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http://dreadtv.com http://dreadtv.com Tracks my/your favorite TV shows. I got tired of googling "Dr Who episodes" whenever I wanted to know if the next half-s

http://dreadtv.com http://dreadtv.com Tracks my/your favorite TV shows. I got tired of googling "Dr Who episodes" whenever I wanted to know if the next half-season was starting soon, or to see whether any more episodes remained before a hiatus. So I built a thing which monitors the data from Wikipedia episode list pages, normalizes it, and lets you easily view what's airing recently / soon. Also sends an (optional) email each week listing the upcoming week's schedule of my shows, plus a list of new / resuming shows. Generally the only thing I need to do manually is to add primary network feeds. The show and episode feeds are scraped from there, with noise filtered out. One of the coolest things is that it almost entirely heals itself -- canonical URLs and redirects are used to ensure consistent feed resolution, deprecated feeds are auto-removed after X time so long as it's a clear deprecation scenario, renamed shows are auto-updated, and an admin dashboard shows me stats about expected categories and outliers, so that I can easily investigate logic gaps from time to time.

Semaphor 11y ago
There is followshows.com, I've been using it for over a year now and it has quite some features including an Android app. Do you wanna pitch your site vs them?
- dreadpirate 11y ago
  Yeah, we solve slightly different problems -- they focus on feature breadth and syndication coverage, I prefer data breadth (lots more anime in particular) and original airings only. Personally I'm not really a fan of watching TV on my computer, or of trying to track online what episodes I've seen (ends up being more anal-retentively stressful than helpful)... so those features end up being just noise overhead for my tastes. They've got a really pretty site for sure. :-)
  - Semaphor 11y ago
    Ah, thanks. I need tracking what I watched because I watch way too many shows (and barely any anime). And I have to watch stuff on my computer as I'm not in the country those shows are aired. > They've got a really pretty site for sure. :-) Well… I'd prefer your design with their features :D

Semaphor 11y ago

There is followshows.com, I've been using it for over a year now and it has quite some features including an Android app. Do you wanna pitch your site vs them?

dreadpirate 11y ago
Yeah, we solve slightly different problems -- they focus on feature breadth and syndication coverage, I prefer data breadth (lots more anime in particular) and original airings only. Personally I'm not really a fan of watching TV on my computer, or of trying to track online what episodes I've seen (ends up being more anal-retentively stressful than helpful)... so those features end up being just noise overhead for my tastes. They've got a really pretty site for sure. :-)
- Semaphor 11y ago
  Ah, thanks. I need tracking what I watched because I watch way too many shows (and barely any anime). And I have to watch stuff on my computer as I'm not in the country those shows are aired. > They've got a really pretty site for sure. :-) Well… I'd prefer your design with their features :D