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Movie recommendations based on your personal taste
- vmarsy 10y agoIs this supposed to be a Show HN? Where does it get your move list from? I know I rated a lot of movies on my rotten-tomatoes profile, can this be used? EDIT: Also, it's not clear that you can start using the product without Facebook, I like the fact that it lets you rate a couple movies before asking you to sign-up (with Facebook or with a regular email/password)
- butz 10y agoWould be awesome to have import option from CSV file. After jinni.com folded, I've been tracking my movie ratings in spreadsheet file.
- tluyben2 10y agoDid this work for anyone? Meaning; anyone got good (for them) suggestions? Where does the data set come from? Am I blind or did I miss the button for 'I did not see this movie'? Because I didn't see quite a lot of the ones that I was asked my opinion on. All in all, I always like these kind of things, but asking me if I like that Star Wars drivel 3 times in a row and then asking me if I liked 4 movies I never saw skewed my results a bit I think. Keep improving though! If I can get only one 'wow' movie I never saw recommended, I would be really happy.
- johnjuanlin 10y agoThere's a "Haven't Seen" button right below the 4 circles. (At least for me :/)
- tluyben2 10y agoA there is not for me (Chrome on Linux). I found it by trying some zooming options. Thanks.
- projectileboy 10y agoI'm impressed. It gave me what I thought to be a small, weak data set, but the recommendations were better than those I get from Netflix, which has much, much more of my data to work with.
- maxxxxx 10y agoI was surprised too. I didn't really connect to any of the choices during building the profile but the recommendations were right on.
- Swizec 10y agoSame here. It showed me a bunch of blockbusters that I either haven't seen, were just kinda good, or even meh. And came up with amazing recommendations of really cool movies I've either watched and loved, or haven't seen but always wanted to. Even the top pick for "movies from this year" was the one movie where I saw a trailer and said WANT.
- taeric 10y agoWhat makes the rankings better than you get from Netflix? I'm impressed that it managed to suggest Clue to me, but I haven't seen the rest, so can't really say if I would like them. (More, if it just suggests movies I've already seen and liked... hard to say it did a good job, or that I'm just predictable in cliques of movies. :) )
- lifwanian 10y agoThe point of this site is to give you recommendations you haven't seen. I hate it when all the recommended movies on Netflix are all movies I've seen and can't get rid off...
- ffwd 10y agoThese recommendations are pretty crazy (in a good way). All my favorite sci-fi, comedies and thrillers in one list. Impressed. Going to check all the ones I haven't seen
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- a_small_island 10y agoCool user flow. I bet you could hit me with another facebook login request with the "see your results" popup, and I might not even mind it. That said, I won't click it.
- kozikow 10y agoI am curious why you used the user-closeness model. Matrix factorisation won the Netflix prize: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1608614 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1608614 . What made you go for user closeness?
- lifwanian 10y agoWe've tested other models but collaborative filtering gave us the most "human"/natural results. Also, didn't Netflix toss the matrix factorization after the contest? IIRC they decided to keep their current algorithm.
- bunderbunder 10y agoInterestingly, my sense has been that Netflix's recommendation engine does a poorer job now than it did 10 years ago. I always assumed that it was because they used to use fairly straightforward collaborative filtering, and now they seem to be heavily focused on looking for stuff that's somehow cosmetically similar to other stuff I've watched. So, like, instead of saying, "You liked Nosferatu? Well, other people who liked Nosferatu also liked Ran, so let's suggest that," it now goes, "Hey, that's a vampire movie! How about Blade?"
- eevilspock 10y agoI love the fact that the ratings are semantic, and limited to four easy to understand values rather than 5 stars: Awful (Can I have those two hours back?) Meh (Not great, but better than nothing to kill time, escape or veg out) Good (I enjoyed watching it) Amazing (I'd watch it again and recommend it to friends without hesitation) With 5 stars, everyone interprets 2, 3 and 4 stars differently, e.g.: Horrible Bad Meh Good Best Bad Meh Good Very-Good Faves Even the same person over time will not use a 5-star scale consistently. Even when I try to be consistent (I use the latter values for Netflix), if I like a movie but don't love it I don't know whether to give it 3 or 4 stars. On different days in different moods I'll make different choices. I've no doubt that unreliable ranking data made Netflix recommendations harder, and impacted their mix of recommendation algorithms -- i.e. leaning more heavily on those that work despite rating scale inconsistencies. I'd expect the mix that works best for Taste.io will be different.
- sqtomato 10y agoI have to agree that the rating options are very refreshing and easier to keep consistency over time. It also forces a choice between positive and negative which I'd imagine helps the algorithm learn things faster. Hmm...
