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Life & fun · January 5, 2014

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Feeling-based movie search

My dad and I had a little idea to build a movie site, where the movies are tagged by what feelings they evoke instead of just genres. This was influenced by how playlists are tagged on 8tracks, and how game levels are tagged in LittleBigPlanet. We threw something functional together, and would like to get some feedback on the idea/site. It allows anyone to tag movies with a variety of adjectives, and for a user to search by them. This sort of tagging would allow us to find movies that are alike, a user to track which types of movies he/she likes, and offer a recommendation system…

Feeling-based movie search launched on January 5, 2014 with 10 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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Feeling-based movie search is a movie discovery platform that organizes films by the emotions they evoke rather than traditional genres. Users can tag movies with descriptive adjectives and search by feeling to find similar films. The site is designed for anyone looking to discover movies based on emotional tone, track personal preferences, and receive personalized recommendations based on the emotional tagging data accumulated across the community.

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My dad and I had a little idea to build a movie site, where the movies are tagged by what feelings they evoke instead of just genres. This was influenced by how playlists are tagged on 8tracks, and how game levels are tagged in LittleBigPlanet. We threw something functional together, and would like to get some…

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