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by leeskye 4462 days ago
It is weird to see comments from fellow YT API hackers. Great to see y'all on here.
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Here is something I hacked together with some fellow HN lurkers, in case the YT API stuff tickles your fancy: youstars.herokuapp.com/#/michellephan (using Michelle Phan's channel just as an example since it looks good).

Doesn't do anything too complex with the API, mostly just using the custom YT player. I checked out your user profile and your company. Great to see people doing stuff with YT analytics. It's something I've worked a lot with myself.

That looks great! Have you considered releasing it to the wild? Are the channels on the right MichelePhan's featured/favorited channels?
Thanks - glad you liked it. We've considered releasing it into the wild. Mostly it was just a fun hack project. Maybe we will do a blog post or something and show people in a bigger scale. The channels on the right are related to the Michelle Phan channel. One of the back end devs cooked up a channel matching feature. Actually if you click the left menu for suggestions (and you are oauthed), he wrote several selection metrics based on your account that will make other discovery suggestions. It's actually a really neat feature.