- pacomerh 10y agowhat database (movies API) are you hitting ?
- lifwanian 10y agoCurrently using iTunes but will be moving to TMDB soon
- mcjames1984 10y agoVery impressive!
- mcjames1984 10y agoVery impressive!
- RestlessMind 10y agoI already maintain a list of movies to watch based on whatever interests me on netflix + random lists on internet. I took their quiz and their recommendations had good overlap with my existing list. Impressive!
- jim-greer 10y agoAre others getting a lot of recommendations for old movies? I have to be in just the right mood for a movie from the 1950s or earlier...
- lifwanian 10y agoYou can use the filter on the browse page to filter out old movies, or simply hide them!
- graeme 10y agoVery interesting. This did two things: 1. Correctly identified a bunch of movies I had seen and really liked + some promising ones I hadn't seen, and 2. Showed me that I don't like any new movies None of the 2016 movies were over 70% for me, whereas it identified some movies I had seen and loved as 97+%. How does this work?
- careersuicide 10y agoI had a similar experience. Every highly rated recommendation was either one of my favorite movies or on my list of movies I need to see very soon but haven't made the time for yet. It knew to put The Holy Mountain at 100% based off me loving the new Mad Max, feeling ambivalent about the Star Wars prequels, hating the 2007 Tranformers movie, and thinking Anchor Man was good but not great. Like, how the hell? It's spot on, but how did it get that from my input? Is there more info on how this thing is getting its results? I would love to see even a sketchy outline of the algorithm.
- johnloeber 10y agoVery cool. My list of recommendations included movies I greatly liked, as well as ones that have for a long time been on my to-watch list.
- Jasamba 10y agoSuggestion of 'Spirited Away' based purely on my ratings of X-Men and Saw? Spot on! I would love to read about the algorithm you guys are using (in an upcoming paper perhaps? :))
- graeme 10y agoIndeed! I'm baffled. Is there a dataset of film style this is drawing on, or is it purely based on prior user trends?
- tlogan 10y agoVery impressive. Recommendation are excellent - I noticed that recommendations are NOT about movie genre but about how the movies are made, their point, story, etc. I.e., I hate when Netflix thinks that I like all stupid vampire movies because I liked Thirst [1]. [1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0762073/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0762073/
- advisedwang 10y agoNice! I'd love to be able to point it to my IMDB data. Both because it's got a comprehensive list of my ratings, but also so that it knows which movies I've seen to avoid recommending them!
- douche 10y agoHas this been around for a while, and gotten a recent facelift? I remember something very similar (and may have even been called Taste) back in 2013.
- lifwanian 10y agoThe site is only a few months old, if you could remember the other site I'd love to know.
- rahimnathwani 10y agoI was looking for something a few months ago, and a friend recommended this site he'd been using for many years: http://www.filmtipset.se/ http://www.filmtipset.se/
- greggyb 10y agoIs there any way to filter the recommendations down to the offerings from various content providers? E.g. 'Available streaming on Netflix'
- lifwanian 10y agoComing soon!
- greggyb 10y agoAwesome, thanks for this.
- cpeterso 10y agoI've rated many films on Netflix. It would be cool to be able to import my ratings from Netflix (or similar services like Amazon Video or IMDb) into Taste.io. Your service would get a lot more data to work with. :) So far the recommendations have been very good and I've bookmarked a couple films to watch later.
- batmantheman 10y agoThat suggested some obscure movies that I like, wow!
- bradbeattie 10y agoPlaying around with it I'm finding the interface notably more friendly than MovieLens.org for inputting ratings, but the results seem worse.
- mrob 10y agoCan you please show release dates? Sometimes I'm not sure if a movie is the original or a remake. EDIT: The release date is included in the URL for the movie.
- rekwah 10y agoI've love to see this integrated with a TV/Movie scrobbler such as trakt.tv.
- enimodas 10y agoNice, the rating consensus system makes me curious about some stats, like for all users, the best movies with high consensus, and a list of good movies with least consensus.
- lifwanian 10y agoInteresting question, just ran a quick analysis for all movies rated 4.5+ star Highest Consensus: 1. Whiplash 2. 12 Angry Men 3. Se7en Most Controversial: 1. Birdman 2. Citizen Kane 3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Mithaldu 10y ago> 1. Birdman I knew that abomination was polarizing, but i did not quite expect that.
- Quasimoto3000 10y agoAbomination? That was oone of my favorite movies of all time!
- Mithaldu 10y ago;) It's an emotion vs intellect thing. Birdman is like cocaine to people who like the emotional side, and like hydrochloric acid for people who want a movie to be rational. I'm just surprise the numbers even bear that out like that.
