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Show HN: I made a movie recommendation system
Hi there,
I'm a Systems Engineering student in my final year. I've started building projects just for fun.
This time, I created a movie recommendation system called Altas Pelis, which finds movies similar to the ones you select based on plot, director, genres, and actors.
It’s tailored specifically for Argentina (in Spanish), but by default, it displays its content in English.
It was a lot of fun to build. I stored the embeddings in a .npy file, and that’s essentially how it recommends movies—by computing cosine similarity when you select a movie.
Sometimes (I’m not sure why or when), the initial page load doesn’t work. Simply refreshing the page fixes it.
- latexr 2y agoKudos on the project. It looks good and is quite clear. Unfortunately, in my tests I didn’t find it particularly good. Every thing I searched for suggested very popular movies most will be familiar with (so not particularly useful) and I don’t think they were at all good recommendations based on the movies I searched for.
- TomasMalamud 2y agoThank you! Yes, that's a problem currently. I added a popularity factor to the recommendations because I found that many of the suggestions for similar movies were hard to find on any streaming service. Maybe I should reduce (significantly) the impact of popularity in the recommendations to avoid this.