No Suggest - distraction-free YouTube client

Varun Manjunath — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:52:30 +0000

I have been frustrated with YouTube for a while. Not the content, but the everything around it. The homepage full of bait, the auto-play into things I didn't ask for, the Shorts that hijack your scroll, the recommendations that somehow know exactly what will keep you there longest.

So I built NoSuggest.

What it is
A YouTube feed reader that shows you only the channels you follow, nothing else. No algorithm, no recommendations, no Shorts, no homepage, no auto-play, no endless side cards of videos. You add a channel, it fetches their latest videos, done.

It lives at nosuggest.com and installs as a PWA on any device — iPhone, Android, desktop — straight from the browser. No app store.

The interesting technical constraint: one HTML file
The entire app is a single index.html. No account setup, no sign-in, no data collection. Everything that needs to persist — your channel list, saved videos, settings — lives in localStorage.

No search history. No watch history. No "you might also like." No trending section. No notification badges designed to create anxiety. No dark patterns anywhere.

Every time I was tempted to add something convenient, I asked: does this serve the user's intention, or does it serve engagement? If it was the latter, it didn't make the cut.

Try it
nosuggest.com — Source Available here, free forever.

Curious what others think about this as useful.

Thank you.

DEV Community: Varun Manjunath

No Suggest - distraction-free YouTube client