Comment by kstenerud
3 days ago
I'm currently building a Plex competitor, minus the rug pull. I'll be opening a beta soon, and I'm wondering what the interest is from the hn crowd.
Basically: easy self hosting, includes a discovery server you can run on your VPS, all the usual stuff you expect from this kind of software, and free forever.
The only thing I'd charge for is my own discovery service which gives you convenience because you don't have to host your own. Any feature that can be hosted yourself remains free forever.
What is the benefit compared to Jellyfin?
- Single binary
- I've addressed the most common complaints and unfixed issues in all of the competitors
- "Watch together" mode because my gf is stuck in another country for the next few months. Includes voice chat and will soon have tv casting to watch on the big screen and chat on the phone.
- all the hole punching tricks to get access from remote if you want it (or just keep it local only if you'd rather not)
- more features I'll talk about later - out of time atm
Could give it a try, currently happy with Jellyfin. What clients will you support?
Early beta will be web browser only, but I'll be adding shims to support existing clients (for the functionality they support). Ultimately I'll be adding native clients but those are some time off.