Opportunities › Feature-rich YouTube client for power users › Proposed app
Plainview
A calm, customizable way to watch YouTube without patching anything
- Score
- 34
- confidence 37
- Evidence
- 3
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 3
- named in sources
- First version
- 30 d
- estimate
- Type
- Mobile app
- PWA: installs on iPhone and Android
- Market since
- 2018
- Established market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Mobile app: Viewers watch videos on phones and tablets in extended leisure sessions; they adjust feed rules occasionally but spend most time consuming content in casual viewing. Sample screens on a phone, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
Subscriptions
23 new
- Shorts hidden41 today
- Suggestions hiddenOn
- SortNewest first
- WatchedDimmed
- Channels87
About this appAI proposal
Plainview is a web app that gives you a quieter, more controllable front end for the YouTube you already use. You choose what shows up: hide Shorts, recommendations, comment sections and other clutter, and keep the subscriptions and playlists you care about.
It is built for power users and privacy-conscious viewers who now patch the official app to get this control. Plainview installs from the browser as an app. Nothing on your phone is modified, and sign-in is optional, so you decide how much of your account it ever touches.
Every setting is a rule you can see, edit, export and share. The aim is to offer the control that patched apps give, without asking you to modify software.
- Tagline
- Watch what you chose. Nothing else.
- Voice
- CalmDirectTransparent
- Why this name
- Plain and view: a plain view of videos, with the clutter removed. Two common words joined into one easy name, pronounceable in any language. A trademark check is still needed.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
Rule-based feed
Hide Shorts, suggested videos, live streams or whole channels with simple rules. Rules are visible and editable, so you know why something is gone.
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Optional sign-in
Use it logged out with a local subscription list you import, or sign in only when you want your own library. Your choice, any time.
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Watch page layout control
Switch parts of the watch page on or off: comments, related videos, end cards, descriptions. Save layouts per device.
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Playback preferences
Set default speed, captions and quality per channel, and resume each video where you stopped.
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Brand identityAI proposal
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Palette
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Typography
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Plainview
PricingAI proposal
The material gives no competitor prices, so these tiers are a starting point to test, not based on any YouTube Premium price. The one-time option follows the one-time purchase idea in the opportunity.
Free
Free
- Feed rules and hiding Shorts
- Local subscription list
- Up to 3 saved presets
Plus
$3 a month
- Unlimited rules and presets
- Per-channel playback settings
- Encrypted cloud sync
- Export and import everything
Lifetime
$59 once
- Everything in Plus
- All future customization options
Would you pay Plus · $3 a month?
Your answer tells PWAS which prices people accept. It changes no score.
No answers yet.
What it could be worthEstimate
What a software business making this much sells for today, from real deals. Pick a monthly revenue.
If it makes
Worth about
$194,000
Sale range $132,000 to $263,000
$120,000 a year in revenue
From 87 software businesses listed and sold on Empire Flippers in the last year, revenue vetted by the broker: they sell for about 19× their monthly revenue, most between 13× and 26×.
Measured on profit, the middle deal is 32× monthly net profit: about 2.7 years of profit.
An estimate, not an offer or financial advice. A real price depends on profit, growth, churn, how much of the work is the owner's, and the buyer.
How it would growAI proposal
How the product would reach new customers through its own use, and how the first ones would be found. A plan to test, not a result.
- Built-in loop
- Shared outputs. Users publish rule presets such as 'Quiet Mode' as links. A link opens a preview page showing what the preset hides, with an import button that installs the app.
- Do they become customers?
- People opening a link share the same frustration, so they could become paying users. We would need to test the share of preview visitors who install and then subscribe.
- First customers
- Privacy-minded Android users who currently run patched YouTube apps and talk about them in developer and tech forums.
- Where to reach them
- Hacker News and Reddit: Post a Show HN and answer threads about patched apps and feed clutter, with a free preset to try.
- Privacy and open-source forums: Publish a clear data policy and a preset library, and ask for feedback on rules.
- First milestone
- Fifty installs from preset links and ten paying subscribers within eight weeks of launch.
Why people already pay for this
- Public claimUsers find the official YouTube app bloated and difficult to use compared to alternatives
- Public claimYouTube Premium lacks features that users want and that third-party tools offer
- Public claimUsers actively work around the official app due to concerns about account security and control
Tech stack
Every proposal builds on the same PWA base, installable from the browser on any phone or computer. Dashed boxes are what this app adds.
- AppNext.js and TypeScript
- PWAManifest and service worker
- UITailwind CSS
- Data and authSupabase Postgres
- PaymentsStripe
- EmailResend
- HostingVercel
- This app · Video playbackOfficial embedded player APIPlays videos through the platform's own supported player instead of modified apps or scraped streams.
- This app · Video metadataOfficial data API with quota cachingFeeds, channel lists and search need metadata; a server cache keeps within usage quotas.
RisksAI inference
- PlatformThe platform's terms and API policies may restrict hiding elements, altering the player, or building a rival front end. The product could be limited or blocked, so terms must be reviewed with counsel before building.
- TechnicalAPI quotas limit feeds for many users. Without sign-in, building a subscription feed needs cached public data, and may be slow or incomplete.
- CommercialUsers of patched apps often expect free tools with ad removal. Plainview cannot remove ads in an embedded player, so paying users may feel it lacks the feature they want most.
- PlatformBrowser PWAs have limited background play, picture-in-picture and download support on some phones, which power users may expect.
- RegulatoryOptional sign-in means handling account tokens and personal data, so privacy rules apply even though data is local-first.
Everything marked AI proposal or AI inference was written by a model from the evidence on the opportunity page. The proposed name must be checked against trademark registers before it is used.