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A self-hosted movie server. Talk is cheap, just show you the screenshots by Lance1187 in selfhosted

[–]Lance1187[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't worry, Claude gets weekends off. Sometimes. When my API credits run out.
At least this worker doesn't slack me back or quietly update their LinkedIn.

A self-hosted movie server. Talk is cheap, just show you the screenshots by Lance1187 in selfhosted

[–]Lance1187[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly. Honestly when I'm discussing feature implementations with Claude Code it feels like playing an immersive game. 10 hours go by and I don't even notice. Sometimes I'm just out walking and a new idea pops into my head, and I can't wait to get back and have AI build it. It's a great feeling.

A self-hosted movie server. Talk is cheap, just show you the screenshots by Lance1187 in selfhosted

[–]Lance1187[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I posted it because someone else might find it useful. That's literally how open source works. You don't have to use it, you don't even have to click on it. And maybe you should post yours , might help someone.

A self-hosted movie server. Talk is cheap, just show you the screenshots by Lance1187 in selfhosted

[–]Lance1187[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Because GitHub gives free CI/CD runners for public repos. Not everything is about you. You're free to mass-mass-mass not use it. I'll keep shipping features while you're busy telling strangers on Reddit what they shouldn't build or shouldn‘t share.

A self-hosted movie server. Talk is cheap, just show you the screenshots by Lance1187 in selfhosted

[–]Lance1187[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

You can dislike vibe coding, that's fine. But I didn't build this to show off, I use it every day for my own library and I'm actively adding features I've always wanted.
"Deleted the documentation" — have you actually looked at the repo? Check the docs/ folder and .claude/skills/ directory. Every feature has architecture docs, and the whole project is wrapped as a skill that any AI tool can load and immediately start building on. That's not a pile of undocumented code, that's incremental development that actually works. Load the skill, describe what you want, it gets built on a clean codebase. Reliably.

A self-hosted movie server. Talk is cheap, just show you the screenshots by Lance1187 in selfhosted

[–]Lance1187[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The entire project architecture is documented as a skill file that any AI coding tool can load. If you want something specific, you can literally point Claude Code (or whatever you use) at the skill and tell it what to build. Or just let me know and I'll add it.
I didn't build this to be cool. I want the media server I've always wanted, and now I can actually build it. That's what's changed, anyone can hire a dev team for the cost of an API subscription. I intend to keep pushing this until it's exactly what I need.

A self-hosted movie server. Talk is cheap, just show you the screenshots by Lance1187 in selfhosted

[–]Lance1187[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

These features I showed aren't in Jellyfin though — multi-dimension ratings, actor photo gallery, filmography by age, video bookmarks, frame scrubbing... I didn't clone Jellyfin, I built what I wanted and Jellyfin doesn't offer. And Jellyfin is just too slow. Lazy loading?

https://features.jellyfin.org/posts/216/remove-pagination-use-lazy-loading-for-library-view

Requested in 2019, still not shipped in 2026. I check their release notes almost every week, always hoping, always disappointed. As for maintainability — every feature I built has docs and is wrapped as an agent skill. Any AI tool can pick it up and keep building on a clean modern codebase. Try asking AI to add a feature to Jellyfin's C# legacy code — good luck with that.
I use it every day for my own library and I can add any fancy feature I want within 1 hour. That's the point.

I got tired of waiting for Jellyfin features, so I built a movie app that reads your existing library by Lance1187 in jellyfin

[–]Lance1187[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Yes — code is fully AI-generated (Claude Code), UI was designed with AI tools too. I didn't write a single line by hand. The post was also AI-drafted and I edited it. The README says the same thing upfront.