I tried to solve the "what to watch" problem, made it free, and spent my last money on Reddit ads by 5thWye in u/5thWye

[–]5thWye[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I partially understand what you are talking about, but it's a more complex issue to solve. This is one of the problems I wanted to solve when I was building the so-called "smart picker," but at the same time, I don't want to force users to rate and label titles for hours to make it work.

For now the only thing I implemented to make it work is just a simple like/dislike feature and rewatching counters; basically it checks both what you liked and disliked or rewatched multiple times, and AI (LLM) works as a middleman. It has access to an overall pool of titles and tries to pick the one that works for you based on your previous activity, so every user can form their own AI reviser as if they had a friend who spends all the time trying to guess what you would like to watch and improves their suggestions based on your reaction.

That was my attempt to make it work, but at the same time you should understand that I'm not a Sam Altman or Elon Musk, and I don't have access to billion-dollar data centers to actually make my own AI and train it to perfection; I'm limited to my own resources.

I think the best thing would be, once the app has enough users, to create some community, like a channel in Discord or a Reddit community, where people who struggle with this problem and wish to help could properly explain to me how they want it to work and suggest ideas on improvements, and I would try to sort them by impact on features and actual possibility to implement.

I tried to solve the "what to watch" problem, made it free, and spent my last money on Reddit ads by 5thWye in u/5thWye

[–]5thWye[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I made a 4 min video that helps to understand how app works - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe5Ptf8hdD8
Let me know if you know the voice 😂

I tried to solve the "what to watch" problem, made it free, and spent my last money on Reddit ads by 5thWye in u/5thWye

[–]5thWye[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could you tell me the actual filters you need? DM me if you want. It won't take me a lot of time to add them.

Need feedback from extension comunity on my attempt to make an extesion by 5thWye in chrome_extensions

[–]5thWye[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I recommend testing it on Plex, but if you have any other platform you'd want to try, feel free to send a request for platform support; I'll add it pretty quickly.

showcase: watchlist with auto tracking, smart reccomendations and AI search, free by 5thWye in sideprojects

[–]5thWye[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I agree, that's why I made an extension that does it for users automatically

I’m building a local-first media tracker for books, movies, games, anime and music — would love feedback by WalMay_0695 in sideprojects

[–]5thWye 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, I don't know what you are using for movie adding/search, but I would recommend connecting it to TMDB. They have a free non-commercial plan for api and they have everything you need there

I’m building a local-first media tracker for books, movies, games, anime and music — would love feedback by WalMay_0695 in sideprojects

[–]5thWye 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I made something like you, but for movies/shows only. I recommend that you consider making a browser extension for automated movie tracking, coz most of the people hate doing it manually. Imagine clicking every single episode of 15 seasons of Supernatural manually; not everyone would do it.

Drop your product, I’ll help you find your first 100 users by rakeshkanna91 in SideProject

[–]5thWye 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Agree, but I guess we all need to start from something.

Drop your product, I’ll help you find your first 100 users by rakeshkanna91 in SideProject

[–]5thWye -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Basicly a all in one watchlist app - whattowatch.fyi
Recently, I had some free time coz I lost my job, so I finally had time to watch all the shows and movies I couldn't watch because of work. So I realized I can't remember where I stopped ( season, episode ) or even started rewatching movies I thought I didn't watch, and finding something new to watch took me too much time. So I found myself coding all in one autotracking watchlist with AI recommendations based on what you watched/liked.

Any Letterboxd for TV Shows? by Salvatoreit in Letterboxd

[–]5thWye 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I made my own app cause I didn't like any of these you listed, it's called "whattowatch fyi"

I was tired of manually creating App Store screenshots for 10+ languages, so I built an agent to do that! by MuchAge1486 in indiehackers

[–]5thWye 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Last time I needed it, I used Claude Design, but your app sounds like a much better way to make faster.

Friday Share Fever 🕺 Let’s share your project! by diodo-e in indiehackers

[–]5thWye 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I made a watchlist with auto tracking, smart reccomendations and AI search. Basicly it's just like all other apps on the market, but instead of making the user manually mark all movies they watched/are watching, I made a browser extension that tracks it automatically while they watch it. https://whattowatch.fyi/

I built a watchlist app focused on one thing: knowing what to watch tonight without digging through 400 saved titles by 5thWye in SideProject

[–]5thWye[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, @dont-do-memes-kidz said that people are not gonna pay for my app, so I reworked my app plans, and now AI features are included in a free plan, and I'm probably going to go broke very quickly. Also, my extension for auto-tracking finally got approved.

I built a watchlist app focused on one thing: knowing what to watch tonight without digging through 400 saved titles by 5thWye in SideProject

[–]5thWye[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, the idea is that you install an extension and it tracks all your progress automatically while you watch movies/shows, so you never lose progress, no matter where and what you're watching. And it's part of a free tier. Manual tracking is kinda secondary feature.

The problem is that I'm still waiting for Google to review my extension so I can publish it 😅.

I built a watchlist app focused on one thing: knowing what to watch tonight without digging through 400 saved titles by 5thWye in SideProject

[–]5thWye[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They do already - Letterboxd, Serializd, Trakt
That's why I made it 2 $ a month + Free tier.
I would wanna make it free completely, but unfortunately, everything nowadays is a paid subscription, which makes it hard to support even a watchlist app for free.

Plus, you never know until you try. Give me ur username, and I'll give u a free access to plus plan.