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It would be great if everybody gave their opinion about the recommendation systems they've tried. I'll start: Netflix < MovieLens < Criticker < Coollector Movie Database

This app already exists for Netflix (25 countries) and Hulu: https://www.coollector.com/#netflix

It's clearly what happened to Netflix. Do you remember when Netflix was the infamous leader in movie recommendations? Do you remember the Netflix prize?

Netflix recommendation system is a joke today, but it used to be much better in the past. Executives have decided to dumb it down for marketing reasons (promoting their own shows, …

I don't like ML frameworks (Tensorflow, etc...), maybe it's because I haven't tried them. My understanding is that they're like a magic black box: you input some data, you adjust s…

As long as the users rate how much they like something, my method could easily work with songs or books or anything.

Thank you! It could not be free if it was a website because calculating the recommendations uses quite a lot of CPU. It's fine when run on each user's computer, but it would requir…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15607383 Amazing story! I don't know if it's true or if you're delusional, but I'm inclined to believe you as it would explain why Netflix reco…

I feel for you. It must be a huge disappointment to see what they've done to your work. Netflix recommendation system used to be very good a few years ago.

> That is part of the reason the recommender has been degrading over the years. Netflix is clearly promoting its original shows. Do you think your system is still in use now that t…

I've built a recommender system for my movie database app "Coollector Movie Database". It's based on Collaborative filtering and it took me 2 years to implement. I built it from sc…

Flixbox is USA only, but there are some websites like unogs.com who can handle more countries. In addition to a more convenient browsing of the catalog, if you also want an alterna…

Thankfully there are alternative interfaces to browse the Netflix catalog: https://www.coollector.com/index.html#netflix