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The state of followmy.tv, past, present and future.

By Lemon - Nov 24, 2013

First of all, thank you for all the users that still use followmy.tv up to today! I love how active the users are in our community. Followmy.tv would never existed without our awesome users. And a special thanks to all of the users that donated, without you guys/girls followmy.tv would not be possible to maintain. And I'm grateful for having built a website that is used by 10s of thousands users worldwide daily.

Second, and the most important thing, we as the staff of followmy.tv have to say 3 important words to our users "We are sorry". We are sorry for being inactive this long, we are sorry for features that were promised but never came, we are sorry for not answering support tickets in time.

Now that those are out of the way, lets explain what is going on with followmy.tv, what the future holds and what the reality is.

Followmy.tv was founded 3 years ago as a side project by Jasper and me, we had big dreams, dreams like "We will have 1 million users", "I hope we can work for followmy.tv full time", "I hope followmy.tv becomes profitable enough for us to hire additional staff". None of these dreams came true so far, but I still dream of at least making one of those dreams reality.

Currently the state of followmy.tv is that we are in a hibernation state, the website is working stable, we are still growing daily with an average of 30 signups / day with over 30% active users. We have awesome crew members that moderate and add content daily. But all of this is overshadowed by the fact that our core developers are not developing any new features or are very slow in answering support tickets. Ofcourse this is unacceptable and I hope we can change this in the future.

Of course we do not do this by choice but the sad fact is, we just don't have enough free time to assign to followmy.tv to handle all of the feature requests and/or support tickets. We both have full time day jobs, we both have relationships, we both have a lot of other responsibilities that are more important that followmy.tv. Followmy.tv started as a side project and is still a side project.

The last update to followmy.tv was almost 2 years ago, but we have been doing a lot of development since then. Currently followmy.tv runs on an older version of the CakePHP framework, the moment CakePHP 2.x came out we started re building followmy.tv from the ground up resulting in a much more stable and faster website. This development project has been going on for over a year now and we are close but not close enough to release it to production. This is the reason why there are no features being released to the live website because we would have to build them twice, for the old site and the new site.

One of the biggest requests is the API and the mobile application. I have been working on the API for over a year now and it is complete for about 75%. But due to lacking free time to work on it, it has been delayed immensely. We were also working on a complete new redesign of the website which we scrapped for now because that was going to take too much time to complete now. All in all, the new version of followmy.tv is very close to be finished but not yet. Its the last push and testing phase that is taking a lot of time, and currently we both have almost zero time to commit to followmy.tv.

Financially followmy.tv is costing us a considerate amount monthly to keep it in the air, the combination of ads and donations is just not bringing enough cash in to cover all the costs, let alone hiring software developers to develop for us.

How does the future of followmy.tv look like?

This is unclear, one thing I'm completely 100% sure off though, followmy.tv will keep existing as long as I'm existing. Its my biggest software passion and will always be my biggest passion. Some things have to change though, our crew has to be more active. I personally vouch that once I'm settled in in my new home (I'm in the middle of moving to a different country) I will make more free time to work on followmy.tv.

We will also start looking for extra developers / designer within our community that share our passion and want to help out and want the opportunity to make followmy.tv better.

If you are a software developer with a lot of experience in CakePHP (or PHP in general) or if you are an awesome UI designer, please drop us an email on info@followmy.tv.

I hope you (the awesome user) accept my apology, and I hope you will keep using our website and have the patience. We really appreciate every one of you that use our website daily, weekly or just once.

Cheers, Jelle

Comments

Muscleduck
Muscleduck (Nov 24, 2013)

I've been here since early beta and still use the site every day. Can't believe it's been 3 years! Keep up the work jus. Don't care that it's slower than you want it to be. Family and work come first.

AngDavKev
AngDavKev (Nov 24, 2013)

Site is fine as it is. Don't sweat it. Mobile app would be cool but things work fine in the browser too. U scared me, but I'm happy the site will live on. Thanks for everything so far.

