I'm one of the founding engineers of Prescreen. We're disrupting the movie distribution space by bringing new movies directly to consumers via streaming online.
For consumers, we feature a single new unseen movie each day. The movie remains on Prescreen for 60 days. Customers who purchase the movie have a 48 hour period to view the movie once they start watching.
For independent filmmakers, we provide a launchpad to getting distribution. Films are like startups in many ways - you get a bunch of great people together and work your ass off to produce an awesome product. Then comes the hard part - generating enough interest in the film to get distribution, which is analogous to getting enough traction to land series-A funding. Prescreen provides an initial audience for the film, and more importantly, provides insights into the addressable market.
We produced our MVP in about 3 months with 3 engineers, leveraging a bunch of newer tech including MongoDB, the Lithium PHP framework, and Cloudfront.
Would love your feedback on the product and the space.
One issue: it took a minute to figure out how to see more because I'm viewing at 1920x1200 resolution; the js wouldn't trigger until making my window smaller.
RSS subscriber here. While we're on the topic, would it be possible to include the text for text stories in the RSS feed? Currently only the title is shown. I tend to not click on things that don't immediately appear relevant to me. The title is not always descriptive of the content.