sources every day as a habit: GitHub for rising repositories, Hacker News for discussion, DEV for posts, Hugging Face for models and demos, plus release notes, papers and security advisories. Those checks are fragmented across tabs and feeds, and they are easy to skip when you are deep in work — which means a team can miss a release, a vulnerability or a story that everyone else is talking about. DEV·TV frames this habitual checking as television: content plays on its own in a fixed, glanceable screen, so catching up takes seconds rather than a dedicated browsing session. The Product Hunt listing frames the value simply: glance, catch one story, get back to coding. The product is organised around 10 channels: GITHUB, HACKER NEWS, DEV, HUGGING FACE, RELEASES, AI PAPERS, LATEST PAPERS, CVE, HN VIDEO and AI VIDEO. Each channel is numbered from 01 to 10 and listed in the channel panel, where individual channels can be switched ON or OFF. Channels surface different kinds of items — for example, GitHub shows a RISING REPOSITORY with its star count and creation time, and the ticker at the bottom of the screen labels upcoming items by source, such as GH for GitHub, HN for Hacker News, DEV, HF for Hugging Face, REL for releases, NEW for new papers, CVE for advisories, VID for HN Video and AIV for AI Video. Because every channel is a different feed, the viewer can move between code, community, research and security without leaving the TV. Playback is deliberately simple. WATCH/STOP only plays or freezes the current channel, and channels never change on their own — the viewer stays in control of what is on screen. The channel lineup shows the current item under NOW, along with NEXT and LATER items, and a scrolling ticker repeats the upcoming queue. On the keyboard, the left and right arrow keys or the number keys change channel, while the space bar or the WATCH/STOP control plays or freezes the current channel; pressing escape closes a story. On touch devices the same actions map to taps: tap a channel to switch, tap a story to read, and use the gear icon for channel settings. The interface also shows a 1× speed indicator, a power control, a fullscreen button and an on-screen clock. When a story is playing, clicking it opens it inside DEV·TV using the built-in reader — a link marked "Open original source" is available for reading the item at its origin. This keeps the reading experience on the same screen rather than sending you off to another tab. The TV also produces commercial breaks: fake dev ads appear roughly every five minutes, labelled with the disclaimer "this is not a real advertisement". When a channel has nothing to show, the screen displays a NO SIGNAL state rather than an empty feed. A gear icon opens channel settings, and the channel panel lists each channel with its own ON switch alongside a commercial breaks control that notes the fake dev ads run about every 5 minutes. Together these details give the experience the rhythm of broadcast television without pretending to be a real broadcast. Under the hood, DEV·TV is deliberately minimal: one HTML file, with no backend, no login and no build step. It uses real source data and a built-in reader, and it explicitly does not generate AI summaries — the content you see is the source content itself. That approach means the product can be dropped onto any screen or hosted as a static page, and the listing notes it can be starred on GitHub and is MIT-licensed. The channel model is the core idea: instead of a dashboard of widgets or an infinite feed, the sources become television channels with a lineup, numbers and a play state, which makes the habit of checking developer sources feel like watching TV rather than working through a reading list. The practical benefit is a low-effort way to stay current. Because channels play on their own and the current item is always visible under NOW, a developer can look up, catch one story, and return to code without leaving their editor context for long. The Product Hunt description points to a second benefit for groups: leave DEV·TV on an office screen or on a remote team's always-on tab and it becomes shared context — everyone sees what is rising, and anyone can point and ask "did you see this?". That turns private feed checking into a common reference point, which is useful for releases, papers and CVEs where timing matters. Free, MIT-licensed access also means teams can adopt it without procurement or cost. Concrete uses follow from that design. An office can run DEV·TV fullscreen on a shared screen, letting the channels cycle through GitHub, Hacker News and other feeds so the room has a passive stream of what is happening. A remote team can keep it open in an always-on browser tab, giving distributed colleagues the same shared context and a reason to point at a story together. An individual developer can watch a single channel — for example the CVE channel for advisories, the RELEASES channel for new versions, or AI VIDEO and HN VIDEO for talks and clips — and freeze it with WATCH/STOP until they are done. And because there is a built-in reader, someone who spots an interesting story can read it inside the TV and then optionally open the original source. DEV·TV is aimed at developers, and more specifically at dev teams that want ambient awareness of the ecosystem: office teams with a spare screen, remote teams with a shared tab, and individuals who follow GitHub, Hacker News, DEV, Hugging Face, releases, papers and CVEs. It is tagged on Product Hunt under Open Source, TV, Developer Tools and GitHub. The technology footprint is intentionally tiny — one HTML file, no backend, no login and no build step — and the product is free and MIT-licensed, so there are no paid tiers or plan details to consider. Channels are configurable through channel settings, where each source can be switched on or off. DEV·TV's core proposition is simple: take the developer sources you already check out of habit and turn them into 10 live TV channels you can glance at. Real source data, a built-in reader, no AI summaries, no backend, no login, no build step — free and MIT-licensed. Whether it runs on a wall screen or a shared browser tab, it turns routine feed checking into something closer to watching television, and into shared context for a team.