I hear the words "It's time to build a better ... tracker" and right away the author is at a disadvantage - they have an uphill battle to convince me again that there is a benefit to being tracked.
Though it's certainly a valuable number to know, I'm not sure a huge "TIME WASTED WATCHING TV: x DAYS" is what people want from a TV watchlist. (Whereas this would be a valuable feature in a productivity app.)
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?
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.
I don't see how this is different and/or better than trakt.tv. And what the hell does "automatically track what you're watching" mean. 3rd party software? Like xbmc+trakt plugin?
I also don't like how wherever you click on that website, including the search box, you're redirected to kickstarter campaign.
Detecting what you are watching on Hulu or Netflix is a stretch goal for them and according to their description it would only be for Chrome. Right now it's limited to avi, mkv, mp4, m4v files you watch on your computer.
