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Hey,

I used to spend hours researching for a movie to watch, looking at reviews on IDMd, genres, actors, trailers...

Ironically, I feel like the abundance of movies is making it harder to pick one.

I've noticed I tend to watch movies based on how feel so I tried to mimic this behavior with Mood2Movie.

1/ It maps your feeling to movie genres you might be interested in. I.e. if you're sleepy you might want to watch an action movie or a comedy

2/ It only fetches great movies with a rating > 6.7 on IMDb

If you're also picky about which movie to watch, give Mood2Movie and try, and hopefully, it'll work for you too.

Enjoy the show!

Question: how does the app decide which movie corresponds to a certain mood?
I think you've taken your personal preferences and tried to apply them to everyone else.

if you're sleepy you might want to watch an action movie or a comedy

If I'm sleepy, I want to watch a calming movie, or something thoughtful because I'm going to sleep soon. Watching an action movie when I'm sleepy might be good for you, or maybe a long-haul trucker. But not for everyone.

This is where every recommendation engine from Netflix to Facebook to Apple Music falls down. People are messy. And there's too many of them to generalize.

It only fetches great movies with a rating > 6.7 on IMDb

Using online ratings services is a bad idea. They've become polluted. Movies that are enormously important or entertaining or just plain good are losing more and more ratings points because they're being re-rated by non-experts and people who don't understand the context or history. The movies haven't changed. The people rating then have. So what you end up with is the lowest common denominator films getting the highest ratings.

*Using online ratings services is a bad idea.*

While some viewers might change their ratings, I believe the crowd will surface the truth at the end

It hasn't happened yet. And this has been going on for years.

That's why some web sites show separate ratings based on who's rating them. They tally the ratings of professional film critics separately from those of the hoi polloi.

Ironically, I feel like the abundance of movies is making it harder to pick one.

This sounds like the difference between Optimizing and Satisficing personality traits.

An optimizer wants to find the best choice. The more choices, the harder that is.

The Satisficer just wants to find one that's good enough. Having more choices generally makes that easier, if it comes with a directory or some way to search.

I quite like it, I am not sure if I’m the popular opinion but I feel like you should remove the back button/history update for every movie. There is no reason it needs to add a new history entry for every carousel change.
I think it would actually be better not to have the carousel at all, but paginated with like, 5-10 per page?
Couple of thoughts:

1. I'm not really sure what making this so interactive accomplishes. The result seems akin to a listicle: "X Great Movies to Watch When You're Feeling Y", except with a lot more clicks required and, importantly, no curation. I think I would prefer to see a static list of recommendations with a "random" button and a cool blog post linked about how the recommendations were generated. Furthermore, it seems fairly safe to say (?) that the site isn't dynamically generating recommendations because the list exhausts rather quickly, after 10 or so. Just make a list!

2. The lack of curation leads to a lot of strangeness in the recommendations. For example, my first choice was feeling "weird". I got a bunch of blockbuster action films: Justice League, Avengers: Endgame, Thor: Ragnarok, Interstellar, Black Panther, Captain Marvel.

I like the idea of the site but it doesn't match what I want when I'm in a particular mood. If I'm sleepy, I'm more likely to want to watch something chill. If I'm sad, I'm more likely to want to watch something sad. But there are also situations where I want the opposite, so it's not like there's a hard rule. I feel like the site would be better asking what mood they want to be in, instead of trying to guess it based on their current mood.
> It only fetches great movies with a rating > 6.7 on IMDb

We might end up missing some good movies. Maybe adding a choice would be better?

Surprisingly decent, for what it is.

It would be great to have something to give feedback on whether it actually picked a movie that lines up with the mood I've picked.

This should be a legitimate category. I just want something with an easy plot to watch during a 'netflix and chill' date!
I honestly clicked it thinking it would have some of those 70s/80s comedy like Lampoon or Fast Times
Spoiler, the above page doesn't exist, but it happens to be the top requested page at the time of writing:

https://plausible.io/mood2movie.com

It makes sense. It's the only one that makes you wonder what kind of commercial mainstream films it will recommend? All others clicks will be distributed randomly among all the other buttons.
But, based on the fact that the author offers 'happy' movies if you're feeling sad, he would probably provide some movies that would try to stop you from being horny. :) Now, the question is - what kind of movies can make you stop being horny? :)
I think it would be great if you could make a distinction, whether I want to get out of a mood, or intensify this mood.

E.g., if I'm feeling sad, I'd like to get distracted to get out of this mood. Or I want to amplify this mood, so I might need another movie.

I wish I could make this distinction for myself
“My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression,” Iran said.

“What? Why did you schedule that?” It defeated the whole purpose of the mood organ. “I didn’t even know you could set it for that,” he said gloomily.

-- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K. Dick

It's interesting to see how different people deal with different feelings. Personally, when I'm feeling sad, I want to stay with the feeling -- not wallow in it, but let it "flow", so it eventually gets out of my system. Movies can be quite cathartic that way.
Recommends mortal combat for thoughtful?

??

It recommended it for me for being SLEEPY.
it recommend it for weird, i think them can a like this movie
Combat, sacrilege. Its MK, Mortal Kombat.
This is very interesting. I'm trying more to become a person like that. It's way healthier to accept emotions than try to always run away from them
It depends on the circumstance, which I believe was the GP's point. Sometimes I do want to explore the sadness for a bit, but other times I want to be cheered up.
I am a huge movie fan. And always lost in thoughts. So I guess I will go through the whole "reflective" list and see if there is a movie I don't know yet.

