Theme · Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026
Entertainment, music and news consumption
Apps for discovering and tracking music, movies, TV, podcasts, radio, livestreams and curated news digests.
New projects this week
105
Last 12 weeks
897
Share of all new projects
3.6%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
+3%
Share of new projects, per week
Groups in this theme
| Group | This week | 12 wks | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Local music and radio players | 20 | 105 | ▲ +68% |
| Online video downloaders and players | 18 | 130 | -6% |
| Music discovery and sharing apps | 12 | 143 | +3% |
| TV, movie and anime trackers | 12 | 103 | +10% |
| Movie & TV recommendation trackers | 11 | 120 | -4% |
| AI news aggregators and digests | 10 | 106 | ▼ -32% |
| Livestream viewing and streamer tools | 7 | 71 | ▲ +33% |
| Internet radio players | 6 | 37 | ▼ -24% |
| Podcast apps and AI tools | 5 | 39 | ▼ -23% |
| AI and tech news digests | 4 | 43 | +2% |
Stack
Share of the 259 projects in this theme that stated their stack, last 12 weeks.
- Vercel 12%
- Python 10%
- Cloudflare 8%
- Next.js 8%
- React 8%
- GitHub Pages 7%
- PostgreSQL 6%
- TypeScript 6%
AI tools
Same projects.
Most discussed this week
- Sonik Music — Streams music from artists and lets listeners support them with virtual gifts, purchases and merchandise.“I got frustrated with music streaming, so I spent 1+ year building my own platform. Sonik Music is now a working web + iOS product.”
- Iris Briefings — Monitors news and sources around a topic, filters for new information, and delivers personalized weekly briefings and podcasts.“I am stuck and will take any advice or reccomendations I can get”
- Reeler — Recommends three movies or series based on a few titles the user loves, each with a short story pitch.“I built an AI movie recommender that you can try in 30 seconds, no account. Would love brutal feedback”
- RTFM Player — Plays and organizes local audio files on macOS across multiple libraries, with bit-perfect playback and metadata editing.“RTFM Player, a music player and file librarian for audiophiles with support for multiple libraries and bit-perfect playback”
- Melodex — Plays a user's local music collection and lets them steer what plays next, with visual album browsing and rediscovery of forgotten tracks.“I got tired of Shuffle, so I built a music player that lets you steer what comes next”
- NullPlayer — Plays media in a macOS music player that loads Winamp and Windows Media Player skins.“[OS] Free NullPlayer app now supports ALL Winamp (2.x, ClassicPro, 5) & ALL Windows Media Player (7, 7.1, XP (8), 9, 10, 11 and 12) Skins. NullPlayer is a clean room effort and the only media player with universal skin support. Come for the skins and stay for the deep media ecosystem integrations.”
- Tilly Farm — Lets a remote player control Stardew Valley through a bridge so the game can be live-streamed.“I built a bridge that allows Jev to play Stardew Valley”
- ArcTV — Lets users browse movies and TV shows by genre, view details and trailers, and keep a watchlist.“I built ArcTV, would love some feedback on the design and browsing experience”
- ShelfDrop — Plays user-owned audiobook files on iPhone and transfers them from a PC over local Wi-Fi.“I built a tiny iPhone audiobook app because getting my own M4B/MP3 files from PC to Apple Books was painful”
- tsuzuki — Shows which legal streaming platforms carry a given anime in a chosen region, with a release calendar and filler episode lists.“I built a free site to find where to legally watch any anime in your country (no ads, no account)”
Latest
- Reliving my youth on a CRT… — Streams a real-time 90s-style TV schedule to a CRT-style screen, with timed shows, movies and ad breaks.“Reliving my youth on a CRT screen”
- vods.space extension — Finds all the rounds of a Valorant Champions Tour game being watched on YouTube.“made a browser extension that finds all the rounds of the vct game you're watching on yt”
- BLADE — Downloads a public YouTube playlist as MP3 audio or video and packages the finished files into a ZIP.“I built a free, open-source YouTube playlist downloader with a clean web UI”
- Wire — Delivers a daily digest of tech news with a catch-up view of new stories, swipeable story cards, and offline reading.“I made a tech newsstand app because I was tired of doomscrolling 10 sites to keep up”
- OfflineYT — Downloads YouTube videos from selected channels for offline, ad-free viewing.“OfflineYT”
- bestfilmsof — Ranks each year's films by a blended 0-100 score from audience, critic, Academy and box office data.“I wanted to watch the best film of every year since I was born, so I built a site that ranks them”
- Playdeck — Controls Spotify playback from a dedicated physical device with play, pause, skip, like, and volume knob, showing album art on a color screen.“Build Playdeck to hyperfocus: play, pause, skip, like, and a volume knob, with album art on a color screen. Plugs in via USB-C, joins your WiFi, and works with Spotify”
- Clickwill — Manages music directly on an iPod's internal library, letting users add CD rips and edit tracks and album art without iTunes or Apple Music.“I Made Clickwill - a iPod library manager”
- SNAG — Downloads videos from sites like YouTube, TikTok and X at chosen quality and extracts audio as MP3.“I made SNAG, a free video downloader for Android and Windows”
- Feedback needed — Lets users turn a virtual knob to browse music across different decades.“Feedback needed - I built a knob you turn to travel through decades of music , A Music time machine.”
- Sonik Music — Streams music from artists and lets listeners support them with virtual gifts, purchases and merchandise.“I got frustrated with music streaming, so I spent 1+ year building my own platform. Sonik Music is now a working web + iOS product.”
- ShelfDrop — Plays user-owned audiobook files on iPhone and transfers them from a PC over local Wi-Fi.“I built a tiny iPhone audiobook app because getting my own M4B/MP3 files from PC to Apple Books was painful”
- Read60 — Condenses news stories from multiple sources into 60-word cards that link to the original article.“I built a news app that gives you every story in 60 words”
- Epistemic Tracker — Extracts factual claims from imported media text and lets users swipe through them to record their stance and certainty, then shows stats on their resulting worldview.“Gauging Interest: Epistemology Tracker/Worldview Mapper”
- AnyAssetBot — Downloads stock assets from pasted links and delivers the files into a Telegram chat.“I built a Telegram bot that delivers premium stock assets in seconds: paste a link, get the file”