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Show HN: A 15 MB self-hosted Netflix and Spotify for your media server

48 points CoderLuii 1 hour ago 33 comments

CoderLuii 1 hour ago | parent

hi HN, im luis. 10+ years in software and security, homelabbing for about 5

"netflix and spotify" is how it feels to use, not what it does under the hood. holyarrs doesnt play anything. you browse your shows, movies and music like a streaming app (top 10s, new & popular, coming soon), tap what you want, and it sends it to your downloader and files it into jellyfin or plex. those still do the playing

before this, my server needed 6 apps for that: sonarr for shows, radarr for movies, lidarr for music, bazarr for subtitles, prowlarr for indexers and overseerr for requests. 6 setups, 6 databases, and nobody in my house but me could use any of them

- the image is 15 MB. the 6 apps it replaces are 718 MB together - one go binary, svelte UI, sqlite. the image has no OS and no shell - runs on amd64, arm64 and armv7 - works with qbittorrent, sabnzbd, plex, jellyfin, emby - imports your sonarr/radarr setup, and speaks their api so seerr can keep talking to it - no api keys to set up. posters and search come from a metadata server i run and pay for - free, AGPL-3.0

how it got built: claude code wrote most of the go and svelte. i wrote the specs, reviewed everything and tested it on my own server. what it got wrong: it never noticed cost. the app got heavier build after build until i started measuring every single one. thats the only reason its still 15 MB

why you might want to wait: its young, 1.0.7 shipped today and im fixing reports as they come in. music is still being built out, and a few features are held back until theyre fully tested (plex watchlists, trakt lists, subtitle sites)

why i built it: my family wanted netflix and i had 6 apps nobody but me could use

im in the comments, tell me what breaks

embedding-shape 47 minutes ago | parent

> im in the comments

I'm not convinced this is true, could you expand further what you mean here?

xfalcox 44 minutes ago | parent

I'm interested. Does it handle subtitles translation with AI ? This is a must have for me.

First try to obtain subtitles in the locale I need, fallback to using AI to translate the embeded ones, fallback to downloading ones in original language / english and translating.

belst 29 minutes ago | parent

you could have at least written the comment yourself. stopped reading after the 2nd sentence.

onionisafruit 18 minutes ago | parent

> I had 6 apps nobody but me could use

That’s how I feel. I’ll give this a try.

ZenoArrow 1 hour ago | parent

> AI or MCP features. Not in 1.0.

Why would you even want this, what desirable features could you add by adding AI?

glimshe 58 minutes ago | parent

Not the OP, but I see a lot of complaints on HN about dumb media player "voice control". I myself had cringe experiences with my car when I wanted to play a particular genre or song.

SketchySeaBeast 8 minutes ago | parent

Unfortunately. if you have experience with Android and Gemini, the in car voice control has become worse with the introduction of AI.

utopiah 57 minutes ago | parent

Downloading subtitles with STT fallback via whisper then summary so that you don't even have to watch the show anymore, way more efficient. /s

segmondy 52 minutes ago | parent

I want everything AI capable. Just allow me to plug in my own selection of model.

timcobb 5 minutes ago | parent

That's MCP, or a CLI

vinnymac 34 minutes ago | parent

I would use it for a regularly scheduled validation job.

Sometimes a bad copy, mismatch, or low-rated media slips through all the filters. Could use an LLM to fix the media and harden the filters to prevent issues going forward. I’ve probably spent weeks of my life toiling and tweaking over the last 15 years.

Oxodao 57 minutes ago | parent

I'd love something like this, and i'll maybe try it, but last time we had something like this it turned pretty quickly to a shitshow.

Though I like the choice of go. The heavy c# stack other have is quite resource intensive

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1rckopd/huntarr...

Oxodao 46 minutes ago | parent

> Do I keep qBittorrent or SABnzbd? Yes, for now.

What do you mean "for now" if there's one thing i don't want it to replace it's clearly qbittorrent. Trackers have client whitelist and I don't see a brand new vibecoded app being added to any of the serious ones

vekntksijdhric 57 minutes ago | parent

A 13 HOUR OLD repo? no thanks

hsuduebc2 40 minutes ago | parent

tiresome

mlnj 24 minutes ago | parent

Perhaps you will wait for the dry-aged repo.

