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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 yurishimo »

supriyo-biswas wrote: post #112
dspillett wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Netflix commonly showed me a “sorry you’re using a vpn > Perhaps this has changed It is an ongoing arms race. Sometimes the VPN providers are winning, sometimes the streaming services make a temporarily successful counter-offensive, sometimes the battleground is a mess with things working for some mixes of vpn/country/streamer but not others.⁰ The streaming services block the address ranges of known data-centres, t…

They could just use the country of the credit card as an indicator for what movies to allow access to. I believe the reason for not doing this is simply because streaming providers would like to keep that option open to avoid losing a customer.

There is also the very real part of life that exists in traveling. Especially if you live in Europe, you can find yourself in a different country with different media rights in less than an hour or two in a lot of cases. In those scenarios, it's important to not only manage the complexity of your own customers and the needs of the business as well.

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

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Post by fandorin »

danilotanic wrote: post #135
fandorin wrote: post #119

Nice app! Congrats on launching! I was about to start building something similar but a bit different use case (maybe you can add it to your app?): if the tv show is not available in my country, I want to be able to set an email alert and get an email notification when it becomes available.

Oh that is definitely on our roadmap and something I've been heavily thinking about. Stay tuned!

cool, please let me know when it’s available!

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

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Post by reincoder »

danilotanic wrote: post #130
cpeterso wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 :)

Feel free to check the IPinfo IP to Country database: https://ipinfo.io/products/free-ip-database

It is pretty easy to use, and comes with full accuracy (daily updates).

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] »

foehrenwald wrote: post #75
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…

How would it work as a NordVPN ad then - probably the only reason this site exists, with astroturfing HN comments to match...

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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 Mark_worship »

This is a nice one. It solves a problem but I did notice something.

This solution isn't disruptive so FAANG competitors most likely can suffocate you by trying to replicate.

I will like to know if there's a disruption this product has that I might not have seen or noticed?

If it doesn't have in totality then try solving this problem in a disruptive way.

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

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Post by Mark_worship »

askonomm wrote: post #146

It's funny, with all the saturation of streaming services and despite having more disposable income than ever before, I actually largely went back to what I did as a teenager - piracy. I don't have a problem paying for things, but I'd really like to actually own what I pay for, too. So if I can buy a film, I will, and store it on my portable SSD, and if I can't, I'll pirate it. But I'm not willing to pay rent fees to…

Why rent movies when you can just do monthly subscriptions and can stream whatever you want?

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

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Post by Mark_worship »

danilotanic wrote: post #135
fandorin wrote: post #119

Nice app! Congrats on launching! I was about to start building something similar but a bit different use case (maybe you can add it to your app?): if the tv show is not available in my country, I want to be able to set an email alert and get an email notification when it becomes available.

Oh that is definitely on our roadmap and something I've been heavily thinking about. Stay tuned!

I think making it a notification via the app (just like Facebook notification) will be better than email notifications (email notifications would be costly when so so bulky).

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

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Post by askonomm »

Mark_worship wrote: post #167
askonomm wrote: post #146

It's funny, with all the saturation of streaming services and despite having more disposable income than ever before, I actually largely went back to what I did as a teenager - piracy. I don't have a problem paying for things, but I'd really like to actually own what I pay for, too. So if I can buy a film, I will, and store it on my portable SSD, and if I can't, I'll pirate it. But I'm not willing to pay rent fees to…

Why rent movies when you can just do monthly subscriptions and can stream whatever you want?

I don't want to rent, I want to own. Monthly subscriptions are just perpetual renting.

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

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Post by Saepirist »

Hey, congrats on the launch. I noticed that you are using my API ( https://www.movieofthenight.com/about/api ) to get the streaming availability data, but I couldn't see any attribution regards to it. Can you please add an attribution as it is part of the Terms & Conditions ( https://github.com/movieofthenight/streaming-availability-ap... )?
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