Instant Movie/TV Search
Consumer and social
movie and tv discovery
SHOW HN2010
31points
9comments
#57of 370 in 2010
Top 16%of 2010 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
3 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 0 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score +0.30.
Design: 1 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Fast, clean design
From 3 comments
I completely love this. Its fast and I love the iTunes/Amazon links when available. I would absolutely love to see Netflix integration. Be able to watch a movie directly from…
geuis on HNConsider having the searchbar revealed even when you are on a show/movie page. Btw, great design. I love how clean it is.
jamesteow on HNI feel instantly at home on this. Just what I've been looking for too, and has huge scaling potential, features wise. One thing, not sure about the rating system, it's not…
marckremers on HN
Good potential for scaling and features
From 2 comments
I feel instantly at home on this. Just what I've been looking for too, and has huge scaling potential, features wise. One thing, not sure about the rating system, it's not…
marckremers on HNThis is definitely something with a lot of potential. I can see this being useful for the Big Screen via Google Tv, Boxee, etc. Besides the netflix integration that's obviously…
samratjp on HN
Objections
Rating system not granular enough
From 1 comment
I feel instantly at home on this. Just what I've been looking for too, and has huge scaling potential, features wise. One thing, not sure about the rating system, it's not…
marckremers on HN
Requests
Netflix integration
From 2 comments
This is definitely something with a lot of potential. I can see this being useful for the Big Screen via Google Tv, Boxee, etc. Besides the netflix integration that's obviously…
samratjp on HNI completely love this. Its fast and I love the iTunes/Amazon links when available. I would absolutely love to see Netflix integration. Be able to watch a movie directly from…
geuis on HN
Movie trailers
From 1 comment
This is definitely something with a lot of potential. I can see this being useful for the Big Screen via Google Tv, Boxee, etc. Besides the netflix integration that's obviously…
samratjp on HN
Personalized recommendations
From 1 comment
I like how it lets you slice the results. It'd be nice to integrate the review feed alongside the browsing interface. I feel like it should be recommending things to me more as I…
georgehuo on HN
Embeddable film collection
From 1 comment
I feel instantly at home on this. Just what I've been looking for too, and has huge scaling potential, features wise. One thing, not sure about the rating system, it's not…
marckremers on HN
Questions
How the data was obtained
From 1 comment
Awesome! How did you obtain the data, btw?
xtacy on HN
Technical implementation
From 1 comment
Really well done. Would you care to share about the tech behind the implementation. Adding search suggestions for movie names/actors will give a more 'instant' feel. Also,…
ramanujam on HN
Alternatives named
IMDb
From 1 comment
We are making a visual search engine for movies and TV. Users can quickly navigate, sort, and filter titles along intuitive dimensions like rating, release date, genre, actors,…
huangm on HN