Unfinished TV Web App Looking for New Owner

What is WeGot.tv?

I’ve been working on a web app in my spare time for a while called wegot.tv, which is intended to help people track their TV viewing online. I recently joined the team at Heyzap and my focus has shifted away from wegot.tv, so I’m looking for someone to pick up the reigns and take it forward!

You can see the current state of the the site at:
http://beta.wegot.tv

Here’s my user profile, with the TV shows I like and which episodes I’ve recently watched:
http://beta.wegot.tv/users/loopj

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The Grand Vision ;)

I designed wegot.tv for people who want to get more out of their tv viewing experience. I typically watch TV that’s streamed, downloaded or purchased rather than broadcast, and tracking which episode of my shows I last watched was becoming difficult and annoying, so that’s how wegot.tv started. You can select a bunch of your favourite shows, add them to your profile, and then mark each episode as watched as you viewed them. I also wanted to know when the next episode of my favourite shows would be available to download, so I built in a customised TV schedule.

My plan was to use the collected data about viewing preferences to recommend new tv shows to users, provide streamed episodes of their favourite shows right in the site (from hulu, bbc iplayer, etc) and to provide links to iTunes, Amazon etc to purchase episodes.

There are tons of possibilities and opportunities in this space, and given more time I would have loved to build them all!

How Can You Help?

I’m looking for someone who has a similar vision, and a passion for TV, who would love to take this project on and grow it. If you want to make this into a business that would be awesome, but even as a hobby it would be great to see something I started blossom into a popular site. I’m sure there’s at least one person out there apart from me who would find this useful!

I’d transfer ownership of the project (code, domains, art etc).

Tech Details

I built the site using the django framework, TV show data is fetched (with permission) from a great site called TheTVDB, I’m using a MySQL database, and various python scripts for scraping and data collection. I own wegot.tv and wegottv.com. All of the project code is in a subversion repository.

I’m Interested, What Now?

I really want to find someone who will take this project somewhere, as it would be a shame to see this work and idea go to waste. If you think this is you, get in touch.

Hit the comments below and tell me a little about yourself and your vision for the site if you were to take it over, leave a way to contact you and I’ll be in touch!

Alternatively, send an email to wegottv at loopj.com.

Posted in Django, Python | Comments
  • Joe Blossom
    It looks like you have a really awesome idea going, and I'd love to see it progress.

    I may be interested in taking it over. I'm currently a CompSci/Econ student (dual BSc degree) at Michigan State University (Graduating this coming May)

    I'm not sure exactly how you'd like to proceed or gather more info about me or my ideas, but if you are interested let me know!

    My email address is blossom3 [at] msu.edu
  • Cliff
    Hi James.

    Even as is, this is such a useful site. My friends and I like to watch shows together, but we have to coordinate to see what each of us hasn't seen yet.

    This is perfect for that.

    Thanks for what you've done with it.
  • Nice gesture, never waste a line of code.

    You may consider creating a FairSoftware project and give away most of the virtual equity to whoever wants to pick it up.
  • Ashley Williams
    Wow, I've had exactly this on my to-do list forever…shame it's in Python (I'm a ruby guy), else I'd jump on it for sure!

    But I'll definitely be keeping track of this, whoever the new owner is — I'm currently in the middle of X-Files season 4 (or 5?), in the middle of some season of Smallville (around 4...I think), and god knows where in the middle of Dexter, so this'd be brilliant! Nice work!

    Maybe you could open source it? It'd be a shame for somebody to take ownership, and get bored before it was finished… :)
  • domenkoar
    Hey, I have a similar site with limited usability that will soon have theTVDB support, maybe we could merge some things.

    www.tvnext.si is an opensource project implemented in pylons with postgresql DB backend.
  • Hey domenkoar, you might find this useful then:
    http://loopj.com/2009/05/06/python-api-for-thet...
  • domenkoar
    hey, thanks. That will indeed come in handy. Good luck with the project=)
  • walesmd
    Wow - I really like the idea and would love to see something similar take off, unfortunately I just don't have the time to dedicate to working on something like this.

    I am very much like you, in TV-viewing habits. I rarely catch things on the actual TV but I will watch entire seasons at a time (on Hulu or the network's site if available, if not Torrents).
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