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

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Post by oldboyFX »

lvs wrote: post #33

Related movies seem to be based on keyword search primarily, unconstrained by genre. But the keywords seem like sketchy content. Inception's keywords are "loss of lover dream sleep subconsciousness defense mechanism redemption," such that the top related movies are "The Science of Sleep" and "Sex and Lucia." Hmm... That doesn't seem quite right to me.

Similar movies are pulled from TMDB API. We have nothing to do with it. But you are right, in some situations similar movies don't make much sense. We have to dig deeper into this and find a good solution.

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

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Post by oldboyFX »

pd0wm wrote: post #18

Looks good! I think you have a small issue with the Rotten Tomatoes API, for example with the movie Lucy ( http://www.movieo.me/240832-lucy ). The page shows a 96% audience score, while the Rotten Tomatoes website says 48% ( http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lucy_2014/ ).

I noticed this aswell, it happens with audience score of some fresh movies (less than 1 month old). We pull this data from OMDB, so we can't really control it. We'll try to fix most of these cases manually.

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

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Post by oldboyFX »

Lichine wrote: post #15

Really love the site and bookmarked. For an anime movie fan it's tough to find a nice place that does all the things you guys do in a user-friendly way, so this is epic. Highest audience rated animation from Japan between 2000 and 2014? Bam, there you go. That's how you help people. :) So thank you for making this. If you need any extra help / feedback in return, lemme know.

We're glad you like it! Thanks for the support ;)

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

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Post by oldboyFX »

kbar13 wrote: post #5

cool! Not really a criticism but more of a question as I'm not a designer by any means: Why do you only use a sliver of horizontal screen space in the middle? I only mention this because it looks slightly unusual on my 27" https://i.imgur.com/rVxPCQG.jpg

We tried stretching content to 100% of 27" viewport but it looked too cluttered. Imagine if you were reading a book where page width was half meter long. I hope you understand what I mean.

We could left align it tho. Didn't really try yet. Thanks for the suggestion!

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

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Post by oldboyFX »

atmosx wrote: post #14

This is wicked. It's slow, probably getting hammered by HN and/or has to retrieve data from various online servers (imdb and whatnot) but it's wicked guys, congrats!

Yep, I feel bad for our server right now. We actually pulled all data (300k+ movies, 800k+ people) into our own database. If it had to retrieve from various sources in real time it would have crashed long time ago. Time to upgrade the servers and cache everything into oblivion I suppose :|

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

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Post by oldboyFX »

switzer wrote: post #30
bananaoomarang wrote: post #21

This is really great, but it would be amazing if it had Netflix and Amazon streaming availability filters.

Second this. Seems like the second most important thing behind the movie ranking is its availability on Netflix, Amazon, AppleTV - e.g. I want to find the best ranked movie on Netflix or Amazon Prime.

We'll do integrations with other services soon. Netflix is unfortunately shutting down their API in 10 days so... yeah.
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