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Re: Show HN: Omive – Find movies based on genre, rating, directors and more

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walterbell wrote: post #25
aaronblohowiak wrote: post #16

If you like hacking on this sort of thing with a much larger dataset (hundreds of thousands of movies / millions of episodes) across dozens of streaming, dvd, vod, ratings, etc sources please reach out -- ablohowiak@fan.tv . You can see our current implementation of this on the iPad app under "smart browse". We're starting to work on our next implementation of smart browse soon. Our problem is also fun because we int…

Is there a TV/Movie equivalent to http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz ?

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Re: Show HN: Omive – Find movies based on genre, rating, directors and more

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Post by shire »

jdprgm wrote: post #29

Obviously a good UI and everything. I would suggest adding rating as an PG, R, etc as another filter. Also if there was some way to integrate with netflix and filter out all the movies I have already seen from my watched list. There should be a third party provider that keeps track of watched movies/tv shows and your ratings for them that could provide an api to the likes of netflix and anyone else that wanted it. Th…

Rating PG, R, etc would be very cool because I watch movies with younger siblings.

Re: Show HN: Omive – Find movies based on genre, rating, directors and more

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Post by dewey »

staunch wrote: post #3

Great job! I've long wanted to work on this problem because I think there's so much more that can be done. You definitely seem headed in the right direction. 1. I want to follow all my favorite movie-makers and actors and get an email every time they make something new. 2. I want to go through all the movies they've made that I missed. 3. I want to discover new great people to follow by finding great movies. In order…

I'm in the same boat, I was always looking for a way to get notifications when a new movie from a certain director or with actors I like is available, get a list with all the movies they were starring in or just get notifications if a movie produced in a certain country is available.

Ironically the solution which works best are the notification settings from Gazelle [0] based private movie trackers.

I blame the lack of sites offering this feature on the very restrictive IMDB API which isn't exactly fun to work with and expensive to get access to if you don't want to work with a dump which doesn't even include the latest data.

[0] https://github.com/WhatCD/Gazelle

Re: Show HN: Omive – Find movies based on genre, rating, directors and more

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Post by dewey »

pritambaral wrote: post #33

I'd suggest a way to share the current filter state. For example, if I want to send the list to my friends.

I agree, some kind of permalink would be neat so it's possible to bookmark a selection you want to go through later.

Re: Show HN: Omive – Find movies based on genre, rating, directors and more

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Post by Chronic29 »

dewey wrote: post #35
staunch wrote: post #3

Great job! I've long wanted to work on this problem because I think there's so much more that can be done. You definitely seem headed in the right direction. 1. I want to follow all my favorite movie-makers and actors and get an email every time they make something new. 2. I want to go through all the movies they've made that I missed. 3. I want to discover new great people to follow by finding great movies. In order…

I'm in the same boat, I was always looking for a way to get notifications when a new movie from a certain director or with actors I like is available, get a list with all the movies they were starring in or just get notifications if a movie produced in a certain country is available. Ironically the solution which works best are the notification settings from Gazelle [0] based private movie trackers. I blame the lack…

I'd rather stick to Google for searching movies.

Re: Show HN: Omive – Find movies based on genre, rating, directors and more

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Post by chatmasta »

Damn, this is an awesome interface. Nice job.

I did have one super minor moment of confusion. I'm on iOS 7 on an iPhone 5. I tapped "genre" then "action," and then my choice appeared at the bottom of my screen in the white triangle. I did not realize there was more content if I scrolled down the page, so I was confused why nothing changed except the appearance of my choice.

So I would recommend finding a way to make it clear scrolling is available if you can't tell.

Re: Show HN: Omive – Find movies based on genre, rating, directors and more

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Post by Ecio78 »

cipher0 wrote: post #9
nawitus wrote: post #4

I think the best site for finding movies is this: https://www.icheckmovies.com/ The lists are very addicting.

I was contemplating working on something similar due to my frustration with not remembering which episode I watched last of something, thanks! [Edit] The website has "keep track of all the movies and TV series you have seen" in the list of features but I wasn't able to add a show and check off episodes as I expected when I read that.

If you have an Android phone I'll suggest you to try the app called Series Guide: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.battlelanc... I use it exactly for that purpose. According to the page you can sync the info with https://trakt.tv/ (so maybe you're more interested in it than the app) but I found the app really handy, you finish an episode and you flag it on the app, that's it!

Re: Show HN: Omive – Find movies based on genre, rating, directors and more

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Post by SNvD7vEJ »

Just excellent. Great user interface, simple and efficient.

What is the rating and vote count based on? IMDB? RottenTomatoes?

Maybe an option to sort the list would be useful.

Edit:

The search for key words work a bit unexpected.

Typing a title, for example "Things We Lost in the Fire", returns many seemingly random movies, but not the movie actually named "Things We Lost in the Fire"

Maybe a sort based on the Levenshtein distance could be used to sort the result when seraching on key words?

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