Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey
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Re: Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey
#2Hey HN! 150,000 people bought IMAX tickets to see The Odyssey the first day they went on sale. I was not one of them. So I built a site to watch every 70mm IMAX screening in the US and alert me when good seats open up.
More details on Twitter: https://x.com/andrewtorkbaker/status/2078540178713629119
Re: Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey
#3great work!!
Re: Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey
#4great work!!
Thank you - let me know if you snag some seats!
Re: Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey
#5This is awesome - and I love the look.
Can you add England/Europe listings? :)
Re: Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey
#6This is awesome - and I love the look. Can you add England/Europe listings? :)
On the backlog! The first data provider I integrated with only supports the US.
My advice in the meantime: Codex and Claude Code are much better at correctly reading theater and airline seatmaps than they used to be. If you've got a personal plan / one via your employer, I've had good results just asking them to set a schedule to watch a seatmap directly
Re: Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey
#7I built my own script to get a seat near the middle and towards the back at the Metreon but so far I have not seen many available. My guess is checking 15 minutes is too slow. And also I've been getting rate-limited by Cloudflare. Not sure if I want to pour more resources into getting around it.
The Metreon is running IMAX 70MM showings for 24 hours straight today started at 3AM, [half hour for previews, 3 hour movie, half hour cleanup], then 7AM, 11AM, 3PM, 7PM, 11PM and one on Sunday at 3AM and all showings are basically full. It is crazy.
Re: Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey
#8Is this a very limited release or why not just give it a few weeks and you'll get seats without any trouble?
Re: Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey
#9I built my own script to get a seat near the middle and towards the back at the Metreon but so far I have not seen many available. My guess is checking 15 minutes is too slow. And also I've been getting rate-limited by Cloudflare. Not sure if I want to pour more resources into getting around it. The Metreon is running IMAX 70MM showings for 24 hours straight today started at 3AM, [half hour for previews, 3 hour movie…
+1 to the AMC Metreon being one of the toughest. Of all the theaters I'm monitoring, it's probably in the top 3 of fewest seats opening up. My best guess is that SF is just a market where demand far exceeds supply.
But I am seeing a few every day, and I'm guessing it will get better after opening weekend too. My system checks every 10 mins leading up to 24 hours before showing, then ramps up to every 60 seconds.
Re: Cloudflare - not sure if you're trying to hit AMC's site directly or an alternative. Either way, the first library I reach for in that situation is curl_cffi https://github.com/lexiforest/curl_cffi
Re: Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey
#10Is this a very limited release or why not just give it a few weeks and you'll get seats without any trouble?
For the theaters near me, 70mm IMAX showings even a few weeks out still had only crummy seats. Also, I'm impatient and want to see it soon!