To be honest, how is this any different than Rotten Tomatoes or Netflix's recommendation system?
Our recommendation system might be less powerful, but we think it's simpler, more easy to use because we only implement features we feel are useful.
Rate my startup: http://WatchTh.is is a site for movie lovers
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#12Really into the idea of hovering and showing actions on movie posters. Elegant and fun. How do you guys implement it, btw? jQuery plugin, or else?
However, I think there are too much text on almost every page, dizzy...
I remember Steve mentioned something like "cut off half text and do it again" in his book "Don't Make Me Think". Maybe you wanna try it out.
Cool stuff!
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#13This is great. It would be nice to see the general availability of the movie. I pay for an unlimited blockbuster pass and only get movies from my local blockbuster store. It'd be neat to filter to movies that are still widely available.
Same thing goes for filtering to the age of the movie (e.g. 'new movies' or movies newer than 2 years old vs all movies).
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#14So far so good. But my only choices on the hover are "I want to, I don't want to, I have". I'd like to have "Saw and liked" and "Saw and disliked". Or am I missing something?
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#15Just signed up and haven't had a full chance to go through it all however there are three things I've found so far (neither are going to stop me from using the service).
1) When searching for films, on the search results mousing over the films doesn't reveal the 'add to watch' and 'mark as seen' buttons. This is slightly annoying as I'm normally searching for a film because I know it.
2) Your whole system is designed for finding films however on the film page all there is is a poster image, maybe include links to IMDB, Amazon but also a trailer pulled in from youtube. If I see a film on your site at the moment I'm going wow - let's find a trailer and then leaving the site.
3) (TINY) an autocomplete for the search would be incredibly useful.
I'll try and use the service more tonight and give some more feedback - so far am loving it and will hopefully be using it for the foreseeable future.
Re: Rate my startup: http://WatchTh.is is a site for movie lovers
#16Just signed up and haven't had a full chance to go through it all however there are three things I've found so far (neither are going to stop me from using the service). 1) When searching for films, on the search results mousing over the films doesn't reveal the 'add to watch' and 'mark as seen' buttons. This is slightly annoying as I'm normally searching for a film because I know it. 2) Your whole system is designed…
1) When you search for a movie, the results are fromt tmdb.org, and it's only when you click on it that it's added in our database. That way we don't have to pay for a lot of storage… but you're right, it can be confusing. We'll try to find a solution.
2) We're planning on adding trailers.
3) Maybe later.
Thanks for the feedback.
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#17It's a really nice service, great interface and all but why are you ruining it by forcing people to enter their email address? Kinda put me off at first ;) What would be super cool is if you put a timer on the Discover Movies page - if I'm busy marking movies as seen, not seen or want to see, I think it would be cool if they stayed where they were, and only after I've stopped interacting for a few moments does it rea…
The email address is for the reminders and notifications. A lot of users sign up and forget about the site. We'd like to contact them later if they forgot about their list of movies, for example. Most people (that is, our friends and family) like that movies disappear on /movies once they're added or marked as seen. They don't have to scroll! Ticking an adding movies can become very addictive, and they like that.
Most people (that is, our friends and family) like that movies disappear on /movies once they're added or marked as seen
Fair enough :) It's a nice feature, but when ticking off several at once, I found it a pain to work out where the next movie I wanted to tick off had jumped to.
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#18Seems a lot like Movielens: http://movielens.umn.edu/
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#19If I sign in with my Twitter/Facebook account, what do you do with it? Will things I say on WatchThis site show up on Twitter/Facebook? (I say this as someone looking to sign in and even clicking the Sign In button -- there's no indication of what will happen if I do it). Right now it doesn't look possible to sign up without a Twitter/Facebook account.
We're working on the possibility to allow the users to publish on Facebook/Twitter their comments and favorites if they want to . But we currently don't publish anything on Facebook/Twitter. You're right, we should make it more clear. We disabled the login/password login option because it's easier for our users (automatic nickname suggestion, no password to remember, future Facebook/Twitter publishing) and more inter…
Do you need a Facebook/Twitter account to use the site? I have neither.
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#20Great. Just what I was looking for.
I still couldn't figure out how to fave a movie. Can't find a star in a movie page.
Let users chose "Similar movies" to a movie and add them in recommendations, If you are still not doing that.
PS: Found out how to fave a movie. I can only fave a movie that I've watched. :)