Movieagent.io
An agent for movie recommendations (with couple mode)
Details
- External ID
- 46683070
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Movieagent.io
- Website domain
- movieagent.io
- Launched
- Jan. 19, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 25
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6851119894598156
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Most Friday nights and weekends, my wife and I would spend 30+ minutes scrolling Netflix, vetoing each other's movie suggestions. The intersection of our tastes is pretty small. She's into rom coms and the occasional thriller, and couldn't care less about ratings. I gravitate toward critically acclaimed stuff and 3h+ sagas. Eventually, we would settle on something neither of us really wanted, or a comfort TV show.So, I built movieagent.io to help us. It's an agent that finds what you're in the mood for tonight. The agent plays the role of an arbiter, and does its best to try and bridge the gap between users. The whole process takes about 2-3 minutes, depending on the level of disagreement (and Anthropic's API load).The agent asks a few quick questions, then runs "duels", showing you two movies and asking which movie resonates more. Your choices reveal which direction the agent should probe into more.Finally, the user(s) get 4-5 movies at the end with a personalized recommendation note as to why this particular movie is a good choice for tonight.It still hit or miss sometimes, but it did help us to a couple of great movie nights.
Enrichment
- Theme
- media discovery and streaming tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- movie recommendation agent for couples
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a web app combining user preference inputs with LLM prompting and existing movie metadata APIs like TMDB to generate recommendations.
Discussion
7 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Trakt
Concerns raised: Journey/process too slow, Letterboxd parsing hangs/doesn't work, No movie information in suggestions list, Unclear loading/progress feedback
Feature requests: Complete end-to-end journey under 30 seconds, Show IMDB ratings, Direct links to streaming platforms, Sharing options (WhatsApp, etc), Ask reason when removing suggestions for better personalization
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 85 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #26 of 86 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 78 days after the earliest competitor.
- Tonight's Movie Pick · ph · 2026-09-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- FilmLink · hn · 2026-02-25 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Film Dilemma · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- What Did I Watch? · hn · 2026-02-20 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- IMDB-Recommender-System · github · 2026-09-22 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- AgentDiscuss · hn · 2026-03-16 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Foyer Picks · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Craigslist for agent skills, curated by a human · hn · 2026-09-17 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.39
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.