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Beacon Deck
One live dashboard for Plex, Jellyfin and Emby streams and sharing alerts
- Score
- 54
- confidence 42
- Evidence
- 3
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 2
- named in sources
- First version
- 30 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop and mobile
- PWA: on computers and phones alike
- Market since
- 2015
- Established market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop and mobile: Admins configure servers and alerts at a desk, then monitor live streams and check usage from anywhere via phone-ready dashboard. Sample screens on a computer and a phone, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
Live now
3 servers online4 streams
About this appAI proposal
Beacon Deck gathers stream activity from your Plex, Jellyfin and Emby servers into one live dashboard. See who is watching what, on which device and from which place, without opening each server's admin panel.
It is made for people who run their own media servers and share them with family or friends. Beacon Deck flags patterns that look like account sharing, such as one login streaming from distant places or many new devices in a short time, and leaves the decision to you.
Tools built for a single server type show only that server. Beacon Deck treats all your servers as one body of activity. It installs as a web app, so you can check it from your phone.
- Tagline
- One quiet dashboard for every stream on every server you run.
- Voice
- CalmPrecisePractical
- Why this name
- A beacon is a lookout that watches from one spot. Beacon Deck suggests a single vantage over many servers, in two plain words.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
One dashboard for all servers
Connect Plex, Jellyfin and Emby servers and see every current stream in a single live list.
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Live stream view
Who is playing what, on which device, from which place, and whether it is direct play or transcoding.
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Account sharing flags
Flags logins that stream from distant places at once or show many new devices in a short time.
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Alerts you control
Get a push or email alert for new devices, new locations or rule matches. Set quiet hours.
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Brand identityAI proposal
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Palette
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Typography
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Beacon Deck
PricingAI proposal
The material gives no competitor prices. The tiers are a starting point to test, based on the premium ideas in the opportunity: alerts, retention, API access.
Free
Free
- One server
- Live stream view
- 7 days of history
- Basic sharing flags
Plus
$5 a month
- Up to 5 servers
- Plex, Jellyfin and Emby together
- 1 year of history
- Push and email alerts
Pro
$12 a month
- Unlimited servers
- Unlimited history
- API access
- Custom sharing rules
Would you pay Plus · $5 a month?
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. Reached through self-hosting communities, content and search. Use is private to the server operator, so it creates no natural loop. Read-only share links for household members could be tested later.
- Do they become customers?
- Operators are the buyers, so content and community reach them directly. Test whether free one-server users convert when they add a second server type, or want alerts and longer history.
- First customers
- Hobbyist operators who share a Plex or Jellyfin server with 5 to 20 friends and family, and also run a second server type or want alerts.
- Where to reach them
- Self-hosting forums: Post a guide to spotting account sharing across servers in Plex, Jellyfin and self-hosted communities.
- Open-source project issues: Join discussions where users ask for multi-server views and alerts, and offer early access.
- Short demo videos: Show a live multi-server dashboard and a sharing flag being raised on video platforms.
- First milestone
- Fifty connected servers in 60 days, and ten of them paying for alerts or longer history.
Why people already pay for this
- VerifiedGitHub repository gained 2705 stars in 316 days
- Public claimReal-time monitoring for Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby servers with the ability to track streams, analyze playback, and detect account sharing
- AI inferenceThe project has accumulated 2,705 GitHub stars and 120 forks, indicating significant user interest in this monitoring solution
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 · Background workersScheduled jobs that poll each server's APIStream data must be pulled from each media server often, which the web app alone cannot do.
- This app · IP geolocationIP-to-location lookup service or databaseNeeded to show where streams come from and to flag distant simultaneous logins.
RisksAI inference
- CommercialFree open-source tools already exist for Plex and Jellyfin. Self-hosters may refuse to pay for something they can run themselves.
- PlatformPlex, Jellyfin and Emby APIs can change or limit access, which could break the connectors without warning.
- TechnicalHome servers behind routers are hard to reach from a hosted app. An agent or tunnel adds setup effort and support load.
- DataStoring viewing history and IP addresses of other people raises privacy concerns and may fall under data protection rules.
- TechnicalIP location is imprecise, so sharing flags may raise false alarms with VPNs or mobile networks and lose user trust.
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.