Movieo
Consumer and social
movie discovery
SHOW HN2014
296points
157comments
#50of 2,272 in 2014
Top 3%of 2014 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
39 positive, 31 neutral or asking, 10 mixed, 20 critical, out of 100 comments about the project. Thread score +0.22.
Execution: 6 for, 14 againstDesign: 13 for, 1 againstIdea: 10 for, 3 againstPerformance: 2 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, beautiful UI and good filtering
From 4 comments
Great interface. How about adding a small trailer button on each movie preview as well. Would save people time of clicking for a movie and then going for the trailer. Just my…
adi0x90 on HNThis is brilliant, specially the UI. Loved it!
roshansingh on HNWell done. I always have a very bad time when trying to figure out which movie I want to watch, most websites have bad navigation / filtering capacities / just unfriendly in…
_jb on HNBeautiful website, I love the look and feel. One suggestion, I wish I could navigate between movies with the arrow keys in the close-up view.
frakkingcylons on HN
Fast front end
From 2 comments
Very performant on the front end. Impressive.
simonmales on HNIt's funny... I'm so used to waiting a few seconds for Netflix's tooltips to appear I was very pleasantly surprised when I started browsing this.
grimmfang on HN
Useful for discovering movies
From 2 comments
Wow, after playing with it for 60 seconds my wife and I found a Humphrey Bogart movie we had never heard of that we are now going to watch. You should work on adding Amazon video…
artursapek on HNI'm impressed. I've already discovered a few movies I'm adding to my queue.
wooyi on HN
Objections
No filter for Netflix or Amazon streaming availability
From 3 comments
This is pretty sweet, but wish there was a way to filter to show movies available on netflix.
djrconcepts on HNThis is really great, but it would be amazing if it had Netflix and Amazon streaming availability filters.
bananaoomarang on HNIf there was a filter for "Available to stream on Netflix", I'd be all over this.
rsivapr on HN
Login with Twitter, Google or Facebook failed
From 4 comments
Login with Twitter doesn't work. After authorizing on Twitter.com, the "Please sign in" modal just stays there.
rahilsondhi on HNOne issue is that i am not able to actually login with Twitter or Google+. Facebook seems to be working Google http://movieo.me/auth/failure?message=csrf_detected&strategy=google…
stevoo on HNLogin with Twitter and Google doesn't work. After authorizing , the "Please sign in" modal just stays there. I don't use facebook as a policy. So I did not try it.
sharmi on HNFacebook sign-in doesn't work. Wanted to put things on watchlist, but didn't want to enable Post to FB.
Beltiras on HN
Inaccurate related movies and country tags
From 3 comments
Related movies seem to be based on keyword search primarily, unconstrained by genre. But the keywords seem like sketchy content. Inception's keywords are "loss of lover dream…
lvs on HNthis is pretty but man is it bad at recommending similar movies in the documentary genre. it might as well be giving completely random results: http://www.movieo.me/14002-baraka
nyolfen on HNthis is pretty and looks pretty nice to use. I filtered by "France", and the list actually got only 1 french movie out of 5-10.
jypepin on HN
Slow loading
From 2 comments
This is wicked. It's slow, probably getting hammered by HN and/or has to retrieve data from various online servers (imdb and whatnot) but it's wicked guys, congrats!
atmosx on HNGood work, one thing I'll note is that the page was very slow to load on my phone, it look around 40 seconds?
mrmondo on HN
Requests
Hide or mark already-seen movies
From 2 comments
Looks good, but the one feature that I find lacking (in this and other similar apps, like http://omive.com) is the ability to "hide" movies I've already seen. Because otherwise I…
manuelflara on HNOne issue is that i am not able to actually login with Twitter or Google+. Facebook seems to be working Google http://movieo.me/auth/failure?message=csrf_detected&strategy=google…
stevoo on HN
Streaming service availability filters
From 2 comments
This is pretty sweet, but wish there was a way to filter to show movies available on netflix.
djrconcepts on HNThis is beautiful. Add in information/filtering for whether it's on Netflix/Amazon Prime Streaming etc... and i'd pay a small fee for this.
whalesalad on HN
Trailer buttons and torrent or streaming links
From 2 comments
Great interface. How about adding a small trailer button on each movie preview as well. Would save people time of clicking for a movie and then going for the trailer. Just my…
adi0x90 on HNVery useful. Can you add links to amazon/hulu/torrents?
AndrewKemendo on HN
Language filter
From 2 comments
Missing feature: Sort by language. This is especially important for massively multilingual countries like India. Choosing 'India' lists hundreds of movies, but I would like to…
shared4you on HNJust a tip, in case you find your way to adding it - while browsing through the India selection, I find that there are movies from different languages - I found Hindi, Malayalam…
kshatrea on HN
Trakt integration
From 1 comment
Could you integrate with trakt? That way I could filter out all the movies that I have seen to better find recommendations.
Technicolour on HN
Questions
Which data sources are used
From 3 comments
Just out of interest which data sources are you using?
alexbilbie on HNWe use both TMDB and OMDB api's
oldboyFX on HNWe pulled all data from TMDB and OMDB into our own database.
oldboyFX on HN
Whether the project will be open sourced
From 2 comments
Looks great so far! Are you planning to open source it? I'm sure, many people would be glad to contribute, including myself :)
darekkay on HNIt's possible. We didn't really expect this much traffic/good feedback. In the next week or two we'll be polishing the site and adding some much requested improvements. We need…
oldboyFX on HN
Alternatives named
Letterboxd
From 1 comment
Where does the data come from? TMDB is a great source. Letterboxd has a similar design and lots of curation features. Good job.
austinstorm on HN
omive.com
From 2 comments
Looks good, but the one feature that I find lacking (in this and other similar apps, like http://omive.com) is the ability to "hide" movies I've already seen. Because otherwise I…
manuelflara on HNIt's good, but I recently found http://omive.com/ and it works great for me. Simple and very neatly built.
lalwanivikas on HN
Vunify
From 1 comment
Potentially related- Vunify is a service for discovering and following streaming content across multiple providers. http://www.vunify.com/
leetrout on HN
Flicksery
From 1 comment
This is brilliant. Loved the entire experience. Well done. For Netflix I have built, www.flicksery.com to solve my own problem of searching for good movies. Unfortunately the API…
phenomenon on HN