What the hell is this, Kevin?
A private little corner of the internet where family and friends can watch movies & TV, read ebooks, and listen to audiobooks, through their own apps, on their own devices. No ads, no marketing, no subscriptions, no bullshit. You request something, it shows up. That's the whole idea.
Two reasons. One: I can't stand what services has become. Predatory practices, a dozen subscriptions fighting over leasing contracts, prices always increasing for no reason, your favorites paywalled, ads in the thing you ALREADY pay for. Nothing but greed. Two: Solving techincal solutions that scale with heavy constraints, building and running this kind of architecture and infrastructure is literally what I do, so I'd rather own the whole stack than rent pieces of it for bad experience.
So I built the thing I wished existed: one library with everything in it, shared with only people I trust.
Under the hood it's fully self-hosted: a small media server does the heavy lifting. Finding, organizing, transcoding. A NAS holding everything, all on my own network, from my closet.
When you request something, an automated pipeline goes and fetches it, cleans it up, files it in the right place, finds and attaches subtitles, and pings you when it's ready. Usually within a few minutes.
Everything is locked down: encrypted tunnels to the outside world, invite-only access gated behind your email and MFA, nothing public, nothing torrented, encrypted end to end. It's monitored around the clock and quietly maintained so it just works.
It's a labor of love (and spite). Enjoy it, DON'T SHARE YOUR LOGIN, and tell me if anything breaks.