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Matt St. Peter
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1mo ago
Built a movie discovery engine hand curating 43K movies to 75 "vibes"
... 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.
Letterboxd
is the exception that proves the point. Incredible for logging, reviewing, rating, and following critics. Discovery on it is real but it takes work. Hunt down a list someone made, scroll through it, cross-reference your watchlist, repeat. Power users love ... ... Next.js / Vercel, stateless PWA. No native app. 75-register mood taxonomy I hand-curated over months. Each one has an editorial definition + canonical exemplar films. Stuff like warm hug, neon nights, anxious dread, intellectual puzzle, melancholy beauty. Defining "wistful"
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MikeDevLab
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3mo ago
I built a completely free and ad-free alternative to Movie Trackers (like Letterboxd, TV Time, etc.)
... share a project I'm working on, hoping to get some feedback. As a huge movie fan, I used apps like CineTrak for years, until they started imposing limits on lists. I also tried other popular trackers (TV Time,
Letterboxd
, IMDb), but I couldn't find the perfect app for my needs. So, over the last year, I decided to build my own personal
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