Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey
Details
- External ID
- 48960551
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey
- Website domain
- imaxxing.io
- Launched
- July 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 34
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7992831541218638
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- space and geospatial visualization tools
- Vertical
- Travel & hospitality
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- seat availability alerts for imax screenings
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a targeted scraper that polls theater seat-map endpoints or booking APIs and triggers email, webhook, or push notifications when good seats open up.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (modern Odyssey adaptation), Lynch's Dune film, Villeneuve's Dune films, Lord of the Rings movies
Concerns raised: Movie deviates far from Homer's original vision and character motivations, Modern morality imposed instead of original moral arguments, Removed internal monologue and key scenes from source material, IMAX formatting forces expensive tickets ($25) and limits accessibility, Theater scheduling prioritizes higher-grossing films over consistent IMAX showtimes
Feature requests: Letterbox IMAX film for standard theater screens, Include internal monologue from source material, Restore banquet scene from original story
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 41 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #8 of 42 (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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- BookMySeat - book your seat · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- goldeneye-vr · github · 2026-09-21 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.37
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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