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WatchSocial
The free TV tracker you actually watch with friends
Most trackers stop at logging: you rate a show, close the app, watch alone. WatchSocial fuses tracking with synced watch parties - press play at the same second as friends and chat live in your browser (Netflix, Prime, Disney+, Hulu, Max, YouTube), then it logs to everyone's history. Plus what rivals paywall - advanced stats, streaming filters, unlimited lists, year-in-review - all free. One account across web, iOS, Android and a browser extension. Import from TV Time, Trakt or Letterboxd.
Hey Product Hunt, I built WatchSocial.
I've tried every TV tracker out there and they all share one gap: they log what you watched, but the watching itself is still solo. You finish an episode, tap a rating, close the app.
And the one thing I actually wanted, watching a show at the same second as friends who live somewhere else, only existed in standalone tools like Teleparty that do nothing else. No tracking, no history, no community. So you were always stuck juggling two apps, one to watch together, one to remember what you watched.
WatchSocial puts both in one place. A full tracker AND synced watch parties in the browser, plus a community feed and games on top. Along the way we decided not to paywall the basics either, advanced stats, streaming filters, unlimited lists and year-in-review are things other apps charge $40-60/yr for, and here they're free.
It's still early and we're shipping constantly, we already have a hundred signups in the last week! I'd genuinely love your feedback, what would make this your main tracking app?
Import your history from TV Time, Trakt or Letterboxd and give it a go at watchsocial.tv
The synced playback actually worked across Netflix without weird lag, which I was skeptical about. Side chats while watching a show with friends and getting automatic logs afterward feels like something that should've existed already.
The browser extension is a nice touch but it would be huge if you could also schedule watch parties ahead of time with calendar invites so friends can block it out instead of scrambling in a group chat.
Finally tried this with a friend across timezones and the play button actually synced perfectly on Netflix, which I did not expect. The shared history afterward is a really nice touch, makes it feel like we actually watched something together.
Synced playback with friends on Netflix actually worked smoothly in my browser, and the chat right next to the video felt natural. Nice touch that the watch hits everyone's history automatically without extra steps.
the synced play button approach is genuinely clever - skipping the "start exactly when i say go" awkwardness most watch party tools ignore. nice that the streaming detection seems to work across the big services too.
Love that the browser extension side panels keep the chat and play controls right next to the stream instead of forcing a separate window. Sync timing on a shared "press play" moment is notoriously janky and you pulled it off across all those services for free.
syncing playback with a friend on Netflix worked surprisingly smoothly and the auto-logging to both our histories saved me the usual post-episode hassle. the free tier having advanced stats is a nice touch too.
Finally tried this with my group and the play sync worked perfectly across Netflix with zero delay. Import from Trakt pulled in everything in seconds.
Love that the watch party syncing works across so many streaming services, that's the killer feature here. One thing I'd love to see is a shared "continue watching" shelf inside the party room so when someone joins late, they can jump to the exact minute everyone is at with one click instead of hunting through the chat to figure out the timestamp.
Would love to see a shared "currently watching" widget that friends can drop into Discord or iMessage so we can see what each other is binging without opening the app first.
the synced playback actually works without weird lag, which honestly surprised me. being able to log the watch session automatically after is a nice touch too
The synced play button timing across all those streaming platforms must have taken serious engineering work to get right, especially with how picky some players are about user gestures. Great execution on something most would have skipped.
About WatchSocial on Product Hunt
“The free TV tracker you actually watch with friends”
WatchSocial was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 13 upvotes and 23 comments, placing #160 on the daily leaderboard. Most trackers stop at logging: you rate a show, close the app, watch alone. WatchSocial fuses tracking with synced watch parties - press play at the same second as friends and chat live in your browser (Netflix, Prime, Disney+, Hulu, Max, YouTube), then it logs to everyone's history. Plus what rivals paywall - advanced stats, streaming filters, unlimited lists, year-in-review - all free. One account across web, iOS, Android and a browser extension. Import from TV Time, Trakt or Letterboxd.
WatchSocial was featured in Android (57.4k followers), Streaming Services (42.9k followers), Entertainment (1.9k followers) and Social Networking (1.8k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 54.9k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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