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- rurban 10y agoThere must be problem with your dataset then. Not enough people? Everyone in this field knows that Napoleon Dynamite is the most controversial, ever.
- fnordprefect 10y agoNice work. ps - millennium has two Ns in it
- OisinMoran 10y agoWow this great! Beautifully designed and delighted to see someone using 4 options rather than 5 it's so much easier. Profile is at 90% and have only heard of 3 in all my top matches, very interesting. Ugestu from 1953 is the top at 100%, what exactly does the 100% mean? Excited to watch it now!
- garbage_stain 10y agoI had fun playing with this, but what I noticed is that the recommendations started well, but as I rated more movies, they became less and less accurate. Is it possible that whatever technique you are using to model individual users is overfitting to noise in their ratings?
- flopit 10y agoNice work ! But : "About us" (http://www.taste.io/about http://www.taste.io/about): There is nothing about you... You ask people for their names, email addresses and/or to link to their facebook accounts but you don't return the courtesy of identifying yourself or your company. You make some promises and cite some laws about privacy (http://www.taste.io/privacy-policy http://www.taste.io/privacy-policy) but if you don't say who you are, we can't even be sure that those apply to you...
- Animats 10y agoThese guys are trying hard to hide their identity. No business name or address. No SSL cert. Anonymously registered domain in Panama. Hosted by a telecom in Sweden. Nothing in Google, Facebook, or LinkedIn. The "Privacy" page gives a hint. It gives a contact address of "contact@ymal.io". "ymal.io" just redirects back to "taste.io". But WHOIS gives some info for "ymal.io". It's registered to [redacted]. That location is a 5-story building, but the most likely location is Spark Labs, which is a co-working space.[1] $550 a month for a desk. And, yes, "ymal.io" is listed as a member of Spark Labs.[2] So, if you need to find them, that's where to look. [1] http://www.desksurfing.net/desks/1045-spark-labs http://www.desksurfing.net/desks/1045-spark-labs [2] http://spark-labs.co/members/ http://spark-labs.co/members/
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- anoncow 10y agoSome of us have to hide identities as it can affect our current employment.
- mtmail 10y agoFrom a user's perspective it looks shady and shouldn't be the basis one starts a business on.
- flopit 10y agonot so hard to find using OP's nickname on twitter... If they are really hosted in Sweden, does the collected data is under Swedish law and not US as mentioned on privacy page ?
- lazyant 10y agoI don't think I got good recommendations (based on the ones I've seen) but then again I have peculiar tastes; I think Lilo and Stich is a great movie and se7en is a meh movie (and I can argue why).
- a_small_island 10y ago>and se7en is a meh movie (and I can argue why). I challenge you.
- lazyant 10y agowell, I've seen it twice and it's a fine movie but I don't see there's anything special about it, the serial killer using a theme has been done a million times, the only twist is the motivation/endgame of the killer in this case. Acting is good and overall the movie is entertaining but I fail to see anything other than a build-up for the grand finale (goo but not mind-blowing or totally unexpected), it's a 3.5/5 or 4/5 for me, still can't see why it consistently shows up in top movie listings. OTOH I haven't been wowed by a movie since The Matrix so I'm probably just an old man yelling at the clouds.
- BlytheSchuma 10y agoSuggestions: * -Awful-Meh-Okay-Good-Great-Amazing- *Show the year next to the title of the movie when in browsing view.
- masters3d 10y agoSo I am tired of having to manually rate every movie for every new service. Why isn't there a way to keep all my ratings as an interchangble file? I spent about 2 hours ratings abou 1000 movies. I've done the same before for Netflix etc. seems like a huge waste of time, we need an open API for all these services.
- OJFord 10y agohttps://trakt.tv/ https://trakt.tv/ Alternatively I've seen more than a few things use IMDb, or Rotten Tomatoes.
- dawnerd 10y agoTrakt used to be excellent until they decided to redesign everything. I tried giving the new site a chance but ultimately decided to stop my VIP subscription and move on.
- barnt 10y agoWe'd love to hear any feedback or suggestions you have via our support site. That's perfectly fine if you've decided to move on. Just wanted to point out the site has evolved a ton since the initial v2 launch over 1.5 years ago if you're interested in giving Trakt another chance :)
- Ham5ter 10y agoMaybe my fingers are to fat. Everytime I tried to Click/Touch the skip Option, it rated a movie good...
- basdp 10y agoThis site begs for a IMDB rating import function... I've rated hundreds on movies on there, but I'm not prepared to do it all again on a different site while all the data is already for the grabs..!
- basdp 10y agoBTW, loving the idea and already found some promising new movies to watch!
- dawnerd 10y agoAppears I reached the end of all the movies. Says theres only 1715 movies. Either thats incorrect or there's a very tiny amount of movies imported.
