Re:Show HN: I made a personal Movies page, tracking everythi...
by sankalpdomore on Friday May 20, 2022 @07:42AM
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I've watched 1000+ movies & shows. Just started to track them last month on my personal site.
I can always use IMDB or LetterBoxd but I want to de-risk loosing all my work if a 3rd party company tomorrow decides to shut down or gets hacked. With my own data, I always will have a backup and lifetime uptime guarantee.
Re:Show HN: I made a personal Movies page, tracking everythi...
by psnehanshu on Friday May 20, 2022 @08:32AM
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Movie data isn't that valuable information to protect for an individual. Instead you can try making a contacts syncing software, or email storage, or even WhatsApp media backup system.
Re:Show HN: I made a personal Movies page, tracking everythi...
by sankalpdomore on Friday May 20, 2022 @03:36PM
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It's not about privacy, but loosing my data from a 3rd party hack or attack.
I can always backup my own code (json file) locally vs. asking letterboxd or imdb to backup my data.
Re:Show HN: I made a personal Movies page, tracking everythi...
by psnehanshu on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @04:18PM
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Yes, but again, for most people, movie data is far less valuable than say contacts.
By the way I once knew an magically amazing website to mark what you watched and discover what to watch. It was Jinni.com. It was an absolutely mind-blowing experience to browse. It would present you a collage of posters, you would mark what did you watch and how did it feel and it would suggest you movies/shows similar in various aspects (atmosphere, mood, specific themes in the plot, genre and more subtle ways). It also had a social function so people could share and see what others watched I can hardly describe how much I loved it, it was a perfect recommendation engine, no where to be challenged by any else existing to the day. For me it's a tragedy it closed and only makes money by selling their data to adtech corporations apparently.