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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 Retr0id »

daveoc64 wrote: post #69
Retr0id wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe they fixed it in the 3 minutes since you commented, but it's not telling me Oppenheimer is available on UK Netflix, only to buy on Amazon (which seems correct - I'm in the UK and Amazon is showing me a Buy button)

It's still there for me! https://imgur.com/a/mQ5tMQO

IIUC, that's telling you that you can stream it in the UK if you use NordVPN to pretend to be one of the other countries listed.

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

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Post by tqwhite »

I also thought, "Justwatch clone" but, it's much nicer, even aside from the international info. Justwatch is so cumbersome. Yours is fast and clean.

I note that, testing around, I asked for The Brokenwood Mysteries, a show I am currently watching on Acorn. Whereto said there were no streaming opportunities. Oops.

Also worth noting, Justwatch couldn't find it at all so, win!?

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

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Post by foehrenwald »

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...

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

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Post by crtasm »

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.

The point being made here is that the site is incorrect or lying about availability, I think?

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

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Post by willhackett »

Love it! A possible addition could be storing the user's subscribed TV services and region in local storage in order to bias the returned search results. Additionally, on the results page, take the user's region and display icons for each service that they can stream or purchase from without them needing to click through!

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

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Post by noAnswer »

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…

German streams only: https://www.werstreamt.es
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