- ptrincr 10y agoThis is good. Impressive. It managed to recommend me Soyaris, a Russian film based on the same book Solaris was based on. Great film.
- puranjay 10y agoSome pretty nice recommendations! I got Barton Fink, Throne of Blood...movies I'd never think about otherwise
- lucb1e 10y agoI just spent a good hour adding every movie I can remember seeing. The suggestions still look like ORDER BY RAND() of every movie made since the 60s. What a waste of time, again. I had a similar experience on tanktop.tv a year or two ago, though that did a slightly better job of at least suggesting modern (well-made) movies.
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- threepipeproblm 10y agoFor me this was significantly worse than Netflix and others I've tried. Looks like others have fared better.
- redcalx 10y agoIt would be cool if you could use this to find people with similar taste, i.e. mentally and geographically proximate.
- tamtamtamtamtam 10y agoTaste is awesome bc allows me to discover new movies while having fun rating them!
- ivm 10y agoIt would be great to have my ratings in a public profile. After getting to 94% I can send it to friends so they can check out if they've seen all movies I consider amazing and good. By the way, Friday evening is a bad day for a "ShowHN" post.
- kstenerud 10y agoOne thing I've noticed is that it's not very good with sequels. For example, I liked the original Planet of the Apes, but I've absolutely hated every single one since. Yet it keeps recommending more sequels even though I've marked them "awful". I've also noticed that it won't stop recommending various Lord of the Rings movies, even though I've marked every single one of them as awful. I'm still not sure if the recommendations are good or not. I'm at 92% now, and half the recommendations it gives that I've already seen are bad, so I'm not inclined to believe the ones I haven't seen yet. I also noticed that it started out with lots of sci-fi and action movies, to the point that I had to start manually searching for romance movies just to get them to even show up. Basically, after the first 4-5 movies, you're stuck in a genre.
- nkurz 10y agoMy impressions in order from positive to negative are that the visual appearance is great, the UI is OK, and the actual recommendations are poor. For the UI, I think a verb like "Rate" would be much better than "I've seen this". I like the in-place popup with the stars. Unlike some others, I felt like having 4 options didn't let me distinguish between movies that were enjoyable, and movies that I'd call my favorites. Showing a movie summary on hover would be helpful. Clicking the image and then going back scrolls to the top of the page if you rated the movie on the details page. Inability to click to see details on movies already rated was awkward, as sometimes I'd rate a movie and then be unsure if it was the movie I thought it was. Would be nice to know if "Hide" implies "Not Interested" for the recommendations, or just doesn't show it again. I liked the ability to just jump in and rate things, but forced sign up to proceed felt slimy. Better to nag here ("Your ratings might be lost if you leave the site before you create an account") than sneak up on the user and force them to comply. If it hadn't been a Show HN, I would have bailed here. The real problem for me was the quality of recommendations. I rated 300+ movies, and didn't feel like I got any recommendations for movies that I felt at all compelled to act on. I don't think any of the recommendations were ones that I'd rate as "Amazing", and I didn't see any drop off in "likability" from the top to middle of the list. Obviously some of this is preconception (maybe I'd love that particular Disney film despite disliking all the others) but preconception needs to be considered to build the user's trust. The recommended movies that I knew about were generally in the "classic that everyone likes but I don't care about" class. It felt like many of the movies that I didn't know about were mostly in the "popular sequel to a movie I've already ranked as awful". If I've already ranked multiple Batman and Superman movies as awful, suggesting that I have a 63% match the "Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice" makes it hard to trust your methods. Much of the problems for me are probably caused by the small dataset you are using, not just in terms of ratings but in the catalog itself. I was able to find some of my favorite movies by searching directly for them (Primer, Adam's Apples, Once Were Warriors), but many just weren't in your dataset (Ararat, Metropolitan, Fast Cheap and out of Control, Incident at Loch Ness). Bootstrapping a recommendation engine is difficult, but for me I didn't feel I got any return on effort. The things that would most improve the site for me would be browsing with item-by-item similarity (people who loved this also loved), ability to directly see ratings by people with similar tastes (needs to be opt-in), ability to see "sandbox" recommendations (if I liked X and hated Y, and if my wife like Y but hated Z, what movie would be both enjoy?), ability to browse by director (I presume others would want actor), and ability to filter recommendations by date (in my case, exclude any pre-1980 films). Good luck!
- OJFord 10y agoWhat I've always hoped for from a service like this is explicit sequel recommendation. Of course, you might get it organically since the original film and its sequel are presumably pretty similar, but it would be nice to have some kind of list of unseen sequels for those films which you gave a positive rating.