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You can think our app as a movie discovery app, there is a shared deck between all users. But you still have a watchlist, of course.
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caksoy on Thursday November 12, 2026 @07:52AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/handpicked-movies-by-people/id6825099571
My partner and I have been regularly watching movies for several years now. It became more than a hobby over time. However, we usually get frustrated when we cannot decide what to watch. Movie ratings are good, but they're not enough to tell us if that fits our taste and mood. Movie forums are great, but it's also very dense, and finding something could turn into a weekend project. What we...
Yeah, that’s why I was actually curious about how frequently that happens, and its intensity. In either case, not a good framing.
My husband and I are constantly struggling to find what to watch at night. I know that there are a plethora of recommendation systems, but I feel like they just don't work. We then turn our attention to curators, who are great, but they also typically have a preference, and you need to follow a bunch of them.
We built this small app where people just enter one-line text on why you should watch that movie. Since it's only a deck of cards of movies, it's really easy to go through them and find what you like. About 700 cards at the moment.
Give it a try: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/handpicked-movies-by-people/id...
I don't know the context, but it would be nice if you could link those comments, arguments (i.e., claims matching evidence).
I think there are people on both sides, wishing they succeed or fail, which is honestly true for almost any company/person.
I definitely don't touch any AI tools while I'm designing the high-level solution for the problem. If you ask it to propose a solution to you, you quickly go down the rabbit hole, which can sometimes lose you days. This is especially the case if your setting is not fully verifiable but you measure your success with a metric.
Once the design is complete, I think the rest is less important. At least that's how I feel.
The washed-up effect looks good, but I didn't quite get the novelty of the medium. I mean, there are websites where you see an animation, you scroll down, and you see another one. But looks good as a story book.
Landing page is beautiful, but I don't understand what the work is about. There could be at least some sort of an about page maybe, shown somewhere in the bottom if you don't want to emphasize it.
I don't know how feasible this would be, but, you could create a mock drawing of the setting since you're already describing it.