Announcing a side project in /r/InternetIsBeautiful

I recently released a small project I built to check where a movie or tv show was streaming in my country.

There are of course existing websites that do just that, justwatch being the most popular. But I was not happy with justwatch, I find the UI too crowded with lots of distraction. I just wanted a simpler interface that even my kids could use when checking where a movie was available. As I'm a web developer, it was a good excuse to build something and I thought I might as well release it just in case someone else would find it useful too.

In order to gain traction, I decided to post my project on reddit in /r/InternetIsBeautiful (rank #24 on reddit in terms of size). The results were mind blowing: the post was featured on the homepage with more than 500K views in just a few days and around 1.1K upvotes. Overall people seemed to find the project useful so I was pretty happy. Of course there will always be grumpy people and I also received some harsh feedbacks :)

I don't have any analytics set up on the website so I'm not sure how it translated in terms of visits but I'm logging the movies/tv shows lookups and the number has been growing steadily since the post.

I don't have big plans for this project, I just hope it can be a useful resource for people wondering where they can watch a movie/tv show.

The exposure brought by reddit was amazing and it shows it can be a really powerful medium when launching an online product.

What about you? Have you already launched something on reddit? How did it translate in terms of visits / sales?