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Show HN: I made an app that helps you find where to stream movies
and TV shows
I often found myself searching for that one movie or TV show not
currently available in my country. Whether it was on Netflix, Apple
TV, HBO, or any other platform, the effort to pinpoint the precise
country of streaming availability routinely became a burdensome
task. Realizing the need for a streamlined solution, I created one.
Now you can effortlessly find your desired content and simplify
your entertainment journey beyond borders.
Author : danilotanic
Score : 290 points
Date : 2024-04-30 17:29 UTC (1 days ago)
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| datguyfromAT wrote:
| i guess there are not a lot of public apis provided by streaming
| providers like netflix which makes your service very unreliable.
| I am from austria and for rebel moon part 2, which is a netflix
| exclusive, no available streaming providers are listed.
| monstajoe wrote:
| Yeah I'm curious myself. Did you find an API for it, or did you
| build your own that scrapes the internet for services that
| offer this content?
| danilotanic wrote:
| This will be a primary focus moving forward -- improving the
| reliability of displayed information. We're currently working
| with an API that doesn't come from any official streaming
| providers, which, as you mentioned, generally do not offer such
| support.
| Protonu3102 wrote:
| Loved your app, searched for a movie that I wanted to watch but
| it wasn't in my country. Thanks for this app.
| danilotanic wrote:
| Appreciate the kind words! I'm looking to improve the product
| with more advanced features in the near future, so stick around
| :)
| 100721 wrote:
| How is this different / better than justwatch?
| vundercind wrote:
| 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..."
| lencastre wrote:
| JW never really works outside the USA. Honestly...
| soci wrote:
| hmm, I don't share the same experience. Works flawless in
| EU.
| dewey wrote:
| Any specific issues you were running into? It's a German
| based company and we try to be as accurate as possible
| everywhere.
| chgs wrote:
| Doesn't matter too much as this coincides with the streaming
| services dying too. Netflix has just decided to force adverts
| on me, so that's been cancelled.
| iJohnDoe wrote:
| Very cool. Helps find new stuff. Congrats on launch!
| danilotanic wrote:
| Thank you!
| oefrha wrote:
| > 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).
| cess11 wrote:
| I think there was a slump for a while. Usenet has probably been
| going relatively strongly through it though, but it comes with
| a cost which means it's not a direct alternative to torrents
| with their seeding-and-ratio-based communities.
| me_me_me wrote:
| 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.
| darknavi wrote:
| Dogma is always a good test:
|
| https://whereto.stream/movie/1832
| defrost wrote:
| and then there are the stress testers
|
| https://whereto.stream/movie/364905
| https://whereto.stream/movie/108049
| https://whereto.stream/movie/385757
| chrchr wrote:
| This is nice! At first I thought it was wheel-reinvented
| https://justwatch.com, but unlike that site, this one shows you
| which services in each country have the content you're looking
| for, so that you can watch whatever you want, simply by traveling
| internationally, or by using a VPN.
| danilotanic wrote:
| That's correct. Thank you for your comment!
| soci wrote:
| 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 (brilliant!) instead of
| streaming service affiliation programs like justwatch does. I
| wonder if both revenues models are complementary in the long run.
|
| It's nuts that watching media from another country for a
| streaming service I pay for is as easy as changing my IP to the
| desired country. Does it really work in this way?
|
| Also, I hope you can provide some light on whether you are
| gaining any traction and unlocking vpn subcriptions revenue.
|
| Suggestion: let the user select from what country it connects
| And/or automatically detect it. I'm in Europe and it's confusing
| it offers me to stream from my own country using a vpn.
| GrifMD wrote:
| 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.
| yurishimo wrote:
| Yea it all depends on if the service allows it. Netflix
| commonly showed me a "sorry you're using a vpn so disable it"
| message and no amount of new sessions or incognito windows or
| exit nodes would fix it.
