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Show HN: Erin – Open-source and self-hosted TikTok feed for your own videos

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113 points willmoss | 5 comments | 21 Oct 24 09:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.616s | source
1. KomoD ◴[21 Oct 24 12:42 UTC] No.41903552[source]▶
"vertical video feed" would be more accurate, it's nothing like tiktok other than it being a vertical video feed
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2. joelhaasnoot ◴[21 Oct 24 12:52 UTC] No.41903624[source]▶
Well, and there being feeds of videos?
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3. voidUpdate ◴[21 Oct 24 12:57 UTC] No.41903676[source]▶
Don't instagram, youtube and snapchat also have that design language too?
4. dtquad ◴[21 Oct 24 13:40 UTC] No.41904069[source]▶
>it's nothing like tiktok other than it being a vertical video feed

Agree. It's interesting that people in tech still don't get that what makes Tiktok so much better than Shorts/Reels is TikTok's semi-manually curated recommendations. They algorithmically detect user interest clusters and manually curate high quality videos for the the biggest clusters.

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5. spencerchubb ◴[21 Oct 24 15:45 UTC] No.41905381[source]▶
Do you really think it is semi manual? I guess I never considered the possibility, but I would be surprised. It seems like there are way too many niches and sub-niches, and the algorithm works rather quickly when news happens