You Should Watch
I built a to-do list for movies and TV shows. Built on NextJS, deployed in Vercel, storage in Google Firebase, QA'ed with Playwright, designed with Pico.css, backed by The Movie DB, free and fun.
You Should Watch launched on February 1, 2023 with 5 votes, #1,864 of 3,829 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
What it does
tl;dr You Should Watch is a mobile-friendly web app for remembering and sharing movies and TV shows you should watch. Like a to-do list to open when you finally sit down with the remote in your hand.
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