Hey everyone,
This is one of the first real projects I've shipped as a solo dev, and I'm a bit nervous posting about it, so bear with me.
It started as a personal thing. I wanted a clean IPTV player I could actually use comfortably on my Steam Deck, and nothing I tried felt right. Either the UI didn't work well with a controller, or it wasn't built with the Deck in mind at all. So I started building my own. You bring your own playlist (the app doesn't provide any content), and it just plays it nicely.
After using it for a while myself, I figured other people might want the same thing, so I cleaned it up and turned it into a real product: https://my-tv.app/
A few honest notes:
- I tried to put it on Steam, but Steam is pretty strict about non-game apps and mine didn't fit their criteria. So instead I wrote a script for SteamOS that installs it directly into Steam as a non-Steam game, so people who aren't comfortable with desktop mode can still set it up easily.
- It also runs on Windows, macOS and Linux desktop if you don't have a Deck.
- I'm a solo dev. There will be bugs. I'd genuinely love feedback, bug reports, or even just "hey this would be cool to add" kind of messages.
- I only tried with one type of playlist, which is the one I have a subscription, so I have no idea how it will behave with other providers.
If you give it a try and it doesn't work for you, please tell me. I'd rather know than not know. And if it does work, sharing the project around helps me a lot more than I can say at this stage.
Thanks for reading.