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

25 pointsposted 19 days ago
by roknovosel

7 Comments

turbostyler

19 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

18 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

18 days ago

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

spenjovewkwhalo

16 days ago

Noooooo.

Been working on the same thing, for exactly the same reasons (ohh, another evening scrolling various UIs with my significant other).

Congrats!

ssoydan

18 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

18 days ago

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