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Show HN: Jumpskip – Watch movies on Netflix without the jumpscares

1 pointsby alyssaxuualmost 4 years ago

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alyssaxuualmost 4 years ago
I love horror movies (especially sci-fi horror, big fan of The Thing, Alien, Event Horizon...), but I absolutely can&#x27;t stand the jumpscares. I&#x27;ve been having to rely on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wheresthejump.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wheresthejump.com&#x2F;</a> for so long - basically I would search for a movie I wanted to watch, see if it had any jumpscares, then remember the timestamps, keep track of the time, and when it got close I would simply look away and take my headphones off for a while.<p>I thought I could build something to simplify the process, so I scraped the data for &gt;540 movies and created an extension that automatically skips, mutes, or shows a warning when a jumpscare is about to happen. Currently it only works on Netflix (since that&#x27;s all I have), but it could be expanded to work for Amazon Prime, Hulu, etc. I&#x27;ve open sourced the code on GitHub so anyone can contribute or make their own version.