I'm not looking at this very deeply (on phone), but I think this does not make a good landing page. My impression of the copy is "sync what queues?" I have a Netflix queue; I don't want to have another one that needs to be synced with it. It sounds like it's creating a problem I don't have. There's nothing that explains the benefits of GoodFilms to people who aren't already users (like the front page does). Netflix already shows me "new" and "popular" films, which is not very useful anyway.
I suggest that if a user is not logged in, show something that focuses on what makes GoodFilms useful and that you can use your NetFlix queue on it instead of having to make another one. You can just say that you can browse on-Netflix films specifically; taking up a bunch or screen real estate with what amounts to an example of that does not explain it any better.
I agree. The landing page leaves much to be desired.
I've read over it a few times and I still have no idea what your service does or why I would want to use it.
Please consider revising your copy to focus on the benefits you're providing to me. What problems are you solving for me? Why is using GoodFilms going to make my life easier or better?
Good luck to you. Congrats on launching and I hope you do well with this.
Ditto. I left feedback on the site saying the same. I think there's potential here, but whether this service does what I wish it would is entirely unclear.
Also, have someone comb through the site for grammer - I got a sign-in prompt at one point that asked 'Already got an account?' This should be present-tense, as in 'Already have an account?' rather than past tense (e.g. I got an account yesterday).
One thing I would love to have is the ability to "hide" movies.
Often when I'm looking for movies to watch, I'll go through the process of looking it up on RT, if what I see there makes the decision that it's some direct to DVD crap, then I want to hide it forever.
In Netflix I've had to resort to giving movies 1 star ratings, but I'd love it if a site would just allow me to HIDE things, because sometimes I also just want to hide a good movie that I don't want to rewatch.
Very nice, though a couple of things immediately jump out:
First, no https. I think it's something you owe your less technical users.
Second - no non-social way to sign up. Personally, I find it annoying when I can't use simple email/username+password login. I don't really want to give up my entire social graph+data just to try something out. I realize this might be necessary for your business model, but you can offer me the option to add my social data later on, and I will if I like your service.
I love this site, I use it all the time. My feature request would be for the site to recommend films for me to watch next. Sure you can see what friends are rating, but I don't have any (friend me? http://goodfil.ms/user/4221 ). And sure you can use the "find films" feature http://goodfil.ms/explore However, both of these lack a "based on your ratings we think your going to love Memento" or a "sure lots of people loved the Avengers, but your not going to like it"
Nevertheless, I will continue to use this site as a way to catalog all of the films I see and how much I liked them, and IMO there is no better service out there for this purpose.
A question, what does the "watch again" rating matter for? I can't watch films multiple times, if I've seen it once I will never enjoy watching it again, but I'm concerned if I mark 0 on "rewatchability" that will affect the display of similar films?
Also, I've signed in and synced my Netflix account and it's still listing American Netflix films under "Recent Releases on Netflix". Might be worth excluding films that aren't available in my area (UK)
Really? None of them? There are many films I wouldn't watch again, but there are also some that I watch over and over. Just watched Amelie for the 10th time!
It really depends on what makes the movie great.. If it's the surprising storyline, rewatchability is low, but that doesn't make it a worse movie.
"if I've seen it once I will never enjoy watching it again"
I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but with Goodfilms, how many people who are rating a movie's rewatchablity have actually rewatched the movie they're rating?
One thing that bothers me about most movie recommendation apps is that there is no way to filter movies by their rating. As far as I know, even IMDB doesn't have this feature.
I like watching movies with my family and its hard to find good pg or pg-13 movies to watch. The family section on most sites is filled with animated movies so if you are looking for a non-animated family movie you're out of luck.
I really hope someone out there is working on an app that gets you the best movies to watch that are safe to watch with young kids and family.
I always find it difficult to come up with star ratings because I don't remember what ratings I've given to other things. I'd rather have a "rank in order of preference", or pairwise rank ("Did you like this more or less than..."). You can convert ranks into scores by looking at their position along a (probably Gaussian) probability distribution. Instead of having 1 to 4 stars you have -2 to 2 sigma.
I don't currently subscribe to Netflix but it seemed pretty user friendly before.
Amazon on the other hand is a totally different animal. I find Amazon's search for Prime (free) movies incredibly challenging. This kind of tool would add far more value to their system and is probably the only way I would browse if it were available.
I'm not surprised, but yet, i'm somewhat disapointed that it doesn't take into account your country to filter netflix releases, it looks like a cool site but it's not as useful to people on other countries.
