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FilmFish: Humanly curated movie recommendations
- therobot24 10y agoNote that despite advertising as such on their front page, this does not exclusively search the amazon prime selection, rather the entire rent/own/prime availability
- Gargoyle 10y agoWhat I see in their main image at the top is "Find Good Movies to Watch on Prime, Netflix, Hulu, & more."
- hammock 10y agoOnce you find a list you can filter by service
- phillipsull1 10y agoWe search both Amazon and Amazon prime, to give you the option of watching free or paying for a broader selection of films
- heliostatic 10y agoHey, congratulations on launching. Some feedback: - If there are no search results for a movie, let me add it from IMDB/TMDb/etc. - Let me create personal lists (a la Letterboxd) - The rendering on search autocomplete looks... off. (Chrome Version 50.0.2661.102 (64-bit))
- phillipsull1 10y agoThanks for the feedback!
- nihakue 10y agoLooks great, also have some feedback: Some of your trailer and video provider links aren't matching the film described, rather films with similar titles. See the following examples: The link to watch "The Lobster" on Amazon Prime takes me to "My Village, My Lobster", a documentary about lobster fishermen in Nicaragua[1] The link to view the trailer for the indie sci-fi film "The Wall" pulls up a trailer for "Roger Waters The Wall", another documentary, this time about Pink Floyd, possibly.[2] [1]: http://www.amazon.com/My-Village-Lobster-Bil-Yoelin/dp/B00C58SAPC%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAILQBWT2AVLRAOG3Q%26tag%3Dfilmfishcom-20%26linkCode%3Dsp1%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB00C58SAPC http://www.amazon.com/My-Village-Lobster-Bil-Yoelin/dp/B00C5... [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuPyeCX7Fgg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuPyeCX7Fgg
- phillipsull1 10y agoThanks for the catches. Will edit these films, and run some more checks
- hyperbovine 10y agoHumanly?
- dave2000 10y agoHeh! I typed "brazil" and got recommended "boys from brazil". Next I tried "being there" and got recommended "there will be blood". Everything about this needs a lot of work.
- phillipsull1 10y agohey, unfortunately I think you clicked the wrong movie. Here is the Boys from Brazil: https://www.film-fish.com/movieslike/the-boys-from-brazil-1978 https://www.film-fish.com/movieslike/the-boys-from-brazil-19...
- daveguy 10y agoAt first I read it as "humanely" curated movie recommendations. I thought "well, I am glad no curators were harmed in the curation of these recommendations". Then I wondered how you might get inhumanely curated movie recommendations. That is a very dark place.
- ElijahLynn 10y agoLooking forward to test driving it more. So far I am not a fan of the default UX. If I type in a movie, I want a simple list of movies, not categories.
- drcongo 10y agoAny chance of setting the region for the services one uses?
- phillipsull1 10y agoYep, we're working on Netflix UK, Canada, etc.
- nefitty 10y agoI will definitely be diving into this. I've been using Criticker for over 7 years now and its recommendation engine has never failed me. It is based on thousands of user ratings, and customizes to the user according to other similar users. I did love Jinni for a while, their interface was beautiful and their engine amazing, but it pivoted to b2b services. They spit out an Excel file of my ratings so I went back to criticker and had to manually add all my new ratings, ugh. Good luck with your project, I think the space has a lot of opportunity!
- phillipsull1 10y agoThank you, please keep us updated on your experience as you dive in
- poelzi 10y agoNice !!! just browsing through the indy scifi section showed Primer and Upstream Color, two of my favorite movies :)
- cultureulterior 10y agoPity it's not more like goodreads