So I'm consideration resurrecting The Projection List, my old movie & TV release date site. It was relatively popular back in 2015, to the point where a larger industry site eventually teamed up with me, in attempt to build a much bigger industry database, but for a few reasons - primarily of which was a business partner I shouldn't have gone into business with - the whole thing went belly up in 2018. I had temporarily paused The Projection List only a few months after it launched, to concentrate on building the newer/bigger site, but just didn't have the desire to resurrect it when everything went south.
That said, people to this day ask me about the old TPL site, because there's still somehow not a single, go-to, at-a-glance site for looking up release dates. And especially in the streaming world we're in now, where it can be confusing as hell what's releasing in theaters (never mind if it's a limited or wide release) vs. digital vs. streaming, I feel like The Projection List could be more vital than ever.
Or am I wrong? Do you guys feel like you have a handle on what's releasing when and where? Or are you having to go to multiple sites/streamers to figure it all out and/or rely on what is posted here on TexAgs?
What I'm potentially looking to do would essentially consist of three tabs - MOVIES, SERIES, and TRAILERS. Each in spreadsheet form - but super clean and slick - where each movie would have LIMITED (theatrical), WIDE (theatrical), (digital) RENT, (digital) BUY, and STREAM release dates/columns, where you could sort by any of those columns, search by movie titles, distributors, streamers, etc. Then there would be the Fandango, Just Watch, and IMDb inks for each movie as well, all right there, all on the same page. The entire release calendar from the current week to years in the future. Same for TV series (seasons not individual episodes), and then the trailer section would be every trailer released on YouTube - for both movies and TV - every day, all in one place.
To build out the database and the site would of course take some time and money (I'd handle the database and hire someone or a company to build the site), but once that's done, the daily database upkeep on my end wouldn't be that hard - only 30 or so minutes of my time per day - for something the industry and fans could benefit from, and that I could eventually make some passive income on with ads. Part of me really wants to give it another shot, and do it my way 100% this time, but I'm also busy enough with my other work that I don't exactly welcome the extra time and effort it would take to build the initial database (at least a couple months), never mind overseeing the construction of the site itself.
Hence me gauging initial interest/testing the waters here.
So... thoughts? Yay or nay to something like this?
That said, people to this day ask me about the old TPL site, because there's still somehow not a single, go-to, at-a-glance site for looking up release dates. And especially in the streaming world we're in now, where it can be confusing as hell what's releasing in theaters (never mind if it's a limited or wide release) vs. digital vs. streaming, I feel like The Projection List could be more vital than ever.
Or am I wrong? Do you guys feel like you have a handle on what's releasing when and where? Or are you having to go to multiple sites/streamers to figure it all out and/or rely on what is posted here on TexAgs?
What I'm potentially looking to do would essentially consist of three tabs - MOVIES, SERIES, and TRAILERS. Each in spreadsheet form - but super clean and slick - where each movie would have LIMITED (theatrical), WIDE (theatrical), (digital) RENT, (digital) BUY, and STREAM release dates/columns, where you could sort by any of those columns, search by movie titles, distributors, streamers, etc. Then there would be the Fandango, Just Watch, and IMDb inks for each movie as well, all right there, all on the same page. The entire release calendar from the current week to years in the future. Same for TV series (seasons not individual episodes), and then the trailer section would be every trailer released on YouTube - for both movies and TV - every day, all in one place.
To build out the database and the site would of course take some time and money (I'd handle the database and hire someone or a company to build the site), but once that's done, the daily database upkeep on my end wouldn't be that hard - only 30 or so minutes of my time per day - for something the industry and fans could benefit from, and that I could eventually make some passive income on with ads. Part of me really wants to give it another shot, and do it my way 100% this time, but I'm also busy enough with my other work that I don't exactly welcome the extra time and effort it would take to build the initial database (at least a couple months), never mind overseeing the construction of the site itself.
Hence me gauging initial interest/testing the waters here.
So... thoughts? Yay or nay to something like this?
