what do we watch

At Best a Work in Progress Oh hey, it's Nick.

Phase 1: Front-end Shareable Movie Lists (easy)

• Hidden Gems
• Must-Watch Movies
• Under-rated Horror Movies
• Most Anticipated Movies 2024
• Best Time-Travel Movies

Phase 2: Back-end Movies + Users + Lists (medium)

• Google login (probably others but this is enough to start)
• Database backend - users, movies, lists
• Grab movie info from omdbapi - update movies at most once daily, easy
• Could keep minimum or maximum data for each movie, evaluate how much value it has for sorting + recommending movies
• Users get "watched" and "want to watch" lists.
  • Boolean: watched, liked, disliked, want to watch
  • Integer: Watched Movie Rating, Unwatched Movie Interest Rating

Phase 3: Functionality Add Utility (medium-easy)

• Generate a list given two intput lists
  • Input: Chris' Want to Watch
  • Input: Nick's Want to Watch
  • Output: Shared Want to Watch
• Ability to weigh and sort lists
  • I'm looking for a sci-fi movie
  • Weighted for movies released after 1994
  • That both Nick and I have not seen
  • Weighted by IMDB rating
  • Weighted by number of ratings (big asterix next to movies with 10 or less ratings, bonus points to movies with 1000-10000 ratings for being less well known)

Phase 4: Additional IdeasOptional (difficult)

• Make recommendations for movies not on the list based on similar interests of other users, or some other metric.
  • Fav Actors, Directors, Studios (based on movies they like)
• Gamify Lists - gain points/rank for positive ratings
• User Movie Reviews/Discussion/
• "Similar To" relationships, "Sin City" is strongly similar to "Watchmen" and the "The Boys", some similarity to "Kill Bill"
• Community "Movie Clubs", similar to "Book Clubs", watch and discuss.

Phase 5: Beyond Movies

Examples:
• Dragon's Egg, 1980 Scifi book with under 9k ratings, 632 revies
• Munmun, surprisingly interesting, kinda bad but fun audiobook
• The Sandman, excellent Graphic Novel to Audiobook
• Noita 56.9k reviews, overwhelmingly positive

Pros

• Useful site/app with only a single user.
  • I get value from organizing my watch/want to watch list in an easy to share medium.
  • If I want to watch a movie with mom, or Brian, or a girlfriend, or a stranger, this would have value with only 2 users.
  • A quick movie profile could be created by showing a dozen movies and having the user swipe right or left based on interest.
    • Send link to "Chris' Movie List"
    • Show movie thumbnail or trailer + IMDB rating + Summary for each movie
    • User quickly swipes interest for each movie on list
    • Combine results with Chris' "interest rating"
    • Output list with shared interests that can be sorted by different metrics
• Easily create and share lists on social media (free advertising if the site provides enough utility)
• None of this seems technically difficult.
• Even just creating sharable movie lists could have greater than zero value, with very little effort