|
| Perhaps this has changed since that time, but I imagine it's
| more likely a pacification measure to streaming services to
| point to for rights holders and if it "accidentally breaks"
| all the time, they can point the blame at someone else and
| spend 6 weeks "fixing" it, only for it to "break" again a
| couple of weeks later. /tinfoil
| dspillett wrote:
| _> 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, though not commercial addresses more
| generally because there is often enough a cross-over
| between residential and commercial ISP accounts12 so that
| is one workaround VPN providers can use in their choice of
| exit points (though bandwidth can be significantly more
| expensive that way than from a DC).
|
| I'm not aware of it actually being done, but I'd not be
| surprised to find a less ethical VPN business hasn't tried
| to use their customers as a mesh and redirecting traffic
| around them as needed much like botnets use compromised
| hosts to forward requests. There are obvious technical
| difficulties here that make it a less practical idea3 but I
| can imagine someone trying it.
|
| --
|
| [0] Reference: I don't use a VPN this way myself,
| preferring the other major unlicensed media access route,
| bit I know a few people who do with varying levels of
| success over time.
|
| [1] My home account is essentially a commercial one as that
| is the ISPs main customer base, I use them for a number of
| reasons (fixed IPv4 that I can run servers off, in fact a
| /29 of v4 addresses though that is a lot less important to
| me now than it was some years ago, native IPv6 which is
| still no commonplace here (though I _still_ haven 't set
| that up properly after all this time!), much better support
| when things fail, so _I 'm_ not the one spending time
| chasing BT OR, etc.)
|
| [2] Similarly, many small offices actually run their access
| off what is targetted as a residential account. And small
| businesses based in/around a home are another grey area.
|
| [3] In many places most residential users have
| significantly asymmetric bandwidth, throttling their
| ability to be used as a relay, and a mix of accounts from
| different countries looking to come from the same address
| might trip the streaming services' account anomaly
| detection heuristics.
| supriyo-biswas wrote:
| 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.
| yieldcrv wrote:
| Residential VPN
|
| they're just blocking data centers
| OJFord wrote:
| 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.)
| TylerE wrote:
| 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.
| fastball wrote:
| justwatch.com lets you check different countries as well.
| ant6n wrote:
| I used to pay for a service that only ran the Netflix country
| detection through a VPN, so we could switch countries easily.
| But Netflix cracked down on this service and VPNs about 5 years
| ago and it stopped working. Oh well.
| jedberg wrote:
| > It's nuts that watching media from another country for a
| streaming service I pay for is as easy as changing my IP to the
| desired country. Does it really work in this way?
|
| Not anymore. Netflix will block your account if the same device
| jumps countries faster than is possible via normal travel. Also
| they block all the public VPNs.
| frankvdwaal wrote:
| Man, there are a whole bunch of sites that cover the Netherlands,
| but they always seem to be out of date or dog slow to the point
| of timeouts and ad-laden.
|
| This is fast and accurate - just type it in and boom. Why can't
| the web be more of this? Made for people, you know?
| danilotanic wrote:
| Haha I appreciate your comment and I'm glad you managed to find
| what you're looking for!
| Lewton wrote:
| https://whereto.stream/movie/8810?provider=hbo
|
| Why does it claim that mad max 2 is streamable on hbo in denmark?
| Decided to watch the trilogy this weekend and had a laugh that
| only the first and the third was available here
| sunnybeetroot wrote:
| I also found it mentioned movies in my country yet they were
| not visible on Netflix.
| 14 wrote:
| It is funny how pirating is still by far the most convenient
| method of them all. Streaming services is becoming much like
| cable tv was and the various tiers of service. I simply use
| Yandex.com and type "x" movie stream and then can watch anything
| I want at a moments notice. I tried to pay for netflix and
| currently still have amazon prime but netflix stopped allowing my
| kids to use the account at their moms house so canceled. I just
| taught my kids how to stream free movies instead.
| DeathArrow wrote:
| Content is available on Stremio on any country. Problem solved.
