This web app lets you ‘channel surf’ YouTube like a ’90s kid watching cable


Many of us remember the halcyon days of being a kid in the ‘90s, spending a weekend afternoon with remote control in hand and a seemingly endless well of stuff to watch on TV. Now you can relive the experience thanks to the appropriately named Channel Surfer web app. It’s essentially a YouTube discovery tool that surfaces interesting videos, but presented in a retro homage to the cable channel screen.

Channel Surfer is the work of developer Steven Irby. He has 40 channels on the app right now, mostly grouping content by theme. There are channels for typical cable fare like news and sports, but also music, movies and a number of more tailored tech subjects like AI, gaming, gadgets and space.

“I built Channel Surfer because I’m tired of the algorithms and indecision fatigue,” he told TechCrunch, which is where we discovered the app. “I miss channel surfing and not having to decide what to watch. I want to just sit and tune into what’s on and not think about what to watch next.”

It seems Irby isn’t alone, because he posted on X that the number of views he’s getting for Channel Surfer already broke 10,000 on its first day.



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