Tartube is the mature open-source yt-dlp GUI in this space and the
obvious benchmark. As of today we're 8-ahead / 8-behind / 1-tied across
the comparison matrix at the top of the new ROADMAP.md.
Four phases:
1. Tartube feature parity — the 8 items they have that we don't, ordered
by user-visible impact. Per-channel custom download options is the
single biggest gap; everything else (folder hierarchy, filter UI,
comments capture, notes, system tray, format conversion pipeline,
per-distro packaging) follows.
2. Polish where Tartube is mature — integration tests, docs site,
structured error recovery / "rescue recipes", backup-restore, stability
hardening.
3. Surpass — cross-compile mac+win, Android client, WebSocket-driven
progress, smart auto-tagging, federation, a real comment viewer,
perceptual-hash dedup, plugin/scripting hooks.
4. Stretch / blue-sky — TV-mode layout, AI summarisation, multi-user,
Plex/Jellyfin source-plugin integration.
The architectural wins we already have (single Rust binary, real web
UI, bundled curl_cffi venv, Plex export with NFO sidecars, Argon2 auth +
CSP + rate-limit, 10 themes, ETag+gzip on the library response) are
called out so we keep building on them rather than re-litigating them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
