Criterion Closet as a website
pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf
Details
- External ID
- 48609054
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Criterion Closet as a website
- Website domain
- vercel.app
- Launched
- June 20, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 194
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9549180327868853
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- media discovery and streaming tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Marketplace
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- searchable criterion collection film database
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is an interactive front-end catalog pulling metadata and cover images from public sources (like Wikidata and the Criterion shop) with 2D/3D layout styling.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: GOG (for movies instead of games), Letterboxd (as list visualizer)
Concerns raised: Text orientation uncomfortable to read (bottom-to-top vs top-to-bottom), Locale-dependent text direction issues with mixed language shelves, Extra UI causing confusion
Feature requests: Indicate which films are in '1001 Movies to See Before You Die' list, Add AFI Top 100 list indicators, Fix spine text to flow top-to-bottom like real shelves
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 76 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #6 of 77 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 231 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Outpaint.com - Expand any video to fit any screen · yc · 2026-06-09 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Bury.lol · hn · 2026-08-26 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.37
Other launches for this product
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a marketplace tool for Horizontal yet.