<story><title>Open-TV: Ultra-fast, simple and powerful cross-platform IPTV app</title><url>https://github.com/Fredolx/open-tv</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fredol</author><text>Hey guys, I&amp;#x27;m the dev of Open TV. Someone from here sent me an email so I just made an account to give a bit more context about my project.&lt;p&gt;Open TV is a search-based IPTV player designed for desktop use. It puts to the fire many of the sins of UI&amp;#x2F;UX design of traditional IPTV apps to prioritize simplicity and speed. Many classic IPTV features like the EPG are absent on purpose just to keep that commitment.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been developing Open TV solo for the past 2 years. It used to be a very basic electron app that I made for my relatives so they would stop using proprietary, slow and almost malware-tier IPTV apps.&lt;p&gt;I shared it with others as a &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;s useful for me, maybe also for you&amp;quot;. I had absolutely no intention of making it bigger than a stupid simple m3u viewer (it didn&amp;#x27;t even have xtream support before, or even categories). But I received so much positive feedback from users that I decided to give it some more love. It&amp;#x27;s been on and off, and at some point I reached 0.9.8 and pretty much called it quits for a while. I wasn&amp;#x27;t paid to work on Open TV so it was very difficult to allocate even more time.&lt;p&gt;I decided to revisit the project 4 months ago. Over the past 3-4 months, I&amp;#x27;ve completely rewritten the app in Rust&amp;#x2F;Tauri so that I could finally add features requested by the community and to be able to publish it on Flathub&amp;#x2F;Microsoft Store.&lt;p&gt;One of the very first feature request of this project was to put it on flathub and I&amp;#x27;m really proud to finally deliver on that. I&amp;#x27;m a Debian user, so it feels like I&amp;#x27;m finally giving back to the open source community by making it my app so widely accessible on Linux.&lt;p&gt;If you like Open TV and its dedication to be simple, fast and bloat-free, please consider donating. I&amp;#x27;m still solo on this and doing it purely for the sake of my users (I don&amp;#x27;t really watch TV...), so any contribution is really appreciated.</text></comment>
<story><title>Open-TV: Ultra-fast, simple and powerful cross-platform IPTV app</title><url>https://github.com/Fredolx/open-tv</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sirfz</author><text>I have to say that IPTV apps across all platforms have a horrendous UX and are especially slow and clunky. I always felt that there&amp;#x27;s so much to improve in the space and I&amp;#x27;m happy to see this project, looks promising judging from the description (although I haven&amp;#x27;t been using IPTV for a while now and can&amp;#x27;t try this).</text></comment>