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by WayneBro 3404 days ago
Thanks for making this. Some suggestions:

- How about linking back to the IMDB page for each movie?

- It would be great if you displayed various ratings from IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes and elsewhere kind of like JustWatch.com does (but with links to those ratings pages).

- Actually, it would be really cool if you linked to a JustWatch search too so the user can easily see if the movie is streaming anywhere that they subscribe to.

Another crazy thought - a merger with JustWatch would be awesome too (but I really wish JustWatch would also link back to IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, etc).

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Yeah I was actually thinking of doing this, just been super busy trying to archive everything from IMDB before the boards shut down.

Do you know the founders at JustWatch?

Hey Jim, one of the JustWatch founders here - we'd love to have linkouts as well. Unfortunately, interests with IMDB aren't super aligned at the moment and they're in business much, much longer than we are. Let's say they keep a pretty close guard on their data, as they've spent the last dozen years collecting it.

But rest assured we're working heavily behind the scenes to make our site & UX better and better every day with free and open movie data sources - but always trying to stay safe on the legal side.