A calmer way to watch. Made to reduce YouTube addiction β not feed it.
Chiku Tube is a distraction-free, AI-powered video discovery app. No endless infinite scroll. No autoplay traps. No notifications screaming for your attention. Just a clean player, hand-picked shelves, and a "Continue Watching" row so you can finish the one video you came for and actually close the tab.
YouTube is brilliant at one thing: keeping you watching. Recommendations, shorts, autoplay, banners, comments β every pixel is engineered to extend session time.
Chiku Tube flips the goal:
- Watch what you came for, leave when you're done.
- No suggested rabbit holes after every video.
- No comments, no shorts, no live notifications.
- AI is used to help you find one good thing, not to keep you scrolling.
- Your watch history lives in your browser β no cross-device profile building, no ad targeting.
If you've ever opened YouTube to play one song and looked up an hour later wondering where the time went, this is for you.
- π― AI-personalized "Discover" β suggests search phrases based on your taste, in your language. With a deterministic fallback so the feed is never empty.
βΆοΈ Continue Watching β pick up videos you didn't finish.- π₯ Trending Now β refreshed every 10 minutes.
- πΆ Mood chips β Lofi, Tech, Gaming, Cooking, Travel, Comedy, Learn, Podcasts, Documentary in one tap.
- β€οΈ Liked Picks β a curated row of fresh videos based on what you loved.
- π Watch Again β revisit recent finishes.
- π¬ Persistent custom player β never restarts when you navigate.
- Double-tap to seek Β±10s
- Keyboard shortcuts (space, β/β, m, f)
- Speed control 0.5Γβ2Γ
- Picture-in-picture style mini player when you leave /watch
- Background-friendly: MediaSession metadata in the OS notification
- Download button for offline keeping
- π‘οΈ Self-healing stream layer β broken/expired stream URLs are auto-retried once, then quietly hidden from every shelf.
- πΎ History-keyed cache β recommendations persist across reloads, navigation is instant.
- π Dark UI, soft motion, semantic design tokens.
- π± Mobile-first with a bottom tab bar.
- Framework: TanStack Start v1 (React 19 + Vite 7, SSR-ready)
- Routing: file-based, type-safe (
src/routes/) - State: Zustand with
localStoragepersistence - Styling: Tailwind CSS v4 + custom design tokens (
src/styles.css) - Deploy target: Cloudflare Workers (edge) β also runs on Vercel and any Node 18+ host.
# Install
bun install # or: npm install / pnpm install
# Run dev server (http://localhost:8080)
bun run dev
# Type-check + production build
bun run build
# Preview the build
bun run previewNo secrets are required β Chiku Tube has no backend database, no
auth, and no analytics. Watch history and likes live in localStorage.
wrangler.jsonc is preconfigured. Build then deploy:
bun run build
npx wrangler deployThe build outputs an SSR worker plus static assets. Make sure the
nodejs_compat flag is enabled (already set in wrangler.jsonc).
vercel.json targets the Vercel adapter. Connect the repo on
vercel.com, then:
bun run build:vercelVercel will run the same command on push.
bun run build
node .output/server/index.mjsAny Node-18+ host works (Fly.io, Railway, your own VPS, a Raspberry Pi on your home network).
FROM oven/bun:1 AS build
WORKDIR /app
COPY package.json bun.lockb ./
RUN bun install --frozen-lockfile
COPY . .
RUN bun run build
FROM node:20-alpine
WORKDIR /app
COPY --from=build /app/.output ./.output
EXPOSE 3000
CMD ["node", ".output/server/index.mjs"]- Watch history, likes, position memory β
localStorageonly. - **We Use Your ip address for showing content according to your language but we don't save it **
- No analytics, no trackers, no third-party scripts.
You can wipe everything in one click via your browser's site-data settings.
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