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Show HN: I made a personal Movies page, tracking everything I've watched
- qwerty456127 4y agoIt seems you haven't watched much. Just 3 TV series and just 9 movies. I didn't know there even are people who watched this little in their lives. By the way I once knew an magically amazing website to mark what you watched and discover what to watch. It was Jinni.com. It was an absolutely mind-blowing experience to browse. It would present you a collage of posters, you would mark what did you watch and how did it feel and it would suggest you movies/shows similar in various aspects (atmosphere, mood, specific themes in the plot, genre and more subtle ways). It also had a social function so people could share and see what others watched I can hardly describe how much I loved it, it was a perfect recommendation engine, no where to be challenged by any else existing to the day. For me it's a tragedy it closed and only makes money by selling their data to adtech corporations apparently.
- bhargav 4y agoYou can checkout letterboxd.com. Does most of what you like
- sankalpdomore 4y agoI've watched 1000+ movies & shows. Just started to track them last month on my personal site. I can always use IMDB or LetterBoxd but I want to de-risk loosing all my work if a 3rd party company tomorrow decides to shut down or gets hacked. With my own data, I always will have a backup and lifetime uptime guarantee.
- psnehanshu 4y agoMovie data isn't that valuable information to protect for an individual. Instead you can try making a contacts syncing software, or email storage, or even WhatsApp media backup system.
- sankalpdomore 4y agoIt's not about privacy, but loosing my data from a 3rd party hack or attack. I can always backup my own code (json file) locally vs. asking letterboxd or imdb to backup my data.
- psnehanshu 4y agoYes, but again, for most people, movie data is far less valuable than say contacts.