Simkl: It’s Time to Build a Better TV, Anime, Movie Watchlist and Tracker

by skipass • 12 years ago

39 20 12 years ago

I 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.

cake• 12 years ago

At first I thought it was about a torrent tracker...

unwind• 12 years ago

Also they sound very arrogant, and have a blantant typo on their landing page. Not impressed.

torarnv• 12 years ago

How is this different from http://trakt.tv ?

skipass4• 12 years ago

As I can see. They track PC and try to do the same with online content. Also, maybe better watched list.

egil• 12 years ago

The kickstarter was posted yesterday. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7737134 for the previous discussion.

nikolak• 12 years ago

I 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.

skipass4• 12 years ago

Trakt

- 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• 12 years ago

Detecting 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• 12 years ago

If 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• 12 years ago

Though 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.)

skipass4• 12 years 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• 12 years ago

I'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• 12 years ago

Always interesting to see the stats on those bitly links, just append a + to the end of the url. http://bit.ly/TVTracker+

guillermin• 12 years ago

Third time this project is on HN frontpage in 2 days... and it's nothing special. They should sell their online marketing knowledge instead.

ritonlajoie• 12 years ago

one more time ?

SchizoDuckie2• 12 years ago

Why 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 ). 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?

skipass4• 12 years ago

How 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

SchizoDuckie2• 12 years ago

Much 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• 12 years ago

http://watched.li/ is awesome to track tv series

Simkl: It’s Time to Build a Better TV, Anime, Movie Watchlist and Tracker

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