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.

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.

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 ^^

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.