Where are you getting your data from? It seems like you're running into problems with new shows/shows that share the same name as movies. For instance Utopia (UK sci-fi/thriller/mystery) or Fargo (TV show).
Show HN: Omive – Find movies based on genre, rating, directors and more
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Re: Show HN: Omive – Find movies based on genre, rating, directors and more
#42This is seriously cool, and fast! Great UI!
Thanks for helping me find new stuff to watch on Netflix :)
EDIT: Feature requests!
* Please let me star movies for later!
* Please make it auto-scroll when you hit the bottom!
It looks like you DIY'ed this up with a bit of jQuery, am I right? Super cool.
Re: Show HN: Omive – Find movies based on genre, rating, directors and more
#43Just 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 Levens…
The rating count seems to be based on IMDB (the name of the argument passed to Omive's server is imdb_rating).
Re: Show HN: Omive – Find movies based on genre, rating, directors and more
#44This is great until it sells out to Amazon like IMDB or Goodreads. The problem isn't the interface. The problem is our relationship with our own data. It's no longer ours.
Re: Show HN: Omive – Find movies based on genre, rating, directors and more
#45Imdb already has this, it's called advanced search
Re: Show HN: Omive – Find movies based on genre, rating, directors and more
#46This is great until it sells out to Amazon like IMDB or Goodreads. The problem isn't the interface. The problem is our relationship with our own data. It's no longer ours.
I wonder why a community metadata-base was possible for music (http://musicbrainz.org/), but not TV/movies?
Re: Show HN: Omive – Find movies based on genre, rating, directors and more
#47Interesting service, but your UX could be better on big screens (haven't tested on phone/tablet). I click on one of the tabs like Genre or Year and I'm presented with the 1500+ pixels wide hodgepodge of tags. It's very hard to read and puts a lot of mental strain on visitor to scan through that list of tags and find the one of interest.
Re: Show HN: Omive – Find movies based on genre, rating, directors and more
#48I'd love to know how you got the initial data on your servers. Did you just do a massive API scrape of IMDB, Amazon, Netflix etc? How do you keep it up to date?