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

25 points by roknovosel

by spenjovewkwhalo

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

by TheKnack

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How difficult would it be to add Trakt as an alternative to Letterboxd?
https://trakt.docs.apiary.io/

by turbostyler

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

by ssoydan

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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.