Hi HN!<p>When I was at university (early 2010s) I worked a lot on student media, and got really into what the future of news would look like. Around the same time Microsoft backed a company called LiveStation which has since closed down, but had a nice feature that allowed you to open multiple streams from different news channels at the same time.<p>When I went into professional media, and the offices of The Times, the BBC, The Guardian and the like, this format is common on large screens in the central newsgathering areas: you need to see several feeds at once. But there wasn't a system that I know of that you can have on your workstation, especially one that allows you to switch your audio feed as simply as a click.<p>So I built VidGrid over the last couple of weekends to make this experience accessible to all my colleagues around the world working at home through these challenging circumstances.<p>It gives you easy access to news channels that offer a free open-access playlist file (or you can paste your own). Those that are protected (sensibly) by CORs or some other DRM technology it obviously can't load.<p>It's built in React with a heavy dependency on the fantastic multi-source React-Player, and it's my first 'significant' (in my terms) project, though I've spent a lot more time in the last few weeks coding than I did in the office.<p>I hope it can be of use to some of you, or if any of you have colleagues or friends in newsrooms you can pass it on.<p>Thanks :)