This is really great, but I think people would benefit from linking their Netflix accounts earlier in the process. I didn't realize what I needed to do for a while.
Why do I have to log in with a Facebook or twitter account when this is for Netflix? is there no way to just have a goodfilms account and then sync my Netflix?
[+] [-] decklin|13 years ago|reply
I suggest that if a user is not logged in, show something that focuses on what makes GoodFilms useful and that you can use your NetFlix queue on it instead of having to make another one. You can just say that you can browse on-Netflix films specifically; taking up a bunch or screen real estate with what amounts to an example of that does not explain it any better.
[+] [-] thinkzig|13 years ago|reply
I've read over it a few times and I still have no idea what your service does or why I would want to use it.
Please consider revising your copy to focus on the benefits you're providing to me. What problems are you solving for me? Why is using GoodFilms going to make my life easier or better?
Good luck to you. Congrats on launching and I hope you do well with this.
Cheers.
[+] [-] jrwoodruff|13 years ago|reply
Also, have someone comb through the site for grammer - I got a sign-in prompt at one point that asked 'Already got an account?' This should be present-tense, as in 'Already have an account?' rather than past tense (e.g. I got an account yesterday).
[+] [-] incision|13 years ago|reply
Pass.
I wonder what the overlap between Facebook / Twitter / Netflix is and how much of the potential audience for a service like this is being neglected?
[+] [-] bambax|13 years ago|reply
1- I use it so little that I would have to look up my credentials and that's a pain
2- I will never sign into a new / unknown website with Twitter for fear that the website would start tweeting nonsense on my behalf.
[+] [-] engtech|13 years ago|reply
Often when I'm looking for movies to watch, I'll go through the process of looking it up on RT, if what I see there makes the decision that it's some direct to DVD crap, then I want to hide it forever.
In Netflix I've had to resort to giving movies 1 star ratings, but I'd love it if a site would just allow me to HIDE things, because sometimes I also just want to hide a good movie that I don't want to rewatch.
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[+] [-] imalolz|13 years ago|reply
First, no https. I think it's something you owe your less technical users.
Second - no non-social way to sign up. Personally, I find it annoying when I can't use simple email/username+password login. I don't really want to give up my entire social graph+data just to try something out. I realize this might be necessary for your business model, but you can offer me the option to add my social data later on, and I will if I like your service.
[+] [-] crisnoble|13 years ago|reply
Nevertheless, I will continue to use this site as a way to catalog all of the films I see and how much I liked them, and IMO there is no better service out there for this purpose.
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[+] [-] citricsquid|13 years ago|reply
Also, I've signed in and synced my Netflix account and it's still listing American Netflix films under "Recent Releases on Netflix". Might be worth excluding films that aren't available in my area (UK)
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[+] [-] gizzlon|13 years ago|reply
Really? None of them? There are many films I wouldn't watch again, but there are also some that I watch over and over. Just watched Amelie for the 10th time!
It really depends on what makes the movie great.. If it's the surprising storyline, rewatchability is low, but that doesn't make it a worse movie.
[+] [-] pharrington|13 years ago|reply
I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but with Goodfilms, how many people who are rating a movie's rewatchablity have actually rewatched the movie they're rating?
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[+] [-] engtech|13 years ago|reply
Using the IMDB ID number, "0079501", you may access the Rotten Tomatoes Mad Max page using the following URL: Mad Max: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/alias?type=imdbid&s=007950...
I know you probably can't display the rotten tomatoes score, but it would be interesting to have that data internally.
I challenge anyone to find a movie with an RT score below 40% or IMDB score below 4/10 that was worth watching.
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[+] [-] khet|13 years ago|reply
I like watching movies with my family and its hard to find good pg or pg-13 movies to watch. The family section on most sites is filled with animated movies so if you are looking for a non-animated family movie you're out of luck.
I really hope someone out there is working on an app that gets you the best movies to watch that are safe to watch with young kids and family.
[+] [-] geelen|13 years ago|reply
They've got an iphone app too, if that helps.
edit: oops, the link: http://www.bbfc.co.uk/
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[+] [-] wtvanhest|13 years ago|reply
Amazon on the other hand is a totally different animal. I find Amazon's search for Prime (free) movies incredibly challenging. This kind of tool would add far more value to their system and is probably the only way I would browse if it were available.
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Would be great if there's an IMDb link to the movie in the details view page.
[+] [-] engtech|13 years ago|reply
Add the end of any description: Read more on External IMDB External Wikipedia
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