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Feerless: Crowd-sourced, preemptive notifications for Netflix watchers with PTSD

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This is a really creative approach to a problem that far too many people need to deal with. I think this project is going to end up helping a lot of people.

Thanks! I'm really hoping that it'll help a lot of people dealing with PTSD live a normal life. It sucks to get surprised and have something that's supposed to be entertainment ruin your day.

Very nice. Would be nice to somehow feed back to other viewing devices -- e.g. Netflix app on the PS3 or "smart" TVs. Suppose that requires integration from the company Netflix.... (there isn't an add-on marketplace for TVs, right?)

(creator here) Wish there was, but they closed down their API several years ago. It would be great to get an integration on Apple TV, which would likely require some kind of partnership with Netflix like how Rotten Tomatoes and Common Sense Media does it.

If you want to get tricky, you could build a mobile app that can tell what netflix show you're watching based on audio data ala Shazam.

Maybe you could talk to these guys who have done exactly that for figuring out viewership numbers (maybe they'll want to share the tech): http://www.wired.com/2016/01/meet-symphony-the-company-that-...

Or maybe see if you can use http://echoprint.me/ or build your own http://royvanrijn.com/blog/2010/06/creating-shazam-in-java/

[EDIT]: Or maybe a wearable app, so that you don't have to have your phone out? It could potentially warn you about TV/movies too just by vibrating.

These are rad suggestions, thank you! I'll look into these!

Building a Shazam-like thing would actually be really cool to identify what shows people were watching. This way it would bridge the Chrome extension problem and put it on TVs. The only problem is getting the database of shows in the first place. I'm afraid it would put too much on the user to input the show name and episode information since Netflix doesn't have an API anymore.

Are the triggers classified, or are they generic?

To be more specific, do users set their triggering scenarios in the extension (eg shark attacks and water but not clowns) and only recieve warnings for that type of trigger, or are all reported triggers displayed to all users?

As of now, they are only generic. But I'm aiming to have categories soon, so you can sign up to receive clown warnings but not shark attacks. Users will then be able to classify warnings by category when they report them as well.

(though how would one categorize clowns attacking sharks??)

Probably the 'Absurd' subcategory of 'Interspecies Violence'.

Thank you for the clarification, best of luck with your project.

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