Followmy.tv Keeps track of your current tv shows. Discover new tv shows, discuss and share them with your friends.

How does the future for followmy.tv look like?

By Lemon - Sep 07, 2015

FMTV at the moment

Followmy.tv has been around since January 2010, created out of love for Television and desperately in need of a decent agenda to keep track of our favourite episodes. Our main goal was to create a platform to get people to follow, share and talk about their favorite TV Shows. Fast forward 5 years later: we've created a community of 52 342 members, over 6000 of them using followmy.tv on a daily base. We could not have dreamed a greater gift. Thank you!

People who've been around since our start already know we hardly make any statements about followmy.tv. In fact: we only make statements if we feel we need to. This is because our platform is very powerful: It can survive without any moderation. That's all because a lot of people have the same feeling as we do; A lot of people love their TV shows and have a need for a platform to keep track of them, talk about them and to introduce them to friends. This is also the reason why we’re creating this blog; because we still believe in this. Even more: We’re taking the Followmy.tv experience to the next level.

New Updates

The site was originally built on top of the CakePHP 1.3 framework. We started moving to the 2.x version of that framework a couple of years ago. Recently 3.0 came out and we ended up deciding to rebuild the entire site from the ground up. With that in mind, we do have several new features planned and here are a couple of them:

  • OAuth2 API: A fully open API that developers can use to create cool things
  • Native mobile apps: Planning on ios and android
  • Lists: A cool new way to discover tv shows in a unique way
  • Groups: Form groups to discuss and share your favorite tv shows with your closest friends.
  • Discussions: A better way to communicate with fans.

The entire new website will use its own OAuth2 API to communicate with the back-end. Which means that you as a developer will have full creative freedom and making cool things to integrate with followmy.tv!

Our goal is to get all of this done by the end of the year.

Kenny

Since the early beginning we have received tons of mails, tweets, Facebook messages,.. so we decided to introduce Kenny Leys (SilentAlarm) on board of our team to manage our social media platforms. He'll be responsible for keeping our instagram, facebook and twitter up-to-date with the latest news, throwbacks, behind the scene footage and much more. Make sure to follow every single one of them!

Jasper

Jasper and I founded followmy.tv almost 5 years ago. We had this grand idea and we made it reality. Everything you see on your screen was designed by Jasper and he did an amazing job. Due to other work & life responsibilities, Jasper is stepping down from the team. Thanks you for all your hard work Jasper, you will be missed!

UI Designer

At the moment we’re back a 2-man operation but we’re hoping to expand soon! If you are a software developer with plenty experience in CakePHP (or PHP in general) or if you are an awesome UI designer, please drop us an email on info@followmy.tv.

Thanks

We've said it before; Followmy.tv will keep going on as long as we’re existing. All of this thanks to every awesome user out there. We’d like to end this post with a special thanks to all of the users that have donated, without you guys/girls Followmy.tv would not be have been possible to maintain.

Keep track of our social media, we’ll be back soon.

Comments

rryanm
rryanm (Sep 07, 2015)

Sounds good

decoeurs
decoeurs (Sep 07, 2015)

I've been using this website for years now, thanks! I can't wait for an app!

Benjamin
Benjamin (Sep 07, 2015)

@nico23 +1

Jethro
Jethro (Sep 07, 2015)

Keep it up guys! I use the site allmost daily. Can't wait till the adroid app

mrseven
mrseven (Sep 07, 2015)

Many thanks for your work guys

nico23
nico23 (Sep 07, 2015)

As I said b4. Go OPEN SOURCE THIS!

I like your site, almost entirely for simply following up on my series. You made a big donation request some time ago and saying that you operate this without ads just on donation. And you made it sound a bit scary like "If you not donate we might shutdown" like. I use a ad-blocker anyway but I think its awesome that you have no ads here.

And now your coming out with new stuff and mobile apps and everything?

So my question when this is basically nothing you want to cache in on and a passion project, why do you need to keep the code secret? Why should single devs write you a email about UI design. Why not just throw this baby on Github and let the community build it together, better then you ever could do alone with a few guys?

I mean you code this on CakePHP which is open source, you use data from TVrage that is "open source" and your "business model" would probably attract more donations this way. People could place Bounty’s on features they would like to see on bountysource ...

ezralaturake
ezralaturake (Sep 07, 2015)

Hope everything turns out very well guys. I've been here since 2010 and I still like the website a lot. I'm really looking forward to the future!

Alpende
Alpende (Sep 07, 2015)

Sounds good. Thanks keeping the site up and running, I use it daily.

ruffblaza
ruffblaza (Sep 07, 2015)

thank you, you guys have done so much for us already, and i like the site how it is now, but i know it will be much better with the new update, thank you so much for everything.

rusty
rusty (Sep 07, 2015)

best of luck to you guys

JackAhrairah
JackAhrairah (Sep 07, 2015)

Very glad to read this. You have already done a marvelous job with this site and I am most certainly looking forward to those new updates.

Keep up the good work, guys! :D

Guff
Guff (Sep 07, 2015)

This is awesome! :)

FunkStar
FunkStar (Sep 07, 2015)

Cool, looking forward to the changes!

drakon
drakon (Sep 07, 2015)

Great news. - Love the site. Even built a free chrome plugin for myself to more quickly start a new episode on Kinox.to, which luckily is completely legal in my country. (http://bit.ly/1KAIQmB). Would love some feedback. :)

milkteeth
milkteeth (Sep 07, 2015)

An improved online version/mobile app would be amazing! I quite like the site how it is right now, in terms of UI, it's quite simple + easy to navigate, but the new features you introduced would add a lot to it! :)

BertDenolf
BertDenolf (Sep 07, 2015)

Great work, great news! A mobile version for the site would be awesome!

mandyyporto
mandyyporto (Sep 07, 2015)

awesomeeeeeeeeeee

svgn
svgn (Sep 07, 2015)

Great news guys. I think it will be better if you just adjust the website UI for mobile devices. Making native apps for 2 or 3 different mobile operating systems is unnecessarily for me. Good luck :)

josbeir
josbeir (Sep 07, 2015)

I'm not gone of course, more in some sort of hybernation mode for the time being :-)

Keep up the good work team !

owadel
owadel (Sep 07, 2015)

I cant wait to see the great things that will come to this website! Thank you all for the hard work that you are doing to keep as happy!

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