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Show HN: Movieagent.io – An agent for movie recommendations (with couple mode)
Most Friday nights and weekends, my wife and I would spend 30+ minutes scrolling Netflix, vetoing each other's movie suggestions. The intersection of our tastes is pretty small. She's into rom coms and the occasional thriller, and couldn't care less about ratings. I gravitate toward critically acclaimed stuff and 3h+ sagas. Eventually, we would settle on something neither of us really wanted, or a comfort TV show.
So, I built movieagent.io to help us. It's an agent that finds what you're in the mood for tonight. The agent plays the role of an arbiter, and does its best to try and bridge the gap between users. The whole process takes about 2-3 minutes, depending on the level of disagreement (and Anthropic's API load).
The agent asks a few quick questions, then runs "duels", showing you two movies and asking which movie resonates more. Your choices reveal which direction the agent should probe into more.
Finally, the user(s) get 4-5 movies at the end with a personalized recommendation note as to why this particular movie is a good choice for tonight.
It still hit or miss sometimes, but it did help us to a couple of great movie nights.
Love the idea, but entering my Letterboxd username just sort of hangs, and I can’t tell if it’s actually doing anything.
Can you try again? I tried it, and it should work now. It hanged due to a bug in my Letterboxd parsing code.
I'm having some issues accessing Letterboxd at the moment. Working on a fix now.
I liked the idea. However, I found the journey too slow. I suppose the agent crawls and scrapes the list of movies from scratch every time for each "journey". It might be better to pre-store or cache some sort of general list and work only on the personalisation in real-time.
A few suggestions: - The end-to-end journey should be completed under 30 seconds. - "Almost There" section shows a list of movie posters that can be removed by the user however there is no information about the movies. I don't know if I would want to remove any or not. - Show IMDB ratings - When removing suggestions, request a reason so that you have better personalisation in the future. - For the final suggested movies, show direct links to the popular streaming platforms to watch them. Add a sharing option through whatsapp etc.
Good luck.
Thank you for the feedback, I agree that the journey is a bit too slow at the moment.