Hey ProductHunt people 👋
I’m Amine, software developer for more than 2 years now. Today will be forever in my memory no matter the outcome of this ProductHunt launch. I'm super excited to launch Movydick: And The Oscar Goes To, a fun game of votes where you can vote and predict the winners of the next Oscar Awards 2023. ✨
I’ve been working on it for a little over a month now in public on Twitter and I got an awesome encouragement. I market it on Reddit and my strategy was pretty successful in there. I got a very nice feedback and a lot of traffic from there. And now and for the next couple of hours - or even days if my product is crazy enough haha - I will be so happy to see how am I gonna do in Product Hunt. 🥳
I'm not selling you anything.
My main objectives are:
👉 Reaching an audience of highly-engaged product lovers.
👉 Getting feedback that would help me improve not only the specific side project I'm launching but also the main app in itself.
👉 Collecting social proof in the form of reviews and testimonials.
👉 Meeting another builders like me who just love building stuff they dreamed about one night
The main idea
As a huge fan of movies I thought about building a project around movies and TV Shows since that would be a passion project that I can never think about shutting down one day.
So Movydick started as a movie recommendation app back in March 2022. I launched it for the first time in May 2022.
And recently I decided to build a side project inside that project... because why not? The Oscar Awards are coming next March so I thought why not? Let's do it. And the feedback it got was mind-blowing for me.
I will never ever stop working on this app. Because I've became so obsessed with it.
For me this app is not an app anymore. It's like a human being living with me. It's a part of my life now 🙂
And there is a lot coming.
Now you just gotta stay tuned... coz I'm not gonna slow down!
You can upvote if you think I deserve it. But the most important thing for me is a comment. I would appreciate it so much. Even if you think the app sucks just tell me haha.
Cheers!!
@mohamed_zakarya Thank you so much Mohamed for the feedback! I have no monetization plan for this specific side project I launched yesterday (Oscar Votes) - it was just fun to build and wanted to share the fun with others. But other future side projects in the Movydick Universe really have a big potential to be monetized. I am not promising anything because my love & passion for this app always outweighs any financial goals. But if any, then my monetization plans would be like @thepetermick does with his AI writing assistant - Copylime.com - a pay as you go model. I always thought for example about limiting the clicks on "Random Movie Recommendation" and "Random Show Recommendation" on my other random recommendation feature by providing 5 free movie & show recommendations at the beginning and if you are still not satisfied with the recommendations you got, you should buy more credits 5 or 10 or so (still just an idea). If I ever monetize any part of Movydick it would be only to help me afford the expenses to keep it alive - Supabase ($25/mo) + Vercel ($20/mo) + any API I could integrate with TMDB API that i am actually using, etc...
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Congratulations on the launch, Amine! 👏🚀 Can't wait to see if the votes of the public match the ones of the Academy Awards members 😊
@luciebaratte Hey Lucie!!! It's so great to see you here. I can't wait too 😊 Thank you so much for the comment. Means a lot to me. I'm wondering where is Dago? Is he still asleep? 😂
Anyways...
I'm actually building a simple login system so when logged users vote they can have their own My Votes section where they can see all the votes they made and compare with the final results on March 12, 2023.
Maybe I can even give them a score for how many predictions they got right. It won't be very easy to code though haha.
It's so cool to see Movydick on ProductHunt today 😄
I still remember when I first gave it a try and since then you've added so many improvements, one can really see that you put a lot of love into this project
Congrats and all the best for the launch Amine 🚀
@dominiksumer Thank you so much Dominik!!! 🙏🏼 The amount of love I got from people is so overwhelming😍 Even if the day ends with me being at the very end of the leaderboard I would never be sad or disappointed because It's super emotional to see how far I went with that app that was supposed to be just a small fun app that I would launch on May 2022 and then move onto something else. But i just fall in love with it 💛. I can never leave it now 🥺 It's just like my baby. Or more.
Congratulations @amineaouraghone ! I discovered MovyDick ( I love the name ♥️ ) some days ago and have been using it for a while to find some new stuff to watch. Solid work!
@codemanki Thank you so much Oleksii!! Thank you for your love, your support and your time. It means so much to me. Much more than anything else going on in my life right now.
@al_walid_ashik Thank you so much for the support Walid!!! Yeah I love movies so I thought about taking advantage of that period before the Oscars to give myself and other people the chance to vote and predict who's gonna win. I can see if I can give scores to logged users after the final oscar results comes out so they can see how many predictions they got right.
Congrats on the launch today Amine, it's been a pleasure to watch your progress building this app. Its a great idea for a cool project and a great to see a concept like this being launched. I also personally love your design style, it feels different from lots of sites and I love it. Keep up the great work.
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