| lnxg33k1 wrote:
| Yeah its the only way to keep sanity, and to fight back greed,
| like having one series with seasons split between different
| services
| j1elo wrote:
| Just like some times we use the "obligatory XKCD" around
| here, this time it applies more a funny "obligatory Dunkey"
| :)
|
| https://youtu.be/yvhv7bgmz64
| GordonS wrote:
| 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)?
| j1elo wrote:
| 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 configured. Subs wouldn't pass it though; it's
| common having to fiddle with sync settings to fix them.
| Chromecast casting definitely doesn't pass the test either:
| it is finicky, it resets the connection completely for each
| change (like seeking or changing subs), and it very
| frequently ends up erroring out with issues.
| GordonS wrote:
| 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.
| coffee_ wrote:
| My wife loves this! Thank you building it as I'm sure she will
| use it tons.
|
| Feature request: There's a streaming service called Viki that has
| a show called "Lovely Runner" -- the site doesn't seem to contain
| Viki as a source.
| danilotanic wrote:
| Glad to hear that! We'll look into adding Viki and many other
| streaming services as a source. Thanks for your feedback.
| lencastre wrote:
| Cenk Iu
| lencastre wrote:
| I'm exploring as I write this. In the age of VPNs, one could pass
| some filtering query and get cheapest to buy/rent,
| include/exclude countries, include/exclude platforms, and
| finally,... metacritic, steamDB, IMDb, RottenTomato. Is this in
| the works, already done?
|
| Great stuff!!
| danilotanic wrote:
| Definitely on the roadmap. Thank you for your feedback!
| supuun wrote:
| it's a pleasure since I'm Georgian, but there seems to be a bug
| that Georgia appears in every list without any logic.
| firstbabylonian wrote:
| "Streaming in 0 countries. See where"
| criddell wrote:
| Antarctica maybe?
| victorbjorklund wrote:
| Great. I would use this all the time of you added this
| functionality (that no one seems to have):
|
| A filter to see all movies/series that stream in say France but
| not Germany.
|
| That way you can find something new when you are abroad (or avoid
| starting a new series on the vacation that you can't continue at
| home).
| danilotanic wrote:
| Implementing soon! Thank you for your feedback.
| highwaylights wrote:
| This is really neat. I hope you dont mind some feedback as I've
| used a few web apps like this in the past and have a fair idea of
| my own needs as a user that you may or may not find useful:
|
| I think your app would really benefit from letting me pick the
| country upfront (I.e. in the header). After this it would be
| useful to see the streaming options as soon as I've selected a
| movie or tv show with one-click, and with the free options at the
| top of the list.
|
| Beyond that, it would be nice if you could link me directly to
| the streaming site's player page so that I can begin watching
| right away.
|
| Another really neat use for this would be an app for Android
| TV/Roku/Apple TV that lets me browse and link directly to
| content. They all have their own implementations of this but
| they're pretty inconsistent when it comes to gaps in supported
| services.
| Staple_Diet wrote:
| Stremio (with add-ons like Watch Hub) does most of what you
| describe.
| noisy_boy wrote:
| Suggestion: in addition to the ability to select the "home"
| country, add an option to select the VPN provider I'm using so
| that it further filters to only show the countries where the
| provider has a server.
| danilotanic wrote:
| Implementing soon!
| eps wrote:
| 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.
| zopper wrote:
| 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.
| vidyesh wrote:
| 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.
| lm28469 wrote:
| Many have hidden programs. First you bring them the
| traffic, then you call them and discuss an affiliate deal
| INTPenis wrote:
| You don't have to obey every button online, you can make your
| own decisions and use your own vpn.
| addandsubtract wrote:
| Some VPNs don't work with Netflix, for example, though. I've
| never used Nord, so can't judge them, but there's definitely
| a difference between VPN providers when it comes to streaming
| support.
| crtasm wrote:
| The point being made here is that the site is incorrect or
| lying about availability, I think?
| andridk wrote:
| I'd appreciate a top-level country filter. It helps reduce noise,
| and can still allow you to put VPN affiliate links when there are
| no matches.