I believe things will be from now on. People see a gap in the offerings out there and they just whip it up. There will be a certain amount of stability that the LLMs will add by default to all of them and that's it. If you are interested, go ahead and use it.

vekntksijdhric 16 minutes ago | parent

I create my own vibecoded apps for my own use, that is not the problem. releasing them for others (who might not know this hasn't been tested) is irresponsible.

figassis 22 minutes ago | parent

I don’t get this. So today he can build the experience he wants with little effort (he likely spent lots of tokens). You made no judgement in the quality or on his experience, only on the age of the repo. Why exactly is that?

I get there will be a lot of crapware, but you’re hackers no? Why all the gatekeeping even amongst yourselves? How much time did the openclaw guy take to built it? A weekend?

Sure, you could say “no thanks”. But all the labs certainly thought it was useful enough to replicate. And yes, it was, still is an insecure mess littered with bugs, but why are we all so repulsed?

It’s a genuine need. I build my own version of this, also on go, haven’t shared bc I am not sure how legal it is to distribute, but I have been using it for months and definitely beats running 6+ apps that keep breaking. I run one binary + jellyfin, never going back.

vekntksijdhric 17 minutes ago | parent

The problem is not the vibecoding, it is the release of a public facing internet app that is not a day old, hence it is impossible to know if it has security issues. He is supposedly a security engineer and he RELEASES a repo with less than a day old? how do you know it is secure? Again, this is something that will interact with the open internet.

Gatekeeping would be "do not write vibecoded apps for yourself", which is not the case here, this is releasing code for the public in an irresponsible manner.

xprnio 7 minutes ago | parent

Good thing it’s open source, so the user can verify the code themselves.

utopiah 54 minutes ago | parent

FWIW

    ls -lh /usr/sbin/minidlnad
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 323K Feb 21  2025 /usr/sbin/minidlnad

and a lot of TV, video projectors, etc support DLNA out of the box, if they don't add VLC and you are good to go.

stroebs 45 minutes ago | parent

Does it use the same data sources that Seerr, Sonarr, and Radarr use? What is it?

Are you aiming to be more feature complete with the rest of the *arr stack or intentionally a different course?

comrade1234 42 minutes ago | parent

I started using plex years ago because the ui-experience in Netflix was so bad. I've long-switched to plex 100%.

hsuduebc2 38 minutes ago | parent

Exactly what these services deserve.

mephux 27 minutes ago | parent

jellyfin?

CommanderData 26 minutes ago | parent

Subtitles? I really don't want to sign up to Opensubtitles and be hit with their ridiculous daily limit (on what is just text).

I was looking for a project just like yours and couldn't be bothered building one myself.

Edit: Gemini has provided some subtitles options.

Subtitle Search & Database APIs

• TheSubtitleDB.org: A completely free, open REST API for media players and apps. It requires no account, no API key, and has no rate limits, offering exact file hash matching as well as IMDb ID and TV episode lookups.

• Wyzie Subs (wyzie.io): A fast subtitle search API for movies and TV shows. It offers a free tier with 1,000 requests per day, sub-50ms response times, hearing-impaired filter options, and multi-language support.

• Opensubtitles-Unofficial-API: An open-source, community-hosted unofficial API. It lets you search and download subtitles from OpenSubtitle.

FabCH 25 minutes ago | parent

Ok, I'm a potential user, but what is your long term plan for following the scene and making sure HolyArrs supports the wild west of the grey area content acquisition?

Things like parsing the file name for format, group, language, repack etc...

vinnymac 25 minutes ago | parent

This interests me, but I’ll let it cook a bit more before I give it a spin. I’ve got enough customization that moving to this without disruption may be a little challenging, or token heavy.

Adding a “Copy prompt for agent” instruction to the top of your docs, would be lower friction to entry, and allow me to review what it is that needs doing. It can be hard to account for every way someone might self host in docs too, which is why I think an agent is going to have a much easier time automating the setup here.

hjahre 17 minutes ago | parent

Pirate 'ere. Why may your arrs be holy? Me arrs are where I put them

tjohnell 3 minutes ago | parent

I've seen this "consolidate all the arr" attempts for many years now. None prevail. Not saying this one won't, but something tells me it's going to peter out and be abandonware. It's incredible how still the OG arr apps have been to be honest. Likely because they are extremely stable and well-integrated.