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Re: Show HN: I made an app that helps you find where to stream movies and TV shows

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Post by cess11 »

oefrha wrote: post #9

> the effort to pinpoint the precise country of streaming availability routinely became a burdensome task. Which is why bittorrenting, TPB and shit are making a roaring comeback (if it ever faded).

I think there was a slump for a while. Usenet has probably been going relatively strongly through it though, but it comes with a cost which means it's not a direct alternative to torrents with their seeding-and-ratio-based communities.

Re: Show HN: I made an app that helps you find where to stream movies and TV shows

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Post by felsokning »

serial_dev wrote: post #39

Improvement ideas: let the user set their country. If I live in Germany, and I don't want to bother with VPN, knowing that a TV show is available in Argentina and 30 other countries is not important. Also, I don't think this takes care of the case where some seasons of a show is available but not the others. Maybe that's also the reason for false negatives in some cases (others mentioned this). Another thing: be able…

Along the same lines to your suggestion (thus, piggybacking): A filter based on principal language of the movie[s].

For example, if I want to discover new movies in German, Swedish, Norwegian, etc., I have to know the name, first, for the search operation; otherwise, I just movies with the term in the title (e.g.: Svenska returns Svenska tv-historier, Svenska fall, Svenska Hollywoodfruar, Barncancergalan - Det Svenska humorpriset, Svenska Truckers, and Svenska Powerkvinnor).

Which leads me to a suggestion, based on that:

If there's no steam available, don't return the result in the search[1]. The whole intent of the site to show "where to stream" but if there's no stream, returning a result with the message 'Sorry, we couldn't find any streaming information.' is a bit of a false positive -- in a "we have it but we don't" sense.

[1] - https://whereto.stream/tv/113371

Re: Show HN: I made an app that helps you find where to stream movies and TV shows

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Post by INTPenis »

eps wrote: post #32

From what I see this looks like an affiliate link farm for NordVPN. Every single movie I tried shows up as being not available in my country with "Stream with NordVPN" slapped next to it. Even though they are available just fine.

You don't have to obey every button online, you can make your own decisions and use your own vpn.

Re: Show HN: I made an app that helps you find where to stream movies and TV shows

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Post by addandsubtract »

INTPenis wrote: post #44
eps wrote: post #32

From what I see this looks like an affiliate link farm for NordVPN. Every single movie I tried shows up as being not available in my country with "Stream with NordVPN" slapped next to it. Even though they are available just fine.

You don't have to obey every button online, you can make your own decisions and use your own vpn.

Some VPNs don't work with Netflix, for example, though. I've never used Nord, so can't judge them, but there's definitely a difference between VPN providers when it comes to streaming support.

Re: Show HN: I made an app that helps you find where to stream movies and TV shows

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Post by GordonS »

DeathArrow wrote: post #19

Content is available on Stremio on any country. Problem solved.

How is the UX with Stremio? Would it pass the "wife test"?

Like, does it buffer and cut out constantly, or require fiddling with settings all the time, or does it Just Work(TM)?

Re: Show HN: I made an app that helps you find where to stream movies and TV shows

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Post by newswasboring »

Great app, I will use this. But this is it. This is the last step. Streaming services have ads already. Now we just need one more service which packages these streaming channels together. This actually has a good opportunity to be in front of that if we could somehow watch different streaming content without leaving the app. Get customers locked in, and partner with providers for share in subscription.
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