| danilotanic wrote:
| Implementing soon ;)
| sunnysogra wrote:
| Nice! I tested a bit, the UI is clean and better than justwatch.
| Searched for a couple of movies and they are available. Congrats
| on the launch and thank you for sharing this with us. I will
| share my feedback and feature requests after using it more.
| danilotanic wrote:
| Thank you for your support! All feedback is welcome, especially
| as we iterate and improve.
| wodenokoto wrote:
| Where do you source the data?
| bartkappenburg wrote:
| Maybe here: https://developer.themoviedb.org/reference/tv-
| season-watch-p...
| serial_dev wrote:
| 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 to search by subtitles and audio. In our
| household, we speak three languages, and I can't watch shows in 2
| out of 3 with the standard location. It's also great for people
| learning languages (common VPN pitch).
|
| Overall, great stuff! The mobile view's information density is
| very low, I can see 1.7 tiles, so I always need to scroll.
|
| Tapping on the tiles doesn't do anything apart from changing the
| background.
|
| Some more preset selections would be nice like "Sitcom".
|
| Recommendations based on the selected movie would be also great,
| for example when I'm watching HIMYM, I'd not mind seeing where
| Friends is available (it's basically the same jokes but a decade
| apart with different actors).
| felsokning wrote:
| Along the same lines to your suggestion (thus, piggybacking): A
| filter based on principal language of the movie[s].
|
| For example, if I want to discover new movies in German,
| Swedish, Norwegian, etc., I have to know the name, first, for
| the search operation; otherwise, I just movies with the term in
| the title (e.g.: Svenska returns Svenska tv-historier, Svenska
| fall, Svenska Hollywoodfruar, Barncancergalan - Det Svenska
| humorpriset, Svenska Truckers, and Svenska Powerkvinnor).
|
| Which leads me to a suggestion, based on that:
|
| If there's no steam available, don't return the result in the
| search[1]. The whole intent of the site to show "where to
| stream" but if there's no stream, returning a result with the
| message 'Sorry, we couldn't find any streaming information.' is
| a bit of a false positive -- in a "we have it but we don't"
| sense.
|
| [1] - https://whereto.stream/tv/113371
| nervousvarun wrote:
| 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).
| pipes wrote:
| Random question, what VPN is good for location spoofing. My
| current vpn doesn't work for this purpose which is annoying
| _heimdall wrote:
| NordVPN worked like a charm for me when I needed to spoof
| countries for video streaming a couple years ago.
| PastorSalad wrote:
| A lot of streaming services have wised up to dynamic IP
| ranges and will kick you off pretty quick. I use a service
| with a dedicated residential IP in my target country and
| that's worked flawlessly for over 5 years.
| Galanwe wrote:
| 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.
| danilotanic wrote:
| 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).
| miki123211 wrote:
| If you only need a single country, nothing beats a tiny VPS
| company based there. The kind of place where setting the
| VPS up takes a few hours because an employee has to do it
| manually. Those companies are usually small enough to
| escape the notice of streaming giants.
| hashtag-til wrote:
| Changing countries is very useful. You may want to have a look
| on "JustWatch" app.
| foehrenwald wrote:
| How would it work as a NordVPN ad then - probably the only
| reason this site exists, with astroturfing HN comments to
| match...
| tiltowait wrote:
| Really does seem to be the case. I just tried with _The Omen_
| and was given a list of countries. Next to the US was an ad
| to "Stream with NordVPN", suggesting that's the only way to
| view it here. However, I clicked the Hulu button, and it said
| US without the ad. Sure enough, I checked Hulu itself, and
| it's there--no VPN required.
|
| The ad placement is confusing. Hopefully it's not
| intentional. JustWatch may not be as clean and may have ads
| of its own, but its entry for the same movie has zero
| confusion.
| noAnswer wrote:
| German streams only: https://www.werstreamt.es
| cpeterso wrote:
| > 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.
| danilotanic wrote:
| Implementing soon :)
| BerislavLopac wrote:
| JustWatch already has all that.
