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Show HN: I made an app that helps you find where to stream movies and TV shows
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Re: Show HN: I made an app that helps you find where to stream movies and TV shows
#22I’m exploring as I write this. In the age of VPNs, one could pass some filtering query and get cheapest to buy/rent, include/exclude countries, include/exclude platforms, and finally,… metacritic, steamDB, IMDb, RottenTomato. Is this in the works, already done?
Great stuff!!
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#23How is this different / better than justwatch?
Justwatch’s UI has gotten a ton worse recently, I assume to make it more likely for people to click sponsored links. It’s getting really hard to use. Last time I used it it was bad enough I thought “hm, this has achieved enshittification, time to look for an alternative…”
JW never really works outside the USA. Honestly…
Re: Show HN: I made an app that helps you find where to stream movies and TV shows
#24How is this different / better than justwatch?
Justwatch’s UI has gotten a ton worse recently, I assume to make it more likely for people to click sponsored links. It’s getting really hard to use. Last time I used it it was bad enough I thought “hm, this has achieved enshittification, time to look for an alternative…”
Doesn’t matter too much as this coincides with the streaming services dying too. Netflix has just decided to force adverts on me, so that’s been cancelled.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Justwatch’s UI has gotten a ton worse recently, I assume to make it more likely for people to click sponsored links. It’s getting really hard to use. Last time I used it it was bad enough I thought “hm, this has achieved enshittification, time to look for an alternative…”
JW never really works outside the USA. Honestly…
hmm, I don’t share the same experience. Works flawless in EU.
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#26it’s a pleasure since I’m Georgian, but there seems to be a bug that Georgia appears in every list without any logic.
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#27"Streaming in 0 countries. See where"
Re: Show HN: I made an app that helps you find where to stream movies and TV shows
#28Great. I would use this all the time of you added this functionality (that no one seems to have):
A filter to see all movies/series that stream in say France but not Germany.
That way you can find something new when you are abroad (or avoid starting a new series on the vacation that you can't continue at home).
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#29This is really neat. I hope you dont mind some feedback as I’ve used a few web apps like this in the past and have a fair idea of my own needs as a user that you may or may not find useful:
I think your app would really benefit from letting me pick the country upfront (I.e. in the header). After this it would be useful to see the streaming options as soon as I’ve selected a movie or tv show with one-click, and with the free options at the top of the list.
Beyond that, it would be nice if you could link me directly to the streaming site’s player page so that I can begin watching right away.
Another really neat use for this would be an app for Android TV/Roku/Apple TV that lets me browse and link directly to content. They all have their own implementations of this but they’re pretty inconsistent when it comes to gaps in supported services.
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#30At first, I thought you built a justwatch.com clone. But, after a quick inspection I realized you solve a related but different use-case where the user already paid for the streaming service holding the rights to the media, but not necessarily match the user’s country location. By enabling the user to check in what countries the media is available you also unlock a new business model based on VPN affiliation programs…
It's been a few years since I've used a VPN with streaming, but I recall some services not working well with it. I was in Australia with NordVPN to the US on a fibre connection.
Yea it all depends on if the service allows it. Netflix commonly showed me a “sorry you’re using a vpn so disable it” message and no amount of new sessions or incognito windows or exit nodes would fix it.
Perhaps this has changed since that time, but I imagine it’s more likely a pacification measure to streaming services to point to for rights holders and if it “accidentally breaks” all the time, they can point the blame at someone else and spend 6 weeks “fixing” it, only for it to “break” again a couple of weeks later. /tinfoil