A free, open-source TV debloat app with 5,000 downloads
A Reddit post about an app built with Claude Code (Opus 5.5) that strips bloat from smart TVs.
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Tellyscope is a free, open-source app for Android TV that turns off ads, trackers and bloat in a few taps. It can also sideload apps the TV's store lacks, send files from a phone, and show which apps use data and where they connect. It passed 5,000 downloads in its first week.
The maker didn't write the code. A small team of Claude Code agents (Opus 5.5) runs constantly on a home server: two writing code, one on mockups and documentation, and a lead that assigns requests and reviews every pull request before the maker merges. Screens are mocked up as phone-sized HTML using the real strings from the Kotlin source, and the demo video was generated from screenshot tests rather than recorded.
Because the server is on the home Wi-Fi, the agents connect to real TVs over ADB and watch the logs themselves, but nothing connects until the maker approves it. Testing on real devices caught problems the automated tests missed.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Lemmy: I made a free, open-source TV debloat app with Claude Code (Opus 5.5). Just hit 5,000 downloads in iPublished
The maker's gallery post in r/ClaudeCode with screenshots, the repository and the demo video.