alt.hn

1/19/2026 at 7:07:01 PM

Show HN: Movieagent.io – An agent for movie recommendations (with couple mode)

https://movieagent.io

by roknovosel

1/20/2026 at 2:52:55 AM

Love the idea, but entering my Letterboxd username just sort of hangs, and I can’t tell if it’s actually doing anything.

by turbostyler

1/20/2026 at 7:26:40 AM

Can you try again? I tried it, and it should work now. It hanged due to a bug in my Letterboxd parsing code.

by roknovosel

1/20/2026 at 5:39:42 AM

I'm having some issues accessing Letterboxd at the moment. Working on a fix now.

by roknovosel

1/22/2026 at 6:46:38 PM

Noooooo.

Been working on the same thing, for exactly the same reasons (ohh, another evening scrolling various UIs with my significant other).

Congrats!

by spenjovewkwhalo

1/20/2026 at 11:52:21 AM

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.

by ssoydan

1/20/2026 at 12:55:14 PM

Thank you for the feedback, I agree that the journey is a bit too slow at the moment.

by roknovosel