[zacksiri]

Well with JustWatch and other service aggregators you cannot search for movies by themes / use natural language. For example:

- "Zombie or post apocalyptic movies released in the last 5 years"

- "Find me top 10 movies on [insert streaming provider]"

- "Can you find me top 10 movies released in the last 5 years I haven't seen"

- "Movies that will make me feel like I'm trapped in space"

- "Movies that put smart people under pressure"

You simply cannot do this with the streaming service aggregators or JustWatch.

[vunderba]

> You simply cannot do this with the streaming service aggregators or JustWatch.

While that might be true, you can also just type "Movies that show smart people under pressure" [1] or similar queries directly into Google, and Gemini AI overview will give you a list of movies that match said criteria.

I assume you’re just passing the request on to an LLM. So unless the LLM is running on prem (like a tiny llama model), you’re probably sending it to OpenRouter or some other AI provider at cost which might explain the In-App purchases.

In all candor, I think it’s going to be an incredibly hard sell to convince people to pay for a recommendation app.

[1] - https://share.google/aimode/GiCcCHX5MpgN5o5V2

[zacksiri]

It's a lot more than an LLM, it's backed by database + LLM. Gemini / ChatGPT on it's own believe it or not has hallucinated movies and imdb links.

While google can show you results it cannot personalize things for you. With this app you can mark movies as seen and you can ask for "things i haven't seen"

or ask it to "pick a movie for me" from a search result, you can tell it which region / streaming service you have and search within things you can actually watch.

You can't do any of that with google.

There are tons of queries i've tried where google will simply not be able to give me good results.

The goal is to have a TvOS app where you can just search across all your streaming options and with a single click open / stream any movies you find. Instead of having to search 10 different streaming apps to something you want to watch.

In the example you provided I could not see any streaming options for any of the movies or figure out if it's available in my region. I would have to do multiple other search to figure out where I can watch them. I also cannot see ratings etc...