Video Hub App Reviews and Details

Questions & Answers

1. Which are the primary technologies used for building Video Hub App?

   Electron, Angular, and FFmpeg

Is Video Hub App good?

Social recommendations and mentions

• Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own

  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/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

  Occasionally $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. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

  8th 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). - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 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. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 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/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution

  Humbly 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. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

  Aiming to have a small-feature release of my Video Hub App this summer: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App If you have videos you want to browse, preview, search, tag, sort, etc on your computer, my software might be great for you :). - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2025)

  Writing a science fiction book this year - after a year of planning (while working on other projects). Also hoping to find some time to add a feature or two to my Video Hub App https://videohubapp.com/ & https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Show HN: A modern Jupyter client for macOS

  I hope you consider an open source model: code available freely on GitHub & app available for purchase on your website. I was scared about doing it this way, but it worked out for me: https://videohubapp.com/ for pay-what-you-want-$5-minimum for my app, and https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App git-clone-and-build for the code. I currently sell about 60... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Ask HN: How did you earn your first $100 and first $1k online?

  First $100: Thirty copies sold of Video Hub App First $1,000: Three hundred copies sold of my Video Hub App https://videohubapp.com/ Though I do donate $3.50 of every sale to a cost-effective charity so in theory I made no money for a while until I bumped the price to $5 / copy. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

  Semi-on-topic: I created Video Hub App that is like YouTube for local files: shows you a gallery with scrub-able (preview on hover) thumbnails. But does not work streaming videos to TV / tablet - only for local consumption. Hope someone finds it useful. https://videohubapp.com/ MIT Open Source: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Python GUIs

  "The problem" might be that people in this thread and others get frustrated because others have different goals than them. Of course Electron is overkill for a single-button application. But Visual Basic is absolutely going to be a headache if you want a custom GUI. Pick the tool that's right for the job! I build this with Electron: https://videohubapp.com/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• I've been data hoarding for 25 years. I have a bajillion hobbies. It's hard to stay organized.

  I created Video Hub App: https://videohubapp.com/ - it shows screenshots from videos as you scrub/hover across the thumbnail. Source: about 3 years ago

• FFmpeg 6.0

  I've been so frustrated that FFprobe functionality is not part of FFmpeg. My app extracts screenshots from videos to create a beautiful gallery of videos. But even though I include FFmpeg already, I need a 50mb FFprobe executable to be bundled with my app just so that I can determine the width, height, duration, and fps of a video file! What is it that FFprobe does that FFmpeg couldn't do with a few extra pieces... - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

• Those making $500/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

  Created Video Hub App (that will be 5 years old next month). I sell it for $5 and $3.50 of each purchase goes to the cost-effective charity Against Malaria Foundation (See GiveWell.org for details). It was averaging around 100 purchases per month, though it's lower over the last year as I've not had time to release new updates (moving to another state is challenging).... - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've ever built?

  Built Video Hub App that almost 5,000 people have purchased. I was a math teacher, became a web dev 6 years ago, built this 5 years ago. Most proceeds go to charity. Very minor by comparison to others, but I'm just starting out ;) https://videohubapp.com/ && https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App What I did that is most impactful is that I've been giving at least 10% of my income to... - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• Ask HN: What's a good business model for selling standalone software

  My personal model for my commercial software: charityware - require a payment but made most proceeds go to my favorite (cost-effective) charity. I'm getting about 100 purchases ($500/month, donating $350 of that) with my Video Hub App - https://videohubapp.com/ - which is also open source - https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App I wrote about charityware a few years ago:... - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• Ask HN: Alternative ways to make money with coding and system skills?

  I have mild success at $500/month by selling my $5 Video Hub App (though I donate $3.50 of every purchase to a cost-effective charity). This is averaging 100 sales per month for several years now. https://videohubapp.com/ - though I also have it open source: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App. - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

  An open-source (and charityware) software I wrote: Video Hub App - shows screenshots from inside each video as you scroll across the thumbnail (scrub). I didn't like the interface of various video browsers / launchers - perhaps others will find what I created to their taste: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App https://videohubapp.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• How do u guys organize porn.

  Try Video Hub App - https://videohubapp.com/ - shows screenshots from within the video as you hover over it. Source: over 3 years ago

• Ever wondered how a QR code works?

  I ended up using a QR code in my (Electron) app: the app runs a server, and you take a photo of the QR code on your phone to open the localhost (accessible only over WiFi). The app lets you browse videos you have on your computer through your phone, and when you click on the video image, the video plays on your computer from the frame you clicked on. It turns your phone into a "remote". Cheers:... - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago