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I'm tempted to hack out a website real quick, you'll search for a show and it'll tell you when the next season's coming and on which service. And then you can

I'm tempted to hack out a website real quick, you'll search for a show and it'll tell you when the next season's coming and on which service. And then you can schedule your entire year around which individual months you want to be subscribed to say Netflix or Hulu. Maybe call it Go binge me

mushufasa 4y ago
linke this? https://www.canistream.it https://www.canistream.it
cplantijn 4y ago
Sounds fantastic but is that information even publicly available? Sometimes new seasons of shows drop with little notice, if any.
andsoitis 4y ago
I thought Netflix sends you an email if a new season of a show you enjoy comes out.
- neogodless 4y ago
  Wow, even for Hulu and Disney+ and Paramount and HBO Max? That is quite kind and unexpected.
  - andsoitis 4y ago
    Ouch.
    - neogodless 4y ago
      Sorry - sarcasm isn't the best spirit of Hacker News curiosity. I should've found a kinder way to indicate that the grandparent comment was about all services, not specific to Netflix.
lopis 4y ago
I already do this organically. When friends tell me a season of X or Y is coming I pay for Netflix. I imagine if enough people do this, companies will counter-act by making certain shows only available to loyal users. "This is a Platinum Plus show; you need at least platinum level 3 to watch this; watch 100 hours to level up!"
- frumper 4y ago
  I think the counter would be to spread it out more. One a week on a 10 week show gets 3 months. Throw a couple 2 week breaks in the middle of a season and you squeeze an extra month out.
beached_whale 4y ago
They exist, such as https://www.justwatch.com https://www.justwatch.com
deanc 4y ago
This might work for the biggest shows on HBO etc. but even some of Netflix’s biggest hits only get announced a month or so before. Not all. But some.
jaden 4y ago
https://reelgood.com/ https://reelgood.com/ works well for this.
bee_rider 4y ago
Since (as others have noted) there are already a couple services like this, what about something like: The user sets up a profile with a list of shows they like, and the website tells which streaming service is the best one to subscribe to. Extra credit if it has an option for "I prefer shows which are in the process of being released weekly/I count shows I can binge all at once." And -- it is a bit of a stretch, but maybe "binge-o" is a good name.
- IceMetalPunk 4y ago
  ShowRSS + uTorrent has worked for me. I know, I know, "but illegal/the moneys". I watch like... 1 show on Netflix (2 now with Sandman), 1 show on the CW (soon to be 0, as it's the Flash), 1 show on HBO Max (Harley Quinn), etc. Paying for an entire service (or cable) just because I like one show they offer is ridiculous. The closest I'd come to doing it is Disney+ because of all the Marvel content, but even then I'm paying for access to a shit-ton of Disney content I couldn't care any less about. (I currently do pay for Netflix, mostly because I subbed to support their pickup of Lucifer and then decided to stay subbed until Umbrella Academy dies.) Basically, what I'm saying is, as long as every company wants to withhold the content I like behind a paywall the size of tons of content I don't want, ShowRSS + uTorrent = the pirate's life for me. Yo-ho. (Legitimately, if I was able to pay for just the individual shows I watch, I would pay for 100% of them. But no one offers that option, so... shrug )
  - bee_rider 4y ago
    I never got into the whole piracy thing (despite growing up in it's heyday), but I haven't thought much about the ethics of it and certainly wouldn't judge people who do it. Mostly the "cost" of staying up to date with best piracy practices doesn't seem worth it, to me. I happen to know the price of hulu+disney+ is around $20 currently (because I just canceled my subscription, haha). I vaguely recall that is pretty close to the retail cost of a season of a show, around a decade ago, I think. So it seems like an OK deal in that context -- I watched way more than one season of a single show on the two services, per month (but like, I want to cut down on my passive content consumption anyway).

mushufasa 4y ago

linke this? https://www.canistream.it https://www.canistream.it

cplantijn 4y ago

Sounds fantastic but is that information even publicly available? Sometimes new seasons of shows drop with little notice, if any.

andsoitis 4y ago

I thought Netflix sends you an email if a new season of a show you enjoy comes out.

neogodless 4y ago
Wow, even for Hulu and Disney+ and Paramount and HBO Max? That is quite kind and unexpected.
- andsoitis 4y ago
  Ouch.
  - neogodless 4y ago
    Sorry - sarcasm isn't the best spirit of Hacker News curiosity. I should've found a kinder way to indicate that the grandparent comment was about all services, not specific to Netflix.

lopis 4y ago

I already do this organically. When friends tell me a season of X or Y is coming I pay for Netflix. I imagine if enough people do this, companies will counter-act by making certain shows only available to loyal users. "This is a Platinum Plus show; you need at least platinum level 3 to watch this; watch 100 hours to level up!"

frumper 4y ago
I think the counter would be to spread it out more. One a week on a 10 week show gets 3 months. Throw a couple 2 week breaks in the middle of a season and you squeeze an extra month out.

beached_whale 4y ago

They exist, such as https://www.justwatch.com https://www.justwatch.com

deanc 4y ago

This might work for the biggest shows on HBO etc. but even some of Netflix’s biggest hits only get announced a month or so before. Not all. But some.

jaden 4y ago

https://reelgood.com/ https://reelgood.com/ works well for this.

bee_rider 4y ago

Since (as others have noted) there are already a couple services like this, what about something like: The user sets up a profile with a list of shows they like, and the website tells which streaming service is the best one to subscribe to. Extra credit if it has an option for "I prefer shows which are in the process of being released weekly/I count shows I can binge all at once." And -- it is a bit of a stretch, but maybe "binge-o" is a good name.

IceMetalPunk 4y ago
ShowRSS + uTorrent has worked for me. I know, I know, "but illegal/the moneys". I watch like... 1 show on Netflix (2 now with Sandman), 1 show on the CW (soon to be 0, as it's the Flash), 1 show on HBO Max (Harley Quinn), etc. Paying for an entire service (or cable) just because I like one show they offer is ridiculous. The closest I'd come to doing it is Disney+ because of all the Marvel content, but even then I'm paying for access to a shit-ton of Disney content I couldn't care any less about. (I currently do pay for Netflix, mostly because I subbed to support their pickup of Lucifer and then decided to stay subbed until Umbrella Academy dies.) Basically, what I'm saying is, as long as every company wants to withhold the content I like behind a paywall the size of tons of content I don't want, ShowRSS + uTorrent = the pirate's life for me. Yo-ho. (Legitimately, if I was able to pay for just the individual shows I watch, I would pay for 100% of them. But no one offers that option, so... shrug )
- bee_rider 4y ago
  I never got into the whole piracy thing (despite growing up in it's heyday), but I haven't thought much about the ethics of it and certainly wouldn't judge people who do it. Mostly the "cost" of staying up to date with best piracy practices doesn't seem worth it, to me. I happen to know the price of hulu+disney+ is around $20 currently (because I just canceled my subscription, haha). I vaguely recall that is pretty close to the retail cost of a season of a show, around a decade ago, I think. So it seems like an OK deal in that context -- I watched way more than one season of a single show on the two services, per month (but like, I want to cut down on my passive content consumption anyway).