How do you find out what is happening somewhere right now?

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I'm the developer of , so take this with that in mind. I'm asking because I want to know if the problem I built for is a real one.

When something happens in another country, I want to see it: local TV, a street webcam, the news clips from that day. What I usually end up doing is opening YouTube, guessing the channel name in another language, and finding that half the streams are blocked outside that country.

So I put it on a 3D globe. You click a place and get the last 24 hours of news video from that area, live city webcams (about 620 right now), or that country's official live TV channels (647 channels from 64 countries, all official YouTube streams). Each channel shows whether it plays outside its home country, and that is checked every day: right now 454 of the 557 checked channels play worldwide.

It's free and has no sign-up:

Two questions for you:

1.When you want to see what is going on in another country, where do you actually go?

2.What would make you come back to a site like this more than once?

It launches on Product Hunt on October 20. I'd rather hear what is broken before then.

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