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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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#122How does this compare to PlayPilot?
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#123Suggestion: don't lose search strings. Example: in the search box type "Panda" -- a modal window pops up with 6 matches. Which one do I want? I click one. It fills the window. Nope, that is not the one. So I click the Back button-- and the search box is empty. I have to type "Panda" again. That is annoying.
Probably you should just repaint the main window, with the search string intact but showing only the matching selection of titles. Then one could alt-click to open a title in a separate window or tab, and not lose the search.
Re: Show HN: I made an app that helps you find where to stream movies and TV shows
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
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)?
Stremio works with plugins. There's certain plugins that are able to fetch contents directly from torrent downloads, so the typical warnings about torrenting apply there (not to receive an undesired letter on the mailbox). However, that same plugin is able to use some paid for services that download the torrents for you, which is safe(r). IMO if subtitles aren't needed, it does pass the wife test once it's all config…
Ah, so realistically it's only likely to be a good UX when combined with a paid download service. I think I know which one you're referring to (at least, I only know of one such service, which I learned about from Reddit).
I have an Amazon Fire Stick, which works flawlessly with Plex across my local network, so hopefully Stremio works as well on it too.
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#125My wishlist for a service like this:
- Let me select a streaming service and get an A-Z listing of all available titles
- Show me if shows are censored/modified in any way or missing episodes
- Show me if shows are included with the price of subscription or if you have to pay more on top of what you're already paying (a huge problem with amazon)
- Work without JS enabled
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#126Features I would like: a country filter and a way to select which streaming services I have access to. And if I search for something show that it is not available with my filters.
Re: Show HN: I made an app that helps you find where to stream movies and TV shows
#127My wishlist for a service like this: - Let me select a streaming service and get an A-Z listing of all available titles - Show me if shows are censored/modified in any way or missing episodes - Show me if shows are included with the price of subscription or if you have to pay more on top of what you're already paying (a huge problem with amazon) - Work without JS enabled
>Let me select a streaming service and get an A-Z listing of all available titles
This 100%, maybe add the option for me to select which services I have, and then make the a-z list include all those I have access to.
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#128At 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.
Ironically the US is one of the worst countries to use as a streaming endpoint because so many of the primary rightsholders are based here, and only license content to their preferred network.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
That's an extremely valid piece of feedback and something I'm planning to spend more time clarifying on the platform so that people know how to navigate those and similar issues. There are cases where it's not only the credit card that's a deciding factor, but sometimes even the country from which you were creating your account (e.g. Prime Video).
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#130Improvement 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.
Implementing soon :)