Nico

Honestly I wouldn’t say “small parts” anymore. At the beginning I still read code and brought in my own judgment (as I actually have experience with web development). Nowadays, I rarely steer the agents as they have gotten pretty good at interpreting and implementing my intent. It’s just a side-project anyways. When I use the app, I collect things that catch my eye and let the agents work on them later. At some point, I’ll test everything again myself and release updates when I think it’s in a usable state.

I do think it’s a little silly how people here imply “vibe-coded” definitely means it’s bad and sloppy tho. I wonder if they also stay on an older kernel version because it now contains AI code.

Yeah, I know, but sometimes I’m just not satisfied with the projects out there and would rather have my own where I can tweak every little detail. Another example is that I’m in the process of switching from Spotify to Navidrome right now but I haven’t found a good cross-platform FOSS client for it. I really liked Namida, but I don’t like their restrictive non-FOSS license and would add/remove/change some stuff. That’s why I started another music player app even tho there are even more of these ^^

Maybe it looks identical on the surface but seems like you haven’t actually compared it by using it or looking at the features list on the site. I wanted to move away from using YouTube in the browser but wasn’t satisfied with FreeTube as it missed a lot of power-user features I have previously used extensions and userscripts for. To one of my feature-requests (channel-specific playback speed) they just said it’s “too niche” (as they do with a lot of them) what brought me to starting the project.

Nope, it won’t. Seems like you just think this about every project the moment you notice it’s vibe-coded to me. Take a look at the history of the project. I started it in December 2025 and it has received new features and fixes ever since. I’m committed to supporting this in the long run because I heavily use it myself :)

Thanks, the extra features expanded quite a big since you wrote the comment :) Suggestions are also always welcome

Thanks for the feedback. Will look into releasing it as Flatpak soon. Tracked @ https://github.com/OpenTubeX/OpenTubeX/issues/185

I have set up a bot that automatically merges upstream code. I already released fixes earlier than FreeTube multiple times now. For example playlists that broke about a week ago are already fixed and released.