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http://www.overseer.tv http://www.overseer.tv I built a show tracker just for me (it's not nearly where I want it to be, so I don't share it anywhere, eg. curr

http://www.overseer.tv http://www.overseer.tv I built a show tracker just for me (it's not nearly where I want it to be, so I don't share it anywhere, eg. currently my show database is out of date I need to see what broke my cron tonight. no ssl cert, no optimization at all I don't even know if my js is minified tbh, etc). I am the only active user http://www.overseer.tv/user/smt http://www.overseer.tv/user/smt and I built this because I watch a shit ton of shows and I often forget when premieres come, or what episode I left off on. My site is basically one click to mark a show/season/episode "watched" and I have a calendar and upcoming section, which is all I wanted from many other sites I tried before creating my own. I host this on an EC2 instance for 29$ a month, and my own usage alone makes it worth it to me haha.

WrtCdEvrydy 9y ago
That sounds really cool. Is it open source?
- stefantheard 9y ago
  Sure is: https://github.com/smtheard/ShowTracker https://github.com/smtheard/ShowTracker It's not too pretty in there, but it is functional (arguably) haha.
  - WrtCdEvrydy 9y ago
    Doesn't matter, I'll just toss it into Flynn.
DKnoll 9y ago
Either this is the worst-scaling web application ever made or you are massively overpaying/overspeccing your VPS. Going to assume the latter.
- stefantheard 9y ago
  It's the latter. I don't know why it costs so much, this is the first time I have ever hosted anything so I didn't realize I was overpaying. The way it was phrased I thought I had a year free and then it would be 29$/month but they just started charging me immediately. I haven't had time to look into it. I'll investigate tonight, thanks for pointing it out.
  - DKnoll 9y ago
    If you want to try another (cheaper) service I personally use Lunanode.com for most things. If you're willing to take a risk with availability find something on lowendbox.com.
  - tomascot 9y ago
    OVH works pretty well and you can get a small VPS for less than USD5
MikeKusold 9y ago
Have you heard of https://trakt.tv/ https://trakt.tv/ before? It seems to have similar functionality.
- stefantheard 9y ago
  No I hadn't but looking at it, this is essentially what I wanted. Really wish I had found this before I built overseer lol. That's a great looking site, I'll give it a try.

WrtCdEvrydy 9y ago

That sounds really cool. Is it open source?

stefantheard 9y ago
Sure is: https://github.com/smtheard/ShowTracker https://github.com/smtheard/ShowTracker It's not too pretty in there, but it is functional (arguably) haha.
- WrtCdEvrydy 9y ago
  Doesn't matter, I'll just toss it into Flynn.

DKnoll 9y ago

Either this is the worst-scaling web application ever made or you are massively overpaying/overspeccing your VPS. Going to assume the latter.

stefantheard 9y ago
It's the latter. I don't know why it costs so much, this is the first time I have ever hosted anything so I didn't realize I was overpaying. The way it was phrased I thought I had a year free and then it would be 29$/month but they just started charging me immediately. I haven't had time to look into it. I'll investigate tonight, thanks for pointing it out.
- DKnoll 9y ago
  If you want to try another (cheaper) service I personally use Lunanode.com for most things. If you're willing to take a risk with availability find something on lowendbox.com.
- tomascot 9y ago
  OVH works pretty well and you can get a small VPS for less than USD5

MikeKusold 9y ago

Have you heard of https://trakt.tv/ https://trakt.tv/ before? It seems to have similar functionality.

stefantheard 9y ago
No I hadn't but looking at it, this is essentially what I wanted. Really wish I had found this before I built overseer lol. That's a great looking site, I'll give it a try.