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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 me_me_me »

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).

there was drop for year. A platform where you watch your fav shows, that remembers where you stopped watching, auto loading next episode, skip into, persistent subtitles and dub options.

All of those were winning them business from people who have money but no time.

But now if a friend recommends a show or movie to watch. In time it takes to figure out where can I watch it, subscribing etc. I could be already watching it from torrents.

I dont have to mentaly juggle subscribing and unsubscribing from platforms that make it extra difficult to cancell etc.

Its too much hustle.

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

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Post by cpeterso »

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…

> let the user set their country.

Or use GeoIP to assume a default country, but allow the user to change their country or clear the country filter. MaxMind has a free offline GeoIP database that’s good.

If the developer wants to keep the full country list, they could move the GeoIP identified country to the top of the list and/or highlight it for easy access.

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

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Post by nottorp »

danilotanic wrote: post #86
LudwigNagasena wrote: post #83

If you are going to do something illegal to watch it anyway, why not just torrent it at that point?

Not exactly sure what you're referring to. If it's the legality of using a VPN to access streaming content, it varies by location and the terms of service of the streaming platforms.

The streaming provider does not have the right to show you the movie in your country. So if you're using a VPN to stream I guess both you and them are guilty of copyright infringement, which is a crime more heinous than murder.

Just torrent the movie then, it's cheaper and more convenient again.

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

#106

Post by dewey »

lencastre wrote: post #23
vundercind wrote: post #18

Earlier 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…

Any specific issues you were running into? It's a German based company and we try to be as accurate as possible everywhere.

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

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Post by Galanwe »

pipes wrote: post #62
nervousvarun wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

Random question, what VPN is good for location spoofing. My current vpn doesn't work for this purpose which is annoying

I use PotonVPN since a while and it works like a charm.

A note though, since some years now using a VPN is not really the panacea for streaming country restricted movies, as more and more the deciding factor is the originating country of your credit card.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

GrifMD wrote: post #14
soci wrote: post #12

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.

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