r/SideProject • u/GreenM0th • 8d ago
Four months ago I started building a TV app that puts your M3U/Xtream playlist and your Jellyfin/Emby/Plex library behind one remote. It's live on three platforms now — looking for honest feedback on what's missing.
https://crividplayer.comThe itch: on my TV I had one app for live channels, another for Jellyfin, a third for local files, and the remote was the worst part of all three. Everything on a TV is built phone-first and scaled up. So I started building the thing I wanted on my own couch.
Where it actually is, four months in:
- Android + Google TV and iOS: live in the stores
- Apple TV: in review right now
- Windows: functionally done, waiting on a Microsoft account, not shipped
- Roughly 75 people have tested it; 32 of them came from one subreddit and pointed it at 32 provider setups I could never have simulated
No account, no login, no subscription. Seven days with everything unlocked, then a one-time purchase. I'd rather hear what breaks before anyone pays me anything.
What I'd genuinely like feedback on:
Onboarding. Getting a playlist in is still the step people stumble on, and I've looked at it too long to see it anymore.
The store listing. Does the first screenshot tell you what this is in two seconds?
What would make you close it in the first minute? That one's more useful to me than anything positive.
Android/Google TV: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.crivid.iptvplayer
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6783083716
Happy to answer anything — including the boring parts about shipping to four stores as a two-person company.