A homegrown Plex.

After a lot of grief trying to make Plex and jellyfish to work with my collection, and then some more with the community [1] I decided to make my own.

There's no selling point and clear pathway to monetize, as other solutions are way more mature and feature complete, but this is my own and serves my needs the best.

I've been working on it on and off for last 8 years or so, and it's been my personal benchmark for js ecosystem. The way it works, every now and then I come back to the project, look at the latest trends in js world and ask myself a simple question - what should I change in the codebase to make it online with the latest trends. And everytime it leads to full rewrite. Kind of funny, kind of sad.

In a nutshell I have a huge movie collection - basically I'm preparing for armageddon where all online streaming services cease to exist and I need both backend to fetch me detailed information about movies in the collection as well as frontend to help to decide what to watch tonight.

My next major endeavor will be trying to integrate RAG to take a bite at my holy grail - being able to ask a question like "get me a good gangster flick" and get reasonable recommendations.

[1] I think it was jellyfish where I was asking on their forums for how to manually create a collection, stating I'm a software engineer with 20+ exp and they kept telling me that I shouldn't touch the code... While having an online campaign asking for volunteers to contribute to the codebase.