music emphasizing 'arthouse'

peepthis.app

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https://www.peepthis.app

Built with Vue and Django. The goal is to create a small community of individuals with an inclination towards less 'mainstream' and more 'arthouse' titles. You can rate titles, see how your compatible your taste is with other users, receive recommendations based on what compatible users like, and discuss titles via Reddit-style nested discussion pages (but memes and low-effort content are heavily discouraged). There are also a lot of other various common features like list creation and instant messaging.

I use my own database, host my images, etc. so I don't need to rely on any third party services. Many of the most popular media 'databases' (e.g. IMDB, Goodreads, IGDB, etc.) are owned by Amazon or some other media conglomerate, which I think is a big conflict of interest... New titles must be added to the database (with a lot of help from automated data scraping tools to reduce effort) so the library of titles is 'handpicked' by the community. There are definitely less titles than other sites, but a much higher chance that you'll stumble onto something unique.

I'm a hobbyist programmer and this is my pet project- I wanted to create a web app/PWA that I would want to use regularly.

Congrats on making and launching this. Both of those things are quite difficult.

As kind of an acid test, I searched for "Repo Man" (in Films). It doesn't seem to be included in your database. 21 other films were displayed instead, none of which seemed particularly relevant.

This isn't a complaint. This aligns with my interests, and I hope you succeed. But the back end needs more work.

Thank you and noted! I'll be tweaking the search- you're right that it's currently too liberal in what is matched.

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