It lets you create TV channels from digital media such as YouTube, The Internet Archive, TikTok, Twitch, and Dailymotion. It does that by letting you schedule videos against a custom calendar system.

Since filling out even a month of content can be a lot of work, I built some things to make the process easier.

* Advanced scheduler to know when and how long content can be played at any given datetime

* Real time team collaboration

* Channel libraries to organize media

* "Blocks" - Create a dynamic schedule which generate hours of content that mimics real television scheduling. It even carries over your playback history between generations so that playlists continue from where they left off.

* A catalog to find media from official sources on YouTube

* Embeddable as an OBS browser source to restream your owned content

* Repeat content infinitely or temporarily to create 24/7 channels.

If all goes well I am hoping to re-release sometime this month.

Thanks again to Ben and the team at cursor for this lovely souvenir. Tab autocomplete is at the core of my Al coding, to say it saved me days of work is an under exaggeration. I had no idea this was a thing until they reached out to me so to hear the number I reached gave me a combination of laughter and shock.

If anyone has questions about how I use it in my workflow I would be happy to answer.

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I am excited to share the project I have been working on for the last nine months called React.tv.

The original problem I was attempting to solve is "Ethical React Content" on the internet. If you are confused, react content is when a content creator watches media and puts their image and commentary over the media being watched. The current solution to these reaction videos is good faith attribution, where the content creator puts a link to the video being watched in their description in hopes that the audience will click it. This is not ideal, and when done on a livestream with hundreds to thousands in the audience it can remove a large chunk of potential views.

React.tv solves this by allowing you to place your livestream side-by-side with the content being watched. It uses embeds which are synced for everyone watching, meaning that the audience views are funneled back to all the sources being watched.

After several iterations I noticed that a simple watch party system wasn't enough. Traditional watch parties get stale very quickly and force you to keep manually adding content. I wanted the ability for people to find content to react to but also maintain a level of passive consumption. That started with adding playlists from YouTube to the watch party, but those lists became gigantic and hard to navigate.

That's where the idea for user-curated, scheduled TV channels came from.

Create always on TV Channels of content from YouTube and Twitch, up to two weeks at a time. Sync existing YouTube playlists and assign them to time slots which carry over their playback history between days - just like TV channels do. Just like our watch parties, your always on TV channel can swap modes to a watch party with your reaction at any time.

Oh, and all the features you would expect from watch parties of the past are here too such as Requests, voting, and feature rich chat.

Future plans include React VODS where you can watch past reacts, and a streamer guard to avoid TOS infractions.

Thanks for checking it out.

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