Vibecode 1of10

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price $29/moyou'd save $348/yrbuild time a weekendcategory 🐦 social mediareplaced by 0 people

The core math is embarrassingly simple: pull a channel's uploads, compute a median or trailing baseline, divide each video's views by it, sort descending. The YouTube Data API hands you everything you need for that, and an agent can wire up a local outlier dashboard for a list of channels you care about in one sitting. Where it breaks down is scale: 1of10's real product is a pre-indexed corpus of millions of videos you can search across niches you have never heard of, with history that predates your interest. Your build can only see channels you thought to track, and the free API quota caps how many you can refresh per day. Good enough for watching 50 competitors, useless for open-ended idea mining.

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README.md
# 1of10 indie build

## Goal

Build the smallest trustworthy replacement for the core 1of10 workflow for one developer or a tiny team.

## Scope

Tracks a list of YouTube channels, computes each video's view multiple against its channel baseline, and shows a sortable outlier feed with thumbnails and titles.

## Quick start

1. Install the documented dependencies.
2. Copy `.env.example` to `.env`.
3. Run the development command chosen during implementation.
4. Complete the acceptance checks in `BUILD_PLAN.md`.

## Honest limits

This build deliberately does not replace:
- Cross-channel discovery: you can only find outliers in channels you already listed
- Historical depth, their index has view curves from before you started collecting
- Quota headroom, refreshing thousands of channels daily needs paid access or many keys
- Curated niche collections, thumbnail galleries and saved-idea workflows
- Shorts vs long-form normalization and view-velocity nuance that took them iterations to get right

If those capabilities are essential, use 1of10 instead of pretending the gap is solved.

$ choose a build depth, inspect the files, then open the complete pack in your agent · this prompt is generated from the build plan · improve it via PR

why people still pay

Because the point of outlier research is finding formats in corners of YouTube you would never think to monitor, and that requires a crawler that has been running for years on someone else's quota budget. A personal tracker answers "what is working for my competitors" nicely. It cannot answer "what format is quietly exploding in a niche adjacent to mine", which is the question people actually pay for.

what you lose

xCross-channel discovery: you can only find outliers in channels you already listed

xHistorical depth, their index has view curves from before you started collecting

xQuota headroom, refreshing thousands of channels daily needs paid access or many keys

xCurated niche collections, thumbnail galleries and saved-idea workflows

xShorts vs long-form normalization and view-velocity nuance that took them iterations to get right

prior art · use these instead of building, if you'd rather

Nothing worth pointing at. That's why the prompt exists.

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questions
Vibecode 1of10

Kinda. The core of 1of10 is buildable in a weekend with the prompt on this page, but there are real gaps: Cross-channel discovery: you can only find outliers in channels you already listed, Historical depth, their index has view curves from before you started collecting. Read the honest list above before committing.

How much does 1of10 cost?

1of10 costs about $29/month (Basic, checked 2026-08-18), which is $348 per year.

What do I lose by replacing 1of10?

Honestly: Cross-channel discovery: you can only find outliers in channels you already listed; Historical depth, their index has view curves from before you started collecting; Quota headroom, refreshing thousands of channels daily needs paid access or many keys; Curated niche collections, thumbnail galleries and saved-idea workflows; Shorts vs long-form normalization and view-velocity nuance that took them iterations to get right. If any of those are load-bearing for you, keep paying.

Is there an open-source alternative to 1of10?

No mature open-source alternative worth pointing at, which is exactly why the one-shot prompt on this page exists.