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SHOW HN2013
114points
89comments
#197of 1,739 in 2013
Top 12%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
7 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 11 critical, out of 31 comments about the project. Thread score -0.16.
Idea: 3 for, 4 againstExecution: 1 for, 6 againstPricing: 1 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Filters out well-known movies to surface less-seen ones
From 2 comments
I think that actually makes for a better list in this case, filters out all the things everyone has seen and leaves the ones that people might have missed (I'm certainly going to…
new299 on HNBut will it really be missed? Who needs a list of the most common movies, we already know of them. I also know most of the movies on this middle tier list, but there are still a…
Samuel_Michon on HN
Clean design
From 1 comment
Hey raimonds, great work. Nice clean use of bootstrap, too.
cmstoken on HN
Objections
Misses movies mentioned by title only, like Star Wars and Pulp Fiction
From 3 comments
Hmm, this doesn't seem very accurate... Tron has 360 mentions: https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=tron&start=0 Some of them are split between "Tron" and "Tron: Legacy"…
astar on HNAh, that explains it. I couldn't believe Star Wars wasn't on the list. But nobody needs to link to Star Wars. It seems this only works for the middle tier of movie mentions.…
rquantz on HNDoes the HN community not talk about Pulp Fiction? This app must be buggy.
gcv on HN
Affiliate links make it feel like a money grab
From 1 comment
HN is not a movie community so it seems rather pointless anyways (cue "HN is always negative comments"). Seems like a cheap way to grab amazon affiliate money and I find that…
aw3c2 on HN
Requests
Add open source tools, OSes and hardware
From 1 comment
You should add open source software tools, os's, or like someone said hardware (NAS, routers, servers, chips, etc.) that are mentioned too. On top of all these movies that are…
jjsz on HN
Add Netflix availability
From 1 comment
Hey OP: I'd like to know if these are also streaming on Netflix :)
thinker on HN
Add an anime category
From 1 comment
I'd be interested to see an anime category (it's pretty much all I watch nowadays :/)
lmm on HN
Questions
How was the list compiled?
From 1 comment
how was this list compiled? by scanning for mentions of words like "primer", "surrogate", and "brazil"? or just by looking for links to movie pages on IMDB or amazon? because i…
notatoad on HN