We do that but sit next to each other and you know, talk
Also this app literally exists anyway, I’m pretty sure it even existed when this was posted.
Do you know what it’s called?
There’s a few I’m going to go with handshake that someone posted further down the one I remember was called something like movieflix
No idea why you’d be downvoted for that but thanks!
Edit… Either I’m finding the wrong apps or neither of those ones do the thing.
I searched movie tinder, there’s matched, movie match, movie tinder for Plex, etc. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.handshake.app
2.2 stars. Woof
I think a lot of us have come up with this amazing new idea only to realize that it already exists
I’m pretty sure it even existed when this was posted.
…earlier today? Yeah, I’m not really surprised to learn it wasn’t developed and published in less than a work day.
Lol it was originally posted in 2020
See, my wife and I will go back and forth, checking various streaming services and vetoing each other’s picks for the full duration of movie night.
Now when she asks what I want to watch, my first reply is always, “Literally anything except the Netflix menu.”
We discuss the options and often end up talking about something else. So even scrolling through options is nice together time. Unless the actual goal was to see a movie, then that method isn’t that great lol
I think there a talk app you can use to talk with your partner.
Do they have gamified aspects and perhaps a lootbox style system? “You had a 7 day streak in talking to your significant other. Here’s two relationship tokens”
If you say the right things, you get to loot your partners box.
Doesn’t sound very replayable tbh
Things can appear in the box from time to time
Jolly Ranchers?
Ugh maybe
Why talk when you both are already looking at your phones?
I really try to make my relationship such that I would never have to directly interact with my partner, but there’s still some work to be done 😔
I mean, why waste the limited time I have a day with my SO by scrolling together through an endless list of movies and shows. Both of us have the attention span of a beagle, so sporadically swiping through a list during the workday would actually be preferable.
For me it wouldn’t be about avoiding conflict, just a way to remember something that I would otherwise forget as soon as we started looking for something to watch.
What the actual fuck?
Where is my pitchfork?
We do that but it takes FOREVER and we have limited time because we have kids and we’re so tired. I’d love to have this app to use during the week in breaks from work for a movie after work.
I’ve actually thought of this as a new dating service. Too bad I’m lazy.
Get after it someone who needs an SO.
Awesome, more isolation.
Good Lord - even couples are no longer able to talk to each other. They need an app?
Oh to be young, back when the world was simple.
When you’ve got 2 kids that go to bed between half an hour and an hour before you and every other night you can use it for watching a movie or a tv show, how much of that time do you want to spend cruising 5 streaming platforms to pick a movie? That’s easily a half hour wasted.
Instead, as we alternate putting kids to bed, the awake parent could be screening movies and match from the previous day review. Meaning we could spend our time actually WATCHING said movie.
We can talk when the kids are awake, but we cannot flip through the Netflix catalog at the same time. Either kids are watching the TV or we don’t want them watching the TV, in either case you can’t use the TV.
Edit:
Go one step further and allow a spouse to preselect from movies and TV currently being watched they would watch for tonight and I will pay for a subscription!
Yes and a genre filter, please.
Somebody somewhere is about to make so much money. Shoulda learned how to program.
We used an app like this to pick a baby name
Then you add it to the pile of movies you don’t have time to watch together
Found the married person with kids
I’m lucky if I get an hour a day to myself outside of work.
I find i can get alone time if I just skip sleep!
this actually sounds like a really good idea to vibe code
I’m sorry you lost me at the coupling of vibe coding and human connection. I couldn’t quite see the join.
Vibe coding is useful for bashing out simple, stupid ideas that have been done millions of times before. APIs to do SOMETHING with a movie database has been done millions of times before. Tinderlike swiping interfaces have been done millions of times before.
There isn’t going to be much nuance to creating this software. so it’s something that can be fairly easy for an AI to churn out the code for, and get the functionality working and give to people.
Not sure where you got human connection or whatever from this.
Human connection is actually the basic premise of the original post. I’m just being salty because I resent having to constantly fix the shite that lazy cunts vibe code, but yes, it’s not an obvious join and I’d probably had a drink
Can it not just be for movies, but for food places as well?
We made a backup - a taqueria. If 5 options get axed we have tacos. No regrets!
I just say “lets go to that place you like” and see what they reply with.
“Okay!”
Now you’re fucked.
This is what you keep emergency diarrhoea in your back pocket for
“Can you book an Uber?”
Can you put it in the map, my phone is acting weird.
Haha, I had this ideayears ago of a dating app where you rate random stuff (food, furniture, hobbies, personality traits, actors, etc) and get paired up that way. I imagine it being like Okcupid before enshittification where you could make questions otger people answered and stuff.
Also it’d automatically add the movie to your radarr instance
and order popcorn and dim the lights
🏴☠️
thanks for introducing me to radarr
Make sure to also VPN
Wait until you find Sonarr and the rest of the *arrs
And Jellyfin to play it all with.
I think my life just became full
No that’s just your hard drive
ouch this hurts
It’s been a while since I’ve sailed the high seas. How difficult is it to get subtitle tracks these days? I’ve gotten used to having them on everything.
You will probably want to have a passing familiarity with Docker.
Most things have it and what doesn’t, OpenSubltitles, an open source subtitle resource, does. It’s just linked right into my Jellyfin. I haven’t had to manually find subtitles in years…
Most of the stuff I rip have the subtitles in the file (mkv ftw). But there’s also bazarr
+1 for Bazaarr
You can use bazarr to do it for you
Probably out of scope but would be such a cool feature for https://docs.seerr.dev/
Shit I didn’t know about jellyseer, I’m gonna test it out
on letterboxd you can filter a user’s watchlist for matches in your own or filter out stuff you’ve already seen. handy.
I just have a massive list of movies and shows I want to watch, and I run it by my wife. She usually just tells me to pick one. Then the burden is mine again.
Let me introduce you to
shuf | head 1. This is literally what picks the next movie for us. If either of us are unhappy, we just remove the movie from the list and try again.
Wait… You actually watch the movie? I thought it was just background noise for making out and fucking.
I am so fucking glad I did family movie nights wrong
I wonder what op does when they listen to music then.
The same as a movie, except you do it to the beat. 😌
Smack my bitch up by The Prodigy was found to be the best song for this. Do with this information as you will.
One person picks three (movies, restaurants, events, etc.) that they would be happy with.
The other person selects one out of the three.
Alternate.
We do more layer, so it’s called 5-3-1.
Person A picks five options.
Person B eliminates two of them.
Person A selects one of the three remaining.
We alternate who gets to pick the five.
The problem is the catalog is functionally infinite. How can you feel like you’re making a good decision if you don’t exhaust a category?
You don’t have to make a good decision. It’s 20-90 minutes of your life, not a fucking career.
The problem is the catalog is functionally infinite.
It narrows down significantly by region, for restaurants, and by time frame, for events.
Movies as a bit trickier, but you can ballpark that by genre and maybe “new releases” / “<streaming service>” / “criterion collection”
If you’ve got a big enough pool, you’ll get plenty of crossover. “You just matched with a person who wants to go to a Knicks game, watch a horror movie, and dine out at Sopo Korean Eats” is going to get plenty of hits in Manhattan.
I thought we are just matching with a spouse or sig other on what to watch next?
Ah, I thought it was a dating thing
We tried that. My wife said my hours of research into restaurants was “low effort” so now she picks three and I choose
You pick by aggregating multiple factors and weight them by probability.
She picks by vibe.