Lists of "popular movies" on Netflix etc never click with me. Most stuff out there is too kitchy for me.

One tool that works for me is Gnovies, which finds a mix of 3 movies you put in:

https://www.gnovies.com

Just went through the GNOD services, it's incredible. Have you used the movie map? https://www.movie-map.com/
Oh yes, I use the map too sometimes.

The reason I mostly use Gnovies is that I often watch together with my girlfriend. So we each put one movie into Gnovies "enter 3 movies you like" form and after some experimentation we usually find a new one we both enjoy.

As always, the real gold is always in comments section. GNOD is exactly what I was looking for.

I wonder why I never stumbled upon it…

This didn't work for me at all. Of 8 or so recommendations it included "Red" "Blue" and "White". Huh? It's also pretty useless without including a year or link to an imbd page.
clicking for each title recommendation is a bit tedious maybe have more suggestions per page?
It gave me "Parasite" as a first suggestion for "Humorous".

The suggestion did make me laugh, so I guess the task failed successfully?

Parasite is usually described as a black comedy thriller. It’s humorous, among other things.
Nice, I like it and can see myself using it. It would be even better if there was always a link to IMDB.
Reflecting on past experiences, does anybody else find that first checking IMDB for a score has ultimately been a flop of a habit? Also, IMDB, it’s not what it used to be am I right?
Data are being fetched from IMDb. What's missing on the app that you'd like to see on IMDb?
I think the app and the data it contains is good as it is. I would just occasionally like to check data from IMDb such as actors, directors, similar movies and all the stuff one can find on IMDb. A mere link to IMDb could provide more info to those who want it, without polluting your already great site with more data.
I chose sleepy mood and got recommended Tenet. Not the easiest movie to follow when you’re half asleep.
You are asking me "how are you feeling now" and suggesting movies based on it. If I am feeling melancholy you are suggesting more sad movies to me ?

Don't you mean, movie2mood.com ? Ask, "how do you want to feel" and gimme movies which makes me feel so. ?

Simple lovely website and beautiful execution. Good-luck on the launch!

I was a bit alarmed that, when I said I was feeling gloomy, it recommended Midsommar! Don’t really think that’s going to help lift my spirits…. Perhaps the UI is confusing me and I’ve missed something.
I chose "idyllic", expecting titles like Kiki's Delivery Service, but all the recommendations were either fighting or sports-related movies (Raging Bull, Southpaw, Rocky, etc). Sometimes there's also an issue where the same page loads inside the video frame.

Good idea, just needs a little more polish.

Great idea. Anything that helps winnow down to a decidable list of movies is a good thing.

Just a quick note, something's wrong with the movie 'Retfærdighedens ryttere', gets a 404 and doesn't load the youtube preview.

Neat! I just shared with my girlfriend – and I expect we'll use it :)

Also, a very, ~very~ minor gripe but the little flashing, color-changing heart keeps catching my eye and is a little distracting. One man's opinion!

The app seems neat, I do wonder how did you get the IMDB ratings? Did you hard code it or did you find an api which gets their rating?
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Author tweeted[1] their open traffic, interesting if you've ever wondered what a "Show HN" looks like from the other side https://plausible.io/mood2movie.com

[1] https://twitter.com/marc_louvion/status/1464606400638640143

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Love that the top page after homepage is /moveis/horny :D Felix Dennis was so right!

Anyway, love everything about this whole open startups(1) thing. Really amazing to see what happens behind the scenes!

(1) https://baremetrics.com/open-startups

How does your site generate movies? Does it pick random ones from IMDb? If so, more movies would probably come up, even the ones less known. Or did you (developer) make a conscious selection? If so, what is your selection based on?
As someone who is working on a YT-driven playlist for music myself, I absolutely -HATE- how YT handles deleted and unpublished videos. They strip all information from the player and it can break applications that rely on them.

Applications that leverage YouTube go far in helping Google to maintain it's market dominance, they should help reliant apps to operate smoothly because it greatly supports the company, but if the service is faulty or unreliable over a long period of time without any fixes available, it's probably just a willful handicap to drive people back to YT as a platform rather than truly enabling content sharing.

I understand that there are often valid reasons behind removing videos from display, but YT should at least allow for the title to remain, or a link back to the poster's channel, after a video is no longer available so it doesn't just display a "Video Not Available".

If someone publishes a video, but then needs to edit out parts, the video still exists, but all prior links to it are suddenly broken. That makes using YT for embedded video difficult even though they're the #1 video content platform.

App developers can't simply stand up a "bootleg" streaming service of their own with the level of diverse content that YT has, therefore YT has a bigger responsibility to fix the stability of the content they provide, possibly by allowing creators to replace videos instead of having to completely re-upload them with a new content ID. We're really not able to properly innovate unless we're truly solving traditional and not letting long-standing problems persist.

I have similar feelings for an app that I am developing. But YT is like a shark which don't even cares about the small fishes.
I like that this seems to trend towards newer movies, a lot of other recommendation platforms seem to ignore year of release.
Would it work the other way round too? I feel like watching John Wick again, tell me how I feel…
Heh I clicked through a few recommended titles and then the app reported "Feeling undefined" :D
"Parasite" for feeling lonely? Ummm...

The entire set of recommendations for that is rather eyebrow-raising.

Please add a hungover category
What movie genres would you recommend in there?
I was kind of being silly but I do think there's a certain type of film that is particularly enjoyable when hungover. Usually a fairly basic action film that's not too taxing on the brain with plenty of visual stimulus!