I am excited to annouce a new project, Tvmarks, a personal website to track your tv shows. It is inspired by and shares much of the same code as Postmarks. Through the power of the tvmaze database Tvmarks lets you a build a selfhosted version of what you are watching, what you have watched, and what you plan to watch. Tvmarks is also fediverse enabled with shows added and episodes watched shared with your comments to activitypub.
How I Got Here
Postmarks launched in 2023 but I didn’t discover it till 2025. That still seems wild to think about since I am, or try to be, very pluged in to the fediverse. But one thing it taught me that I never really thought of is how an sqlite can juist be a file that node can access. I love web aplications but have never loved needing to care about servers and databses. Glicth with sqlite really solves so many problems that are needed but I rather not care about. With those obticals trivialized I was excited with the idea of owning my tv watching data.
A cousin of Postmarks
Is it clear I love Postmarks?! I forked it in Febuary and got to work. Most changes were pretty strightforward to support shows and episodes in the database. Tvmaze has great apis to source data from to host in your own database so you are never dependant of another website to host your data.
RIP Glicth
Though Tvmarks was built to run on glitch.com I have also been able to run it on a VPS and on Render.com.
Install it and let me know
If you try it link me to your instance -> @stefan@gardenstate.social