Couchmate Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Show HN: Find Reddit discussion threads for your TV shows

  Reminds me of https://couchmate.com/, just jump into a show and it puts you in a dedicated channel with other viewers. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Who is looking for a co-founder? (July 2021)

  Couchmate - TV Guide x Discord | REMOTE or Chicago, IL The goal of Couchmate (https://couchmate.com) is to build the future of social interaction and community around live TV where current platforms (namely Twitter) have failed. Couchmate creates real-time, ephemeral chat rooms for every single live show across every provider in the USA and Canada, currently. Looking for a co-founder whose strong in Marketing,... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Social Media Is Killing Discourse Because It’s Too Much Like TV

  (2016) It's funny because I'm trying to solve this issue for TV (https://couchmate.com), which is pretty underserved when you look at current solutions for discourse about linear TV content. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Is there an argument for KEEPING cable tv?

  Something like https://couchmate.com. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Cable TV is dying, and the industry only has itself to blame

  Check out https://couchmate.com. At least you can chat with other people watching the same show. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Ask HN: How many projects do you work on at a time?

  I have one large, overarching project (https://couchmate.com) that I've had for the past 8 years. Along the way, I'll take little detours into different projects as an escape from the main one, to keep things fresh, explore new technologies, etc. An example is I needed a better way to manage my Twitter lists, so I built Twitlistr in a week (https://twitlistr.com) to explore Nextjs/Next-Auth/Twitter API/Vercel. I... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Couchmate - Real Time Chat for Live TV (TV Guide + Discord/Slack)

  My name is Matt Oliver and I've been developing Couchmate (https://couchmate.com) solo for like 8 years now, launched last September and have been adding a ton of new features over the past couple months. Source: about 3 years ago

• Ask HN: How to jumpstart a new social platform

  Hey HN, So I've been toiling away at creating a new social platform for TV (https://couchmate.com). I'm running into the classic chicken/egg problem at trying to get users simply aware that I exist. I'm looking for options from the HN crowd at things I might be overlooking. (1) Paid Ads. I'm bootstrapping, so my budget is paltry. Ran ads on Facebook, Insta, Twitter and Reddit. Didn't really drive any traffic to... - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

• Tim Berners-Lee: ‘We need social networks where bad things happen less’

  I've been doing the same thing but around live TV. The goal is each show is its own community that essentially forms and disperses as the shows are live and then end. https://couchmate.com. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago