I built Cinema Circle because every time my group of friends watched a film together, our ratings ended up scattered across Discord, WhatsApp screenshots and someone's notes app. Letterboxd is great for solo logging but it's not built around a group experience.
So Cinema Circle is the group layer: create a community, watch films together, rate on a 0-10 scale with 0.25 step, archive everything with average scores and reviews per member. Plus live voting rooms via Supabase Realtime, a picker wheel for who chooses next, polls, and a Discord bot that posts ratings to your server channel.
Stack: React + TypeScript + Vite, Supabase (Postgres + RLS + Realtime + Storage + Auth), Netlify (Edge Functions for OG meta + 301 redirect logic on slug URLs). The discord bot runs on Fly.io.
Currently 130+ profiles and 50+ communities. Free, no ads, no data selling.
Feedback welcome, especially on the onboarding flow, which I still feel is too friction-y for non-tech users.
The user introduces Cinema Circle, a platform for group movie ratings, leveraging Supabase for real-time features and storage. They seek feedback on the onboarding process, which they find challenging for non-tech users. Another user suggests integrating APIs from movie recommendation engines to enhance the platform.
Could the API of https://moviedive.org or https://showdive.com be incorporated somehow?
And nice work!!
Interesting, hadn't heard of them. Just checked, looks like a recommendation engine based on film characteristics. Cinema Circle is mostly focused on the group rating + voting layer right now (we use TMDB + OMDb for film data), but a "what should we watch tonight?" suggester based on group history would be a cool feature. I'll think about it!
Cool, and note the "dive" sites are totally independent of user behavior - they're based only on the movie/show characteristics - so they could be a nice orthogonal supplement to what you're doing 🤷♂️