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Show HN: I Built a Site That Curates Weird YouTube Rabbit Holes
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I built Yourabbit.com -- a site that curates hand-picked YouTube
rabbit holes grouped by themes like quirky psychology, obscure
tech, weird facts, and binge-worthy oddities. It's not driven by
the YouTube algorithm -- every collection is themed and curated
manually (for now), with a backend I'm automating to fetch and
organize new rabbit holes daily. Built as a hybrid Astro + Next.js
project, optimized for static generation and speed. I'm also
pairing videos with custom summaries and commentary (using AI), and
would love feedback from the HN crowd on: Content model (too wide?
not specific enough?) Scaling ideas or features worth adding
Whether it's fun enough to keep people coming back Open to any
critique or ideas. Thanks!
Author : bas_sen
Score : 21 points
Date : 2025-06-20 14:35 UTC (8 hours ago)
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| nancyminusone wrote:
| Don't mean to be rude, but your deep dives could be deeper. I
| clicked on 'How GPS works' expecting to see a certain Scott
| Manley video [0] there. Instead, it's 10 shorts I'd put firmly at
| the 'like n subscribe' end of the scale. Think I'll stick to my
| own curated list of creators for now.
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| [0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=qJ7ZAUjsycY
| bas_sen wrote:
| Totally fair and not rude at all. I appreciate the honest
| feedback.
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| Right now, I'm still tuning the backend and experimenting with
| different types of videos. I definitely want to strike a better
| balance between fun/short-form content and deeper, high-quality
| creators like Scott Manley.
|
| Would love to know what you look for in a great rabbit hole --
| I'm collecting that feedback to improve the next batch.
| 1bpp wrote:
| When I think of a 'rabbit hole' it's almost always a series
| of related, high quality long-form & informative content.
| xhkkffbf wrote:
| I encourage you to keep going. Regular TV seems lame to me. A
| curated selection of YouTube videos is just the ticket. I often
| find myself browsing it instead of trying to watch some official
| streaming service.
| bas_sen wrote:
| That means a lot, thanks! That's exactly what I hoped for:
| making YouTube feel less like an endless scroll and more like
| flipping open a good magazine or playlist. I'll keep adding new
| rabbit holes every day and always open to suggestions for
| themes you'd love to see!
| epiccoleman wrote:
| I really like the idea in principle - the site looks nice too.
| But overall I can't help but feel like this is something I just
| wouldn't use.
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| There is a bit too much pop culture and "fluff" looking content
| at a first glance. That might be fine as far as "weird YouTube
| rabbit holes" goes, but I guess what I was hoping to find might
| be a little more esoteric and not so much "oh, some celebrity
| I've never heard of did covers on YouTube."
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| The amount of content here also makes me a bit skeptical, because
| a proper deep dive into a rabbit hole requires a bit of curation.
|
| Here's a free idea for you: I bet a Substack page where you put
| together one "weird deep dive" per week could do really well. It
| would be fun to see "ah, what did he get into this week" and then
| have an easy way to queue up the videos for an hour or two of
| chilling on the couch. It would feel a little more deliberate.
| Like you picked some random topic and started absorbing it, and
| then return to the community with a few videos that kind of
| "overview" the thing.
|
| I say Substack for illustrative purposes here - I'm not
| suggesting you switch to Substack - but rather that maybe your
| model needs to be a little more _curated_. Build a reputation
| that this is a fun place to go for a random Sunday morning
| Youtube binge, that every "rabbit hole" on the site will be
| interesting.
|
| Idk, just my thoughts.
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