| bdjsiqoocwk wrote:
| What I'm still waiting is for someone to come up with a way to
| search torrent content from a distributed index.
| keepamovin wrote:
| This is cool, man. Well done. I like this! This will be my go to
| movie search engine when I have a craving to see a particular
| flic
| danilotanic wrote:
| Super glad to hear that, thank you!
| bartkappenburg wrote:
| How do you get you data? Are you using APIs?
| bartkappenburg wrote:
| I think I found a candidate:
| https://developer.themoviedb.org/reference/tv-season-watch-p...
| dewey wrote:
| No, TMDB doesn't have deeplinks to the providers, but based
| on the requests the site is doing it's most likely
| https://www.movieofthenight.com/about/api as it's hotlinking
| the provider icons from there.
| newswasboring wrote:
| Great app, I will use this. But this is it. This is the last
| step. Streaming services have ads already. Now we just need one
| more service which packages these streaming channels together.
| This actually has a good opportunity to be in front of that if we
| could somehow watch different streaming content without leaving
| the app. Get customers locked in, and partner with providers for
| share in subscription.
| leCaptain wrote:
| 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.
| danilotanic wrote:
| I'll definitely be looking more deeply into this. Thank you for
| your feedback!
| vidyesh wrote:
| Netflix's Rebel Moon Part 2 not available anywhere? Pretty sure
| this isn't accurate.
|
| https://whereto.stream/movie/934632
| moviet wrote:
| 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?
| danilotanic wrote:
| The reason "United States" appears under the Netflix selection
| for "Oppenheimer" is solely to indicate that you can still
| watch it from the US if you're using a VPN (in this case, we're
| featuring NordVPN since we can offer a discount for their
| services). However, I do agree that we need a clearer way to
| communicate from the start that "United States" (in this case)
| is included only with additional VPN support.
| daveoc64 wrote:
| I don't see the point in this, sorry.
|
| First of all, it seems to be inaccurate.
|
| If you're going to sell people a VPN so that they can watch
| something, at least make sure that the suggestions are correct.
|
| Oppenheimer is listed as being available in the United Kingdom on
| Netflix - and suggests that I sign up for NordVPN to access it.
| I'm already in the UK, so wouldn't need to do that.
|
| Oh wait, it's not on Netflix in the UK - it's on Now (which is
| also listed to be fair).
| Retr0id wrote:
| 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)
| daveoc64 wrote:
| It's still there for me!
|
| https://imgur.com/a/mQ5tMQO
| Retr0id wrote:
| 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.
| Citizen_Lame wrote:
| Just use justwatch in the UK. It shows Oppenheimer as available
| on Now TV via subscription. Main difference is they directly
| work with service providers unlike this amateur hour.
| https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/oppenheimer
|
| Getting accurate info and do the research so you know local
| streaming landscape should be the first step. Creating simple
| UI and web app is the last step in projects like this.
| frereubu wrote:
| Bit of immediate feedback - United Kingdom is out of alphabetical
| order, presumably because it's filed under Great Britain or GB.
| People from the UK always go for United Kingdom, so keep the
| label but update the sorting.
|
| Edit: also, personal preference, but I really don't like it when
| there isn't a space on the page where my mouse isn't triggering
| some kind of rollover, in this case between the movie patches. I
| may be in the minority on that though.
| danilotanic wrote:
| We'll be updating the sorting order and work on enhancing the
| overall UX. I appreciate the input!
| throwaway743 wrote:
| I was gonna suggest adding whatever APIs putlocker-like sites are
| using, but then again, pretty sure, those sites don't have geo
| restrictions
| frizlab wrote:
| I use the Apple TV app. It's amazing for that.
| code_runner wrote:
| This is unbelievably great. Already made use of it.
| danilotanic wrote:
| Much appreciated, thank you!
| tqwhite wrote:
| 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!?
| danilotanic wrote:
| Really appreciate the kind words! And yes, there's definitely a
| lot of room for improvement when it comes to displaying the
| correct information, which is one of the top priorities moving
| forward.
