Dinner with friends and family. They start talking about series and movies. Some recommend them to others, but when they get home almost no one remembers them. The YouTuber Nikias Molina has created a perfect app for iOS to solve this. It's called Kernel. It is free and has a database with more than a million films and series, completely updated and according to each country, with all streaming services, actor data and release dates. Kernel allows you to create numerous playlists.
The app surprises with its careful design. The creation of the app took Nikias Molina and his team to work for two years: "People are subscribed to multiple platforms and it is difficult to navigate them. Today there is no way to recommend movies digitally, but it's something we do constantly when we're with family and friends."
So, they created the app "with the concept of 'sharing and saving' in a playlist. Playlists are part of music culture." Kernel can be used as a widget on the iPhone and as a complication on the Apple Watch that warns of expected releases.
Molina points out that during the two years to create the app "the most difficult thing has been to achieve simplicity. Sometimes it's easier to do something complicated than something super simple." "We've become obsessed with a design that allows anyone to open it and start using it."
Changes and novelties in series and movies are automatic and are reflected according to the countries. Titanic, for example, in the United States is on Netflix, and in Spain it is on Disney, and "Kernel knows where you are from and gives you the service of your country".
Among the amazing features of Kernel is that it is free and does not have the annoying advertising that appears in other non-paid applications. "If we complained that people are already tired of being subscribed to many sites - says Molina - we thought we should make it free". His idea is "to monetize it not with advertisements, but by advertising films from producers, both big and small".
Molina observes that "there are very creative people who do not have a production company and that we can offer them a platform on which to promote themselves". Although the project goes much further on the next steps.
"What we are aiming for is the unification of all platforms. That you don't have to have six or seven apps on the TV and that we unify everything in one". Another step they want to take is a space for Apple's Vision Pro augmented reality viewer that allows access from Kernel to the best 3D movies on all platforms.
Despite his youth, Nikias Molina laments at the age of 24 that "young people only watch what is popular on Netflix and, even if they can be very good, they have lost the culture of cinema and classic series that have to see". Its Kernel app wants to remedy that. In just two days, it has become the third free app in the App Store in the United States.
