Show HN: Movieagent.io – An agent for movie recommendations (with couple mode)

25 pointsposted 2 days ago
by roknovosel

6 Comments

turbostyler

2 days ago

Love the idea, but entering my Letterboxd username just sort of hangs, and I can’t tell if it’s actually doing anything.

roknovosel

2 days ago

Can you try again? I tried it, and it should work now. It hanged due to a bug in my Letterboxd parsing code.

roknovosel

2 days ago

I'm having some issues accessing Letterboxd at the moment. Working on a fix now.

ssoydan

2 days ago

I liked the idea. However, I found the journey too slow. I suppose the agent crawls and scrapes the list of movies from scratch every time for each "journey". It might be better to pre-store or cache some sort of general list and work only on the personalisation in real-time.

A few suggestions: - The end-to-end journey should be completed under 30 seconds. - "Almost There" section shows a list of movie posters that can be removed by the user however there is no information about the movies. I don't know if I would want to remove any or not. - Show IMDB ratings - When removing suggestions, request a reason so that you have better personalisation in the future. - For the final suggested movies, show direct links to the popular streaming platforms to watch them. Add a sharing option through whatsapp etc.

Good luck.

roknovosel

2 days ago

Thank you for the feedback, I agree that the journey is a bit too slow at the moment.