Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey
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HN · launched Jul 18, 2026 · 34 upvotes (top 20%) · 0 views
Niche: movie and tv tracking apps · 77 launches, 11 in the last 7 days ▲ +57% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 77 launches in movie and tv tracking apps →
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 : 86 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #17 of 87 (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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- TickYourList · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- İyi Koltuk · ph · 2026-11-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Sail to Ithaca, a playable Homer’s Odyssey with hidden Easter eggs · hn · 2026-07-31 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Seatmaxxing · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Live Claude Usage HUD for a $38 Thermalright Trofeo Vision LCD · hn · 2026-08-15 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.38
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- WREACKFEST-VR · github · 2026-10-24 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.37
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