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Steadyreel
A home media server that stays as you set it up. Your library, no surprises.
- Score
- 46
- confidence 52
- Evidence
- 2
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 2
- named in sources
- First version
- 60 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop and mobile
- PWA: on computers and phones alike
- Market since
- 2008
- Mature market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop and mobile: Households set up and configure the library on a computer; viewers stream and pick up playback on phones, TVs, and browsers. Sample screens on a computer and a phone, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
Home
All files found3 to resume
About this appAI proposal
Steadyreel is a personal media server for people with large libraries of movies, TV shows and music. Point it at your folders and it organizes them and streams them to your phone, TV or browser, at home or away.
It is built around one promise: features you rely on are not removed, moved behind a new tier or changed without your say. Updates are optional, can be postponed and can be rolled back. Release notes say plainly what changes.
You pay a yearly fee, and the product has one job: serve your library reliably. Your files stay on your own storage, in plain folders you can read without Steadyreel.
- Tagline
- Your library, exactly as you left it.
- Voice
- SteadyPlainHonest
- Why this name
- Steady for reliability, reel for film and media. Two plain words joined, easy to say, and it names the promise: nothing shifts under you.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
Pinned versions
Stay on the version you like. Updates never install on their own, and one tap rolls back to the last version that worked.
No member yet
Feature promise log
A public list of what your plan includes today. Anything on it stays in your plan for as long as you are subscribed.
No member yet
Plain-folder library
Reads your existing folders and file names. Nothing is moved, renamed or locked into a private format.
No member yet
Stream anywhere
Play from any device with a browser, and install it as an app on phones and tablets.
No member yet
Brand identityAI proposal
Check the name against trademark registers before using it.
Palette
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Typography
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Steadyreel
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Your library, exactly as you left it.
PricingAI proposal
The material gives no competitor prices. Evidence is a public claim that users would pay an annual fee for a stable product. These tiers are a starting point to test.
Home
$40 a year
- 1 server
- Up to 4 profiles
- Remote streaming
- Pinned versions and rollback
Household
$70 a year
- Up to 6 profiles
- Library health tools
- Feature promise log
- Priority email support
Would you pay Home · $40 a year?
Your answer tells PWAS which prices people accept. It changes no score.
No answers yet.
What it could be worthEstimate
What a software business making this much sells for today, from real deals. Pick a monthly revenue.
If it makes
Worth about
$194,000
Sale range $132,000 to $263,000
$120,000 a year in revenue
From 87 software businesses listed and sold on Empire Flippers in the last year, revenue vetted by the broker: they sell for about 19× their monthly revenue, most between 13× and 26×.
Measured on profit, the middle deal is 32× monthly net profit: about 2.7 years of profit.
An estimate, not an offer or financial advice. A real price depends on profit, growth, churn, how much of the work is the owner's, and the buyer.
How it would growAI proposal
How the product would reach new customers through its own use, and how the first ones would be found. A plan to test, not a result.
- Built-in loop
- No loop in the product. Streaming is for the owner's own household, so use creates little exposure to new buyers. Growth would come from community forums, reviews and word of mouth among media-library owners.
- Do they become customers?
- Household members who watch can see the app but do not buy it. Test whether people recommend it in forums, and whether free trial users convert to a yearly plan.
- First customers
- Individual home users with large movie, TV and music libraries who already pay for a media server and are frustrated by its changes.
- Where to reach them
- Hacker News and Reddit: Join threads on media server frustration, share the promise log and pinned-version approach, and invite testers to a waitlist.
- Self-hosting communities: Offer a beta to home-server forums and Discords, and ask for import and format feedback.
- First milestone
- 50 waitlist users from media-server communities, then 10 paying annual subscribers in one trial cohort.
Why people already pay for this
- Public claimUsers with paid licenses would pay recurring annual fees for a product that maintains quality and does not intentionally degrade functionality.
- Public claimExisting commercial media server software is perceived as intentionally worsening user experience.
Tech stack
Every proposal builds on the same PWA base, installable from the browser on any phone or computer. Dashed boxes are what this app adds.
- AppNext.js and TypeScript
- PWAManifest and service worker
- UITailwind CSS
- Data and authSupabase Postgres
- PaymentsStripe
- EmailResend
- HostingVercel
- This app · Media server agentSelf-hosted background serviceFiles stay on the user's own storage, so a small program on their machine must index and stream them.
- This app · TranscodingFFmpeg-based on-device transcodingConverts video for devices that cannot play the original file.
RisksAI inference
- CommercialEvidence is only two public claims from one forum. Many users may stay with free open-source servers or their current paid one; willingness to pay yearly is untested.
- TechnicalTranscoding, device compatibility and remote access are hard to make reliable across many TVs and networks, and reliability is the whole promise.
- Intellectual propertyStreaming and media metadata sources may carry licence terms; codecs may need licensing. Check before launch.
Everything marked AI proposal or AI inference was written by a model from the evidence on the opportunity page. The proposed name must be checked against trademark registers before it is used.