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Re: Show HN: A database for browsing and discovering movies

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Post by obviouslygreen »

shared4you wrote: post #60

Missing feature: Sort by language. This is especially important for massively multilingual countries like India. Choosing 'India' lists hundreds of movies, but I would like to sort it by language (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, etc.)

That's an interesting and potentially useful idea, but if you go down that road, I think it'd be immediately relevant to also go into available subtitle languages. It also really depends on where this site gets its data from, as the "from [country x]" filtering can yield some questionable results.

Re: Show HN: A database for browsing and discovering movies

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Post by obviouslygreen »

decisiveness wrote: post #113

This is a really good idea, and a useful app. Only suggestion: Number of ratings/reviews should hold more weight in the sorting algorithm. e.g. Hollywood Buddha (2003) shouldn't be the RT Audience Rating second highest ranked film all time.

While I agree, I don't think attempting to perfect a ranking algorithm is useful beyond a certain point. At least for the topics I checked, it's reasonably close; there were a lot I didn't agree with, but then if it yielded my exact personal ranking, a lot of others wouldn't agree with it. So it's a bit of a roll of the dice, which in a way is nice, since there's just no ideal algorithm to be found. Getting close, which in my opinion they have, is pretty great.

Re: Show HN: A database for browsing and discovering movies

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Post by izzypark »

The subtle UI stuff makes for a great user experience. Were there any other sites that gave you inspiration for the user interface? I didn't know this type of frontend UI was possible just using SCSS/jquery/coffeescript, hope is alive again! Also, APIs just let you download all their data into your own database? Thanks again!

Re: Show HN: A database for browsing and discovering movies

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Post by darylfritz »

izzypark wrote: post #123

The subtle UI stuff makes for a great user experience. Were there any other sites that gave you inspiration for the user interface? I didn't know this type of frontend UI was possible just using SCSS/jquery/coffeescript, hope is alive again! Also, APIs just let you download all their data into your own database? Thanks again!

I'm not sure if it was a direct inspiration, but the UI reminds me of Vdio (http://blog.rdio.com/us/2013/04/introducing-vdio.html). I can't link to the actual site as it has since shut down.

Re: Show HN: A database for browsing and discovering movies

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Post by oldboyFX »

stevephillips wrote: post #116

Good effort. Finally I can see and sort by RT rating which I trust way more than imdb. You could also somehow link it to "popcorn time" then it will complete the loop. Also a separate section for "available on netflix" will make this indispensable. You could even add a weekly newsletter that shows... 1. new movies on netflix. 2. must watch classics etc base on my taste 4. new episodes of [walking dead] available and…

We'd love to include torrent links or even stream directly but we're too scurred :The netflix is shutting down their api but we'll do our best go get their data.

Re: Show HN: A database for browsing and discovering movies

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Post by oldboyFX »

izzypark wrote: post #123

The subtle UI stuff makes for a great user experience. Were there any other sites that gave you inspiration for the user interface? I didn't know this type of frontend UI was possible just using SCSS/jquery/coffeescript, hope is alive again! Also, APIs just let you download all their data into your own database? Thanks again!

This redesign concept inspired me to start working on Movieo: https://www.behance.net/gallery/12321857/IMDB-Redesign

I took from some concepts by Julien Renvoye aswell. Check out his dribble.

Re: Show HN: A database for browsing and discovering movies

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Post by oldboyFX »

EGreg wrote: post #128

Is this being powered by freebase? I was surprised that the site wasn't user powered - that is to say, it is basically a UI with filters to browse an existing database. Tell me if I'm right.

We pulled all data from TMDB and OMDB into our own database.
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