CamilloVip
CamilloVip (Nov 24, 2013)

OMG! Please, don't scare me like that! I was thinkin' that you want to close website!

nico23
nico23 (Nov 24, 2013)

Open source this site on github and watch people contribute and make it better. I am happy with it as it is now no real need for more features if you ask me.

Trilosodon
Trilosodon (Nov 24, 2013)

Dude don't scare us like that!!

I have been reading the comments people have left & it's pretty clear to me that most users (That left a comment at least) are not bothered too much about new features because we are happy with the functionality of the site :D
Personally I love the site because it is so simple & sleek looking, so any new features you develop are just a bonus.

Before using this site I used next-episode.net, the other day I got an e-mail from them saying that my account was going to be deleted as I haven't logged in for over a year.
Then I realized WOW I have been using this site for a year now, I love it so much & I have donated, I hope it helps :)

I really wish I could help out with this project, but I have limited PHP experience, however regarding your financial situation, I would be happy to pay a small annual perhaps one-off lifetime fee to keep the site going, I don't know how other users feel about that?

arkady
arkady (Nov 24, 2013)

Thank you for all the work, I love this site. If I had a job I would donate at least a few bucks. Hope you still enjoy playing with the site. :)

tvanderv
tvanderv (Nov 24, 2013)

My advice would be to make this website open, let users create the content/add value to this website. I'd recon that within your userbase there are loads of developers with a just a little bit of free time.

FromAMadWorld
FromAMadWorld (Nov 24, 2013)

I love this site, thanks for all your work!

Tuser
Tuser (Nov 24, 2013)

When I started reading, I was afraid you were going to stop. Glad to hear you are still looking to update in the future. I am an iOS/Android developer, so if you need help...

BertDenolf
BertDenolf (Nov 24, 2013)

This site is a bliss. Without it, I'd be lost in TV-world. No need for apologies, just keep up the good work :) Thanks for everything!

drazgo
drazgo (Nov 24, 2013)

Thank you for everything you guys have done so far, this is a great site! Hope you can manage to free up some time for the mobile API, really looking forward to that one :D

ModernDayFire
ModernDayFire (Nov 24, 2013)

Thank you for all your hard work! Honestly, followmytv is a fantastic website and will continue to be a fantastic website with or without any updates, you really have a lot to be proud of :)

nereis
nereis (Nov 24, 2013)

Thanks for everything you've done for us, honesty I couldn't live without this site.

Moldonado
Moldonado (Nov 24, 2013)

Been using the site for almost three years now and I still love it. The lack of updates doesn't bother me at all. Thank you for all your efforts!

Bonermaster
Bonermaster (Nov 24, 2013)

Ive been around this site for almost 2 years and a half and i am very glad to see it continues, although not much changed over time its still a daily site for me and ive never been annoyed with anything here, some new features would be cool, but with or without i will still use it. Thanks alot for the work you guys do.

josbeir
josbeir (Nov 24, 2013)

Thanks for all the positive comments guy, we really appreciate it !

HisDudeness
HisDudeness (Nov 24, 2013)

You guys scared me! Thought my favorite site was closing, but thank god it's not! The site is great as it is, and anything that will add to that greatness is much appreciated, but not absolutely necessary. I will keep using followmy.tv daily, as I have been over the past few years, with or without new features. Thanks for all the work you guys are doing, and take all the time you need.

nightowl81
nightowl81 (Nov 24, 2013)

Just like @bellarosemand I almost had a heart attack because I thought you were closing and I've tried so many other trackers - this one is still the best. So HUGE thank you for all the work that you do :)

justmike
justmike (Nov 24, 2013)

Thank you guys for everything. Followmy.tv is truly amazing and I wish you all the best of luck! Oh and take your time, we're patient ;)

vincecore
vincecore (Nov 24, 2013)

The site is great! I think the API is the most important feature to complete right now to keep the users here. Other users will make the apps. I hope you guys find some time and thanks for the site :)!

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