Ask HN: Stuff you want but doesn't exist?

Re:Ask HN: Stuff you want but doesn't exist? by dlwiest on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @03:47PM (#8110496)

I actually started developing this but shelved it because I couldn't figure out how to pitch it.

"So what's this app you're building do?" "Well... have you ever had that problem where you know you recognize an actor from another movie, but you don't know his name, and you don't feel like cross checking the movies' IMDB pages?" "No." "Oh. Okay."

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Re:Ask HN: Stuff you want but doesn't exist? by knd775 on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @05:53PM (#8111226)

You could just try to pitch it as a movie finder. It could be setup like WebMD, where you select a few symptoms and it determines what a possible diagnosis may be. You could select a few actors, the genre and maybe the time period. I actually really like this idea now ;)

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Re:Ask HN: Stuff you want but doesn't exist? by dlwiest on Thursday July 31, 2014 @01:34PM (#8115619)

True. I may pick it up again. I'll just need to figure out how to make it robust as I'd want without it becoming too clunky.

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Re:Ask HN: Stuff you want but doesn't exist? by miyou on Thursday July 31, 2014 @04:02PM (#8116634)

Just found this: www.imdb.com/search/common Does pretty much exactly that

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