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by SchizoDuckie 4417 days ago
Why would you pay money for something that's a definite nice to have? Who pays money to have their stuff tracked?

I've built DuckieTV for this (and more, http://schizoduckie.github.io/DuckieTV ). No need for a kickstarter, no need for donations, and no need to automatically hook all those services into eachother. You just click an icon and it's marked the thing as watched.

Am I really missing something obvious that this product does?
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skipass 4417 days ago
How often do you forget to click on your icon? To be able to do it automatically should be much nicer, don't you think?

You don't pay money for tracked stuff. You pay for the ability to has this opportunity + your personal profile, lists, recomendation etc.

Just imho

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SchizoDuckie 4416 days ago
Much nicer is a really big word for some scrobbling and suggestions.

I pay money for tracked stuff you say, but they're basically tracking what trakt.tv already does, hooking into their recommendation engine, and then serving the result in some nice sauce.

I think marketingwise this is brilliant, but I would never pay money for it. As said above, this is a nice to have feature on top of a lot of other things. Content availability being the most important IMO.

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