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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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At 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.

Netflix never works for me ('title not available try another one or again later' or something, on everything). I'm not even using it to try to change my country, wish there was some other way to verify that. (Or better, that licencing was such that they just didn't care, and nobody would need to use one to change country anyway.)

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

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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…

Definitely would be useful and worth adding but think the idea was to show other countries (for VPN IP-spoofing purposes).

Agree though it should have home country as the default (but also still show other countries in case your home country isn't streaming).

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

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congrats on the shipping. this is a surprisingly tricky problem to solve. feedback : a- john wick is available india via lionsgate subscription in prime; while the app show only rent option. this basically means improving the scraper and channel identification in prime

b- i usually google the movie i intend to watch by appending the keyword watch. for instance, john wick watch this works most of the time, except in cases when a particular was available on a streaming service when google scraped the page, but has since moved to a different service. if you can somehow solve for this then you'll have an edge.

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

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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.

Seems like the best way to monetize this. Doubt anyone will regularly pay for the website and banner ads are annoying. Buying a VPN is the logical next step if you find a movie in a different country, might be nice to have multiple affiliate links but this seems like a win-win, it makes it easier to get a VPN for someone who isn't too familiar and the creator earns a bit for their work.

I always wondered how does affiliate for such sites work? justwatch too has affiliate links to all streaming networks.

Do they sign up for affiliates for every available streaming network (which isn't possible as many don't have a program) or is there a syndicate affiliate network for this?

I am building an price aggregator for a category of products and its so hard to sign up for each of their affiliate individually and balance everyone's T&C.

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

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The first film that pops up for me, “Oppenheimer,” is shown as available on Netflix in the United States. I believe it is exclusive to the Peacock streaming service in the U.S.

How did this happen? Do you have a mixture of manually maintained data and data pulled from APIs like The Movie Database (TMDB) or IMDB?

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

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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…

Changing countries is very useful. You may want to have a look on "JustWatch" app.
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