Hacker News: gzmihai

New comment by gzmihai in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

gzmihai — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 22:18:35 +0000

The idea behind Velty is to let you consume your YouTube videos mainly in chronological order, without being at the mercy of the YouTube algorithm.

Sorry, I don’t plan to add that feature.

New comment by gzmihai in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

gzmihai — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 11:47:55 +0000

I’ve been building Velty[1] over the past year as a tool to tame my ever-growing YouTube subscriptions. It’s a web app (PWA) that lets you organize your YouTube channels and videos into folders (with sub-folders), and view all the latest videos in one chronological feed with powerful filtering/sorting.

I built it because I was frustrated with how hard it was to manage a large number of channel subscriptions using YouTube’s default interface.

https://velty.app

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gzmihai — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 09:57:07 +0000

hi everyone,

I've been working on a web app (https://velty.app) that lets you organize your YouTube subscriptions and videos into folders and sub-folders. It helps you find what you want to watch more easily.

The idea came up when I found it hard to organize my growing list of YouTube subscriptions and finding videos easily. The YouTube playlists system is limited — it lacks hierarchy and search functionality. I wanted an app to organizing everything into folders and sub-folders to easily find videos by their duration or the channel they're from. Also, provide the same functionality on mobile and destkop.

I tried different methods like RSS readers, browser extensions, and bookmarks, but they all had drawbacks:

    - Browser extensions don't work on mobile.

    - With bookmarks, filtering and sorting are challenging.

    - RSS readers have limitations in organizing folders and sub-folders and lack filtering and sorting options such as duration, published date, and channel names.

So, I decided to build my own solution to deal with these issues.

I'm keen to hear your thoughts on the idea!

Show HN: Velty App –> Organize your YouTube subscriptions and videos

gzmihai — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 12:50:26 +0000

hi everyone,

I've been working on a web app (https://velty.app) that lets you organize your YouTube subscriptions and videos into folders and sub-folders. It helps you find what you want to watch more easily.

I tried different methods like RSS readers, browser extensions, and bookmarks, but they all had drawbacks:

    - Browser extensions don't work on mobile.

    - With bookmarks, filtering and sorting are challenging.

    - RSS readers have limitations in organizing folders and sub-folders and lack filtering and sorting options such as duration, published date, and channel names.

So, I decided to build my own solution to deal with these issues.

I'm keen to hear your thoughts on the idea!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39301341

Points: 1

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Ask HN: How should I impress 8th graders with web technology

gzmihai — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 00:45:50 +0000

Hello!

I'm a frontend develop for ~10 years, and I've been invited to a neighborhood school (8th graders) to present a one hour demo related to web technologies, mainly HTML, CSS, and JS.

To gain some context, I want to start with a brief explanation about basic stuff like what is a server, browser, how they interact and so on. Then explore a little bit the developer tools by modifying some pages in the browsers. For the final part, I want to edit with them a premade portfolio website so they can add their bio. It will be great if at the end they can say "I made a website".

The whole idea for this hour is to explain how web technologies work and what they can achieve with that.

I'd love to hear what other ideas you all might have to totally wow some teens or what experience you had in a similar situation.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20727441

Points: 7

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Chrome Extension to visually find common usability problems on a webpage

gzmihai — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 09:46:24 +0000

Article URL: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/usability-hike-find-usabi/ndlpokknholbnmpamepplidpkfnmplgf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19075050

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Ulmo – Improve Your Website's Usability

gzmihai — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 21:01:27 +0000

Article URL: https://getulmo.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17973280

Points: 1

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Show HN: Ulmo – Improve Your Website's Usability

gzmihai — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 17:10:56 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17970875

Points: 1

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Show HN: Daco – Make your webpage free from any bugs or errors for $25

gzmihai — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 11:11:12 +0000

Article URL: https://usedaco.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17773616

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Daco – Make your webpage free from any bugs

gzmihai — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 08:48:41 +0000

Article URL: https://usedaco.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17548268

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by gzmihai in "Show HN: Find usability problems on your website"

gzmihai — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 12:28:05 +0000

Ulmo is a sass tool for detecting user behaviors that create confusion, retention, or interest so you can improve your website's usability. Based on the behaviors detected, you can react in real-time with built-in actions (notifications, animations, polls) exactly when an issue happens.

The idea came up while visiting an e-commerce website. I was looking for a product which didn't have enough information or images on the presentation page. Unconsciously, I've got frustrated and started to rage click the next button on a carousel gallery. At that moment, I wanted to talk to someone from the e-commerce website to explain my thoughts. That didn't happen, but I realized what great context there was for the seller to get my feedback exactly when that issue happened.

I'm particularly interested in two areas (but appreciate all comments):

1. Is the value/proposition for this service simple to understand?

2. Would you be interested in this service? If not, what is missing from it?

Show HN: Find usability problems on your website

gzmihai — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 12:27:04 +0000

Article URL: https://getulmo.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17364452

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by gzmihai in "Inspiration UI – Find design inspiration from real live projects"

gzmihai — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 13:16:00 +0000

I guess it's a matter of taste here, but I'll take the feedback.

New comment by gzmihai in "Inspiration UI – Find design inspiration from real live projects"

gzmihai — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 13:12:29 +0000

I believe I have a combination from both.

P.S. thx for the ios issue. now it's fixed.

New comment by gzmihai in "Inspiration UI – Find design inspiration from real live projects"

gzmihai — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 07:19:51 +0000

I have a private chrome extension wich help me to grab the image & URL quickly for a particular pattern (I have plans to publish this extension). I curate the content from various design inspiration sites I visit daily.

I started this project as a solution to capture and organize web patterns that I like.

New comment by gzmihai in "Inspiration UI – Find design inspiration from real live projects"

gzmihai — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 07:09:18 +0000

There is a lot of great mobile inspiration out there. For the moment, my focus is on the web patterns.

New comment by gzmihai in "Inspiration UI – Find design inspiration from real live projects"

gzmihai — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 07:03:53 +0000

Yes, you are right. Those URLs should be prettier. Thx for your feedback

New comment by gzmihai in "Inspiration UI – Find design inspiration from real live projects"

gzmihai — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 07:00:47 +0000

You perfectly summarize why I started this project. Although Dribbble & Behance are great for inspiration, sometimes is hard to find specific patterns for your use case.

Inspiration UI – Find design inspiration from real live projects

gzmihai — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 22:54:46 +0000

Article URL: http://inspirationui.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11037939

Points: 110

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