| willhackett wrote:
| 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!
| danilotanic wrote:
| Thank you for your feedback! Your suggestion is among the first
| improvements we'll aim to implement on the platform.
| jesprenj wrote:
| I'd like this but for piracy.
| Jonovono wrote:
| Stremio+RD
| JaceLightning wrote:
| Justwatch.com
| LudwigNagasena wrote:
| If you are going to do something illegal to watch it anyway, why
| not just torrent it at that point?
| danilotanic wrote:
| 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.
| nottorp wrote:
| 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.
| me_me_me wrote:
| > Realizing the need for a streamlined solution, I created one.
| Now you can effortlessly find your desired content and simplify
| your entertainment journey beyond borders.
|
| Same here, but over year ago I just switched to private torrents.
|
| I am done with platforms throwing obstacles for me to navigate in
| order to watch a show. Those companies can compete with torrents.
| Early netflix and HBO were winning subscriptions from torrent
| users. Because it was more convenient. Now they started fighting
| each other at cost of convenience - my convinience - so fuck you
| until you fix your service.
| danilotanic wrote:
| I definitely understand your struggle, which is why I created
| whereto.stream. We hope to find even more effective ways to
| help people stream or at least understand how to navigate these
| and similar obstacles that are preventing them from doing so.
| Jonovono wrote:
| Are there people that arn't using Stremio+RD?
| tikkun wrote:
| Another idea: let me see what's newest to streaming that has good
| reviews. And what's about to come out.
|
| I currently use the rotten tomatoes new to streaming page for
| this; but I wish it was better.
| danilotanic wrote:
| I've seen this request/idea pop up more than a few times now,
| so I'm jotting it down as one of the features we'll consider
| implementing sooner rather than later. Thank you for your
| feedback!
| soygem wrote:
| I expected pirate streaming sites.
| olekenneth wrote:
| It shows a lot of movies available in prime video for Norway
| which is wrong.
| equalls wrote:
| So cool!
| fandorin wrote:
| 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.
| danilotanic wrote:
| Oh that is definitely on our roadmap and something I've been
| heavily thinking about. Stay tuned!
| leetrout wrote:
| It had been fun to watch this idea come and go over the years.
|
| An acquaintance of mine worked at the defunct Vunify
|
| https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/vunify
| ochrist wrote:
| How does this compare to PlayPilot?
| fernly wrote:
| Suggestion: 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.
| danilotanic wrote:
| I'm noting this one down. Great suggestion!
| autoexec wrote:
| My 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
| Suppafly wrote:
| >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.
| danilotanic wrote:
| To better understand your use case, I'm wondering how you
| would like to navigate an A-Z list. Is there a specific
| reason for a full list, or would you rather be able to search
| and display only content that is available on your service
| selection?
| Suppafly wrote:
| I want to be able to select 'I have Hulu, Netflix, Apple+,
| Amazon' and get an A-Z list of every movie/series I have
| access to, and then be able to filter that using tags or
| categories. I don't ever want to see stuff that I'd have to
| pay extra for, like Hulu if I decide to pay extra for
| Showtime, or Amazon if I decide to pay an extra $5 to rent
| it.
| danilotanic wrote:
| Gotcha, that makes sense! Thanks for providing additional
| info.
| danilotanic wrote:
| We'll be implementing as a quick follow-up :)
| deegles wrote:
| Features 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.
| danilotanic wrote:
| This is one of our top feature requests and we'll be
| implementing it very soon. Thanks for your feedback.
| droptablemain wrote:
| Minor issue but you've got a little horizontal wiggle/overflow
| going on.
|
| Seems to be connected to this:
|
| <main class="flex min-h-screen flex-col"> <div class="flex-1
| w-screen flex flex-col">
|
| The interior w-screen class element is setting 100vw inside of a
| container that's not 100vw, leading to an overflow
| danilotanic wrote:
| Noted, thanks for the feedback!
| askonomm wrote:
| 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 5 different places and
| own nothing in the end.
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