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Simkl: It’s Time to Build a Better TV, Anime, Movie Watchlist and Tracker
- SideburnsOfDoom 12y agoI hear the words "It's time to build a better ... tracker" and right away the author is at a disadvantage - they have an uphill battle to convince me again that there is a benefit to being tracked.
- torarnv 12y agoHow is this different from http://trakt.tv http://trakt.tv ?
- skipass 12y agoAs I can see. They track PC and try to do the same with online content. Also, maybe better watched list.
- egil 12y agoThe kickstarter was posted yesterday. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7737134 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7737134 for the previous discussion.
- nikolak 12y agoI don't see how this is different and/or better than trakt.tv. And what the hell does "automatically track what you're watching" mean. 3rd party software? Like xbmc+trakt plugin? I also don't like how wherever you click on that website, including the search box, you're redirected to kickstarter campaign.
- skipass 12y agoTrakt - doesn't detect what you are watching on PC, - doesn't detect what you are watching onlie(HULU, Netflix), - doesn't has Anime DB(as I know they just parse TheTVDB). Just saing what I've read from their campaign and retelling my comment below. P.S. Yes, redirect from search input is pretty annoying
- tallanvor 12y agoDetecting what you are watching on Hulu or Netflix is a stretch goal for them and according to their description it would only be for Chrome. Right now it's limited to avi, mkv, mp4, m4v files you watch on your computer.
- dewey 12y agoIf you are using xbmc or plex on your mac/pc there's a plugin to scrobble to trakt, not really a feature to set them apart.
- mallin 12y agoThough it's certainly a valuable number to know, I'm not sure a huge "TIME WASTED WATCHING TV: x DAYS" is what people want from a TV watchlist. (Whereas this would be a valuable feature in a productivity app.)
- skipass 12y ago"TIME WASTED" is one of their feature. I think much more valuable will be knowledge what you have to watch next and what you have missed.
- Spittie 12y agoI'd though so, but I have a friend that run a similar site, and he told me that this was one of the most request features. Sure, the choice of wording is unfortunate. "Wasted" is a negative word, I think "Time spent watching TV" would work better.
- shaunpud 12y agoAlways interesting to see the stats on those bitly links, just append a + to the end of the url. http://bit.ly/TVTracker+ http://bit.ly/TVTracker+
- guillermin 12y agoThird time this project is on HN frontpage in 2 days... and it's nothing special. They should sell their online marketing knowledge instead.
- ritonlajoie 12y agoone more time ?
- SchizoDuckie 12y agoWhy would you pay money for something that's a definite nice to have? Who pays money to have their stuff tracked? I've built DuckieTV for this (and more, http://schizoduckie.github.io/DuckieTV http://schizoduckie.github.io/DuckieTV ). No need for a kickstarter, no need for donations, and no need to automatically hook all those services into eachother. You just click an icon and it's marked the thing as watched. Am I really missing something obvious that this product does?
- skipass 12y agoHow often do you forget to click on your icon? To be able to do it automatically should be much nicer, don't you think? You don't pay money for tracked stuff. You pay for the ability to has this opportunity + your personal profile, lists, recomendation etc. Just imho
- SchizoDuckie 12y agoMuch nicer is a really big word for some scrobbling and suggestions. I pay money for tracked stuff you say, but they're basically tracking what trakt.tv already does, hooking into their recommendation engine, and then serving the result in some nice sauce. I think marketingwise this is brilliant, but I would never pay money for it. As said above, this is a nice to have feature on top of a lot of other things. Content availability being the most important IMO.
- philfrasty 12y agohttp://watched.li/ http://watched.li/ is awesome to track tv series