Comments on “Strema
Olivier El Mekki@oelmekki · maker
My first reaction was "ok, but what about suggestions?", and then I saw it actually leverages IMDB "related" feature, very clever! It's not close of a "suggested for you" feature, but given there are just so many movies released every month, it sounds perfectly fine. One thing that would be really cool is if it was able to "merge" access to streaming servic… See more
Eon@eonpilot · iOS dev @ github.com/eonist
@oelmekki What this guy said
Dan Moore@toobulkeh · Vaporware
@oelmekki how has no one done merge properly? Is it that difficult to stay up to date with their catalogs?
Olivier El Mekki@oelmekki · maker
@toobulkeh I did a quick check, it turns out netflix has shut down its public api a few years ago, so this certainly is making things difficult. There's a website called "netflix roulette" which randomly selects a movie from catalog, so it's certainly achievable (my guess is that they rely on a undocumented api, so it should implement some caching mechanism … See more