Matt St. Peter

Matt St. Peter

Building Perfery · cinema discovery app

About

Solo founder building Perfery (perfery.com) — a film discovery tool for cinephiles. Describe a vibe, find films matching the feeling. Based in Chicago. Particularly interested in editorial consumer products, AI-as-translator patterns, and how small teams ship moats instead of features.

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Built a movie discovery engine hand curating 43K movies to 75 "vibes"

Who it's for

People with overflowing watchlists who still don't know what to watch tonight. Cinephiles who've outgrown "Top 10 Crime Movies." Anyone who wants to find a film by mood, not by genre or popularity. Think "warm hug after a long week" or "neon-soaked stylized action" or "rain-soaked melancholy."

The problem

Recommendation engines mostly run on collaborative filtering. Netflix, Prime, the whole streaming layer. Same 200 films surface for everyone. A 120-year catalog of cinema never gets touched.

Jiaqi Lu

5d ago

How many "retries" does it take you to get the AI response you expected?

Hey PH mates!

I ve been tracking my own workflow lately while chatting around with ChatGPT and Gemini, and I noticed a painful pattern: I had the whole picture in my mind, but I constantly forget some edge cases or tiny technical constraints on my first try.

I hit send, wait 30 seconds, realise the AI guessed wrong, tweak it, and retry. It s an absolute token-waster and a massive productivity killer.

I'm trying to prototype a lightweight extension to intercept these "blind spots" in real-time right inside the input box before hitting send. But I'm curious about how you lot deal with this:

Mona Kohlhaas

7d ago

I tried to vibe-code my way to a SaaS… and failed

Last summer, the idea for my SaaS, Xolora, started to take shape. Around the same time, the concept of vibe coding was blowing up. As a non-technical founder, it sounded like a dream come true. No coding experience? No problem, just let AI handle it.

The beginning was incredibly promising. Using Emergent made me feel unstoppable. I was seeing my idea come to life.

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