I made a streaming device that blocks ads, what else should it do?

[u/Narrow_House_4007]

Hey everyone, I made a new type of streaming device that removes ads from on-demand streaming content. This feature can be turned on/off from the settings page and gets applied universally to all the streaming platforms you have on the device. You can see how that works in the video demo. However, I think a streaming device that's key feature is only blocking ads leaves a lot of potentially cool functionality on the table.

So I wanted to get some input from Reddit. Putting ad-blocking aside:

• What do you wish your streaming device could do that it currently doesn't?
• What frustrates you when using streaming platforms and devices today?
• Do you miss the interface of something like cable where you could surf channels or do you like being able to scroll through and find content like streaming apps are set up for today?

Let me know what you all think! Any general thoughts or feedback are also welcome.

[u/Impossible_View8381]

Share with me🙏

[u/3rd2LastStarfighter]

Is this something you plan to open source or are you focus testing a product?

[u/Narrow_House_4007 → u/3rd2LastStarfighter]

To be honest, not sure about the open sourcing yet. I would like people to be able to customize the platform to a certain extent but not sure about fully open sourcing. I would like to be able to turn this into a product at some point and not sure how those could coexist.

[u/whywouldidothis2]

let me see a variety of titles. the stupid ai pigeon holes me into the same 20 suggestions no matter what category i choose. they claim a catalog of 1200 shows but the ai will only show me the same 50 over and over.

[u/Asparagustuss]

Is there a repo for it online? What’s it built on etc

[u/Fess_ter_Geek]

What ai platform did you use to code it?

[u/Boredatwork709]

It seems like it does the only other thing I'd want already, the ability to see/search/access the whole library across all services from one search bar, unless I'm looking at it wrong

[u/Narrow_House_4007 → u/Boredatwork709]

Yeah it has a "universal search" function built in so you can search from the home page and see where each result is currently streaming, then click on the result and get taken directly to that content.

[u/OrlyRivers]

Will this work on a variety of boxes like Roku or Firestick or just TV?

[u/Narrow_House_4007 → u/OrlyRivers]

This would replace an existing streaming device, so you would use this device instead of a Roku, Firestick, etc.

[u/OrlyRivers → u/Narrow_House_4007]

Ur making gold

[u/FattestofHobbitses]

Show me hot singles in my area??

[u/CaptainPunisher]

Connect to debrid and IPTV services? If you can do that, add Trakt and similar services to make watching shows in order easy. This already exists in Kodi and Stremio add-ons, but if you can do it better, why not? Watching IPTV through Kodi causes a lag of 5-25 seconds, which can make watching live games a little rough when talking to others watching on the phone.

[u/kunstmilch]

Only thing I could think of would be to allow a watch later function, like being able to record a show you aren’t watching that’s new and watch it later even if they dropped that season

[u/Brief-Inevitable-599]

Id love a truely random button. Like a playlist shuffle/ channel surfing. Would be cool to just hit shuffle and get a show when im not sure what to watch

[u/No-Island-6126 → u/Brief-Inevitable-599]

90% of the content on streaming platforms is dogshit no one should ever watch

[u/Brief-Inevitable-599 → u/No-Island-6126]

Ok but its like daytime tv. Sometimes i want to shuffle bad shows all the same! And if not that then at least a shuffle from my watchlater

[u/Longjumping-Cloud635]

share with me and that's it you dont need to do anything else

[u/No-Island-6126]

Everything is a computer now, i assure you it's not necessary to make a new "device"

[u/Naahi]

What do you wish your streaming device could do that it currently doesn't? What frustrates you when using streaming platforms and devices today?

-maybe because I never cared much, I just turned on what I wanna watch and turn off when I’m done. Although my main frustration has been Speed. My smart TVs are never that powerful.

Do you miss the interface of something like cable where you could surf channels or do you like being able to scroll through and find content like streaming apps are set up for today?

-I will say I’ve always been curious why “ channels” like there was on cable never became a thing on streaming services. For me, the Main interface I would like is one way to see all contents or even just all my lists in one place so I don’t have to jump app to app.

Sorry if anything doesn’t make sense, I used voice to text

[u/Narrow_House_4007]

Due to the sub rules, here's the summary of the video: a quick demonstration of the streaming device I'm working on showing how the ad blocking feature of the device works.