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AI · October 30, 2023

WatchNow AI 2.0

There we were, like every other Friday night. I was finishing my glass of wine while pushing away my plate, and out pops the dreaded question. “What should we watch tonight?” She asks. I saw it coming. In fact, I always see it coming. Do I have an answer? Never. But I know how our night will go. We'll sit on the couch, open up the first streaming app, and start the dreaded doom scroll. “This one?” I'd ask. “No, we already watched it.” “How about this?” “I’m not into it.” And so it goes through the apps one by one until we run out of time and settle for a re-run of Sex and the City or The…

WatchNow AI 2.0 launched on October 30, 2023 with 99 votes, #726 of 4,393 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

What it does

WatchNow AI is the first movie recommendation app powered by AI. Over 49,000 people across the world have used WNA to stop scrolling and start watching. We've made 2.0 easier to use and added trailers, descriptions, the ability to save a watchlist, and more!

WatchNow AI is now closed. Thank you for watching with us.

In the maker’s words, at launch

There we were, like every other Friday night. I was finishing my glass of wine while pushing away my plate, and out pops the dreaded question. “What should we watch tonight?” She asks. I saw it coming. In fact, I always see it coming. Do I have an answer? Never. But I know how our night will go. We'll sit on the…

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