Need feedback on indian webseries aggregator
need honest feedback on the
https://indianwebseries.tk/
idea - single place to browse web series from multiple ott and free webseries creators
any and all views/feedback/suggestions/advice is warm heartedly welcome.
made it out of bordom
Love this idea! I am a web series creator myself and can see much value in a having a place where it can get more exposure.
thanks @storbang for your kind words.
You are welcome. Do you know of any Indian action/adventure web series I could check out? If they incorporate comedy, even better!
also i did shut the site down as there was no traction. do you think i should restart it ?
i would recommend family man to you if you have not seen. Its really good action adventure series. it has some comedy as well. : )
Family Man looks interesting!
I'm also interested in smaller, independent web series. A frustration I'm finding is that searching for "web series", on any platform, youtube, rumble, etc, returns mostly pornography. How did that happen?!
I'm not sure if I'm in the minority as someone who wants to find independent web series that aren't porn, but if there were a site that helped me find them, that would solve a big problem for me.
thats nice @storbang, what type of information are you looking for? are you looking to watch the series at a single place or getting a catalog of web series or are you looking to get information like imdb type ?
Haven't really thought about it but if there was listing service of different web series to check out, perhaps categorized by genre and other tags, with a brief description and link to whatever platform it's hosted on to view it, I imagine that would be useful.
with your feedback i got the motivation to rescrape few sites and now i am planning to recreate frontend
Very cool (it appears I can't reply to your last comment so I will to this one). I haven't heard of many of these platforms in the list. Are they specific to the Indian market?
That's awesome @palashkulsh! Man I wish I had some money to contribute to the R&D. I imagine the biggest challenge would be filtering out the porn sites, especially if you're scaping with an automated method.
Very interested to see what you come up with! And feel free to hit me up any time if you want to run anything by a second set of eyes.
thanks @storbang, actually i have taken a very basic approach. I am keeping a list of ott and webseries sites. and i am writing a custom scraper for them only. This way the content that is scraped is high quality with minimal noise. the challenge that i am facing is the ui that i had earlier was not good . I am searching for some no/low code builder over mongo, that i can get the data back there in open. This is web series count per ott provider that i have scraped. around 10k series (actual numbers are going to be less as some data would be polluted.)
[
{ _id: 'sonyliv', total: 674 },
{ _id: 'tvfplay', total: 54 },
{ _id: 'youtube', total: 1259 },
{ _id: 'altbalaji', total: 106 },
{ _id: 'hotstar', total: 2134 },
{ _id: 'jiocinema', total: 1495 },
{ _id: 'aha', total: 35 },
{ _id: 'ullu', total: 2571 },
{ _id: 'voot', total: 1196 },
{ _id: 'zee5', total: 527 },
{ _id: null, total: 6 },
{ _id: 'hoichoi', total: 219 }
]