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Show HN: Movie Recommendations for several people to watch together

by paulnelligan on 6/25/12, 5:30 PM with 21 comments

We've been working on a custom engineered collaborative filtering algorithm not only to recommend movies for one person but for several to watch together, at the same time.

We're still in closed beta but would love to get feedback before launching.

  • by lassecausen on 6/25/12, 6:32 PM

    We've been working on a custom engineered collaborative filtering algorithm not only to recommend movies for one person but for several to watch together, at the same time.

    The site is written in Java, using Tapestry 5 & jQuery. Persistence via MongoDB.

    We're still in closed beta but would love to get feedback before launching.

  • by treelovinhippie on 6/26/12, 6:42 AM

    Nice site, cool idea. Though I found that most of the movies just seemed to be the popular ones... and many that I'd already watched. I'm guessing it matches with your Facebook likes?
  • by T_D_K on 6/25/12, 6:37 PM

    Looks great so far! A question, though: why are the group sizes limited to 5 people? Is it an issue with the cross referencing being too strict to find good matches with more people? I would like to have a larger group size, 10 would be ideal, though even just 7 would be a big help.
  • by mercuryrising on 6/25/12, 5:51 PM

    Looks cool.

    Minor comment though, when I saw the cell phones, the first thing I thought of was button candy. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ooCR1rvj6h4/TSFPFXg1CFI/AAAAAAAAB_...

  • by Tashtego on 6/25/12, 6:00 PM

    Love the idea, but my first thought was "man, I have to rate everything I've watched/read/played AGAIN???" I really wish there was better interchange/exchange of this sort of data, because it's sad that my first impression of your app is so quickly soured by that.
  • by gaillard on 6/25/12, 6:59 PM

    watchlist recommendations were dead on! i might totally use this. one thought though: if i could, i'd share my list of ratings on facebook or elsewhere - and i'd totally want check out rating-lists by others. for all those who won't invite friends to a group (for now i won't), such a feature could be in my interest and provide a low threshold mechanism to spread the word about foundd at the same time.
  • by grailholder on 6/26/12, 9:21 PM

    I think this is great. It'd be nice if google account login was available though.
  • by manume on 6/25/12, 5:35 PM

    Great idea and great design!
  • by dmitrisleonov on 6/25/12, 6:46 PM

    LOVE foundd, and this feature is awesome
  • by ozzroach on 6/25/12, 5:58 PM

    dear sirs, I salute to you for that site!
  • by D4n1el on 6/25/12, 6:52 PM

    Perfect! Just what I was looking for.
  • by woi on 6/25/12, 6:30 PM

    Like this!
  • by cathi on 6/25/12, 6:11 PM

    best site ever!!!
  • by rydl on 6/25/12, 5:47 PM

    love it! <3