WhatToStream.ai
AI search that finds what to watch and where to stream it.
Every night, the same ritual: open Netflix, scroll for 20 minutes, open Prime, scroll some more, give up and rewatch The Office. I was wasting 30 minutes every night deciding what to watch. Google was useless — every result was an SEO-optimized listicle from 2019 with affiliate links to services that didn't even carry the movie anymore.
So I built WhatToStream. It's an AI search engine for streaming. Ask it "Horror movies under 2 hours on Netflix" or "Something like Fleabag but darker" — it understands what you mean, not just the keywords. Under the hood, it queries verified, up-to-date streaming availability data directly. No scraping, no guessing. If it says a movie is on Hulu, it's on Hulu.
The stack is Next.js on the frontend, FastAPI on the backend, with OpenAI handling the natural language understanding. The key insight was that streaming availability is a structured data problem — you don't need an LLM to check if a movie is on Netflix, you need it to understand what "something like Fleabag but darker" means and translate that into a query.
It has thousands of monthly users now. Most of them found it the same way I would have — frustrated, on the couch, at 9 PM.