watchparty

I was chatting with Rahul & Venky about my projects, and showed them dicelab... they got excited, and suggested that making this specific to a particular space - like what to watch would make it more useful! This removes the decision fatigue of figuring out what to watch, and endless scrolling.

We also discussed how large scale recommendations are broken, and just being able to roll the die and seeing what your friends have watched will make it more special.

• I started out with a slot machine design, and then changed to the dice roller design
• Need to figure out how to make the dice look 3d... that's still a challenge!
• Thinking through wall, follow, and other "small" social mechanics (to be explored further!)
• Figuring out how to get the movie set: initially used a CSV from chatgpt, and then integrated TMBD APIs

• Integrating with TMDB API
• First time that I created scripts to add movies into the DB, and to enhance them with actors + director information