Kinolights is a web-based catalog that aggregates movie and TV show availability across major Korean streaming and VOD services, allowing users to enter a title and instantly see which platforms offer it with direct links. It also highlights trending, high‑rating, and newly released titles, and provides tag‑based browsing and personalized platform filters to streamline content discovery for Korean viewers.
Funding
$6.4M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Viewers often struggle to locate which streaming platform offers a specific movie or TV show, leading to time‑consuming searches across multiple services. This fragmentation makes it difficult to discover new or popular content quickly.
Solution
Kinolights provides a web-based catalog that aggregates movie and TV show availability across major Korean streaming and VOD services. Users can enter a title and instantly see a list of platforms where it can be watched, along with direct links. The platform also highlights trending and highly rated titles, offers curated collections based on genre or era, and presents a timeline of newly added releases for the user’s preferred services. By centralizing this information, Kinolights streamlines content discovery and reduces the effort required to find legal streaming options.
Target Audience
Primary users are Korean consumers who subscribe to one or more streaming services and want a fast way to locate movies or TV shows across those platforms.
Features
- Title search that returns real‑time availability on all supported streaming/VOD services
- Filter by preferred platforms (e.g., Netflix, Disney+, local VOD providers) to personalize results
- Trending and high‑rating sections that showcase currently popular movies and series
- “New releases” timeline displaying the latest titles added to each selected service
- Tag‑based browsing (e.g., genre, decade, rating) for quick exploration of similar content
- Direct links to the corresponding platform’s playback page for seamless viewing