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Show HN: Croovies – Fixing the way we rate and find movies

16 points by bgnm2000 11y ago

bgnm2000 11y ago
Hey everyone, Here are a few more demo pics: http://imgur.com/a/DQSth http://imgur.com/a/DQSth We built croovies to help people find those "underrated" gems, and give more context to what people did or did not enjoy about a movie. We built a shape rating/searching/recommendation platform in the process (over at BetterContext.com). Let me know if you have any questions!
gotopriapizmo 11y ago
in case of a trilogy , how do i rate the originality of the second & third movie compared to the first ? less or equal ? speaking about trilogy, if the movies number ( example : Matrix I, II, III same for Underworld ..etc ) would appear that would be great ! most of the time it's hard to know which is which only by the title/release-year ... also can i import my imdb watchlist ? finally it looks nice, but it take too much time to rate every single movie i've watched -___-'
- the_vich 11y ago
  In terms of originality, we wanted to keep that up to the user. Personally, I would rate the first as very original and the sequels, albeit less original, still held their own stories (despite being far inferior). There's currently no importing tools but that's a great idea! Thanks for the feedback!
ducuboy 11y ago
Interesting concept and good looks, but the initial movie selection can be irrelevant - it is for me. I'd like to see the results but I couldn't go through skipping that many movies. You could let the user search and select the 14 movies, or integrate with imdb.com if possible and get user's top rated movies for evaluation.
- bgnm2000 11y ago
  Agreed, sorry about that! Hopefully we can remove the onboarding soon - its just a temporary barrier to give users recommendations upon joining.
ghosttie 11y ago
For me it was far too much effort to rate movies - I'll give a thumbs up, I'll rate out of five, but having to analyze exactly what I thought about a bunch of aspects of a lot of movies is just depressing and I quit.
- bgnm2000 11y ago
  I think this is ok - we only really expect power users to rate many movies. Did you try out the "shape search"? We think thats the real value this kind of rating system creates.
jreed91 11y ago
hmmm, I was on my last rating and before I finished, it automatically moved me to the main page.
- kitwalker12 11y ago
  same thing happened to me.
  - bgnm2000 11y ago
    Sorry about that! Working on a fix

16 points by bgnm2000 11y ago

bgnm2000 11y ago

Hey everyone, Here are a few more demo pics: http://imgur.com/a/DQSth http://imgur.com/a/DQSth We built croovies to help people find those "underrated" gems, and give more context to what people did or did not enjoy about a movie. We built a shape rating/searching/recommendation platform in the process (over at BetterContext.com). Let me know if you have any questions!

gotopriapizmo 11y ago

in case of a trilogy , how do i rate the originality of the second & third movie compared to the first ? less or equal ? speaking about trilogy, if the movies number ( example : Matrix I, II, III same for Underworld ..etc ) would appear that would be great ! most of the time it's hard to know which is which only by the title/release-year ... also can i import my imdb watchlist ? finally it looks nice, but it take too much time to rate every single movie i've watched -___-'

the_vich 11y ago
In terms of originality, we wanted to keep that up to the user. Personally, I would rate the first as very original and the sequels, albeit less original, still held their own stories (despite being far inferior). There's currently no importing tools but that's a great idea! Thanks for the feedback!

ducuboy 11y ago

Interesting concept and good looks, but the initial movie selection can be irrelevant - it is for me. I'd like to see the results but I couldn't go through skipping that many movies. You could let the user search and select the 14 movies, or integrate with imdb.com if possible and get user's top rated movies for evaluation.

bgnm2000 11y ago
Agreed, sorry about that! Hopefully we can remove the onboarding soon - its just a temporary barrier to give users recommendations upon joining.

ghosttie 11y ago

For me it was far too much effort to rate movies - I'll give a thumbs up, I'll rate out of five, but having to analyze exactly what I thought about a bunch of aspects of a lot of movies is just depressing and I quit.

bgnm2000 11y ago
I think this is ok - we only really expect power users to rate many movies. Did you try out the "shape search"? We think thats the real value this kind of rating system creates.

jreed91 11y ago

hmmm, I was on my last rating and before I finished, it automatically moved me to the main page.

kitwalker12 11y ago
same thing happened to me.
- bgnm2000 11y ago
  Sorry about that! Working on a fix