Welcome to the readme for the Hadfield media server project. After discovering the service Plex, I wanted to create a media server where I could host a collection of movies that would be easily accessible to friends and family. Although Plex is a good service, the user experience was lacking. To use the server users would have to create an account on their own, then give me their user so I could send them an invite, then accept the invite and remember the server address. This process has way too many steps for users to want to do. Additionally, there was no good way for them to request new additions to the database of movies
To solve the above problems, working under the philosophy that the user is as lazy as possible, my goal was to create one of the most streamlined and efficient plex experiences possible. This site will automatically create a plex account, and invite it to the server. It simplifies movie acquisition using a custom search to find thousands of movies. Furthermore, it maintains it's 'closed' nature with automatic account creation and approval pins.
This server is a 'closed' project so to speak, so account creation requires admin approval. If you want to join, or to learn more about the project, contact admin@hadfield.webhop.me or apply to create an account here!
- Automatic WOL for Apple TV/ Roku/ non-browser clients
- Some sort of intro tour or something like that to increase new user retetion
- Google adsense or some other monitization strategy would be great
- Automatic downtime monitoring - text me when something bad happens
- hadfield.webhop.me goes down
- plex server goes down
- mac pro goes down
- new user is created/approved
- stream or other errors