Is there a good app for get personalized show and movie recommendations?
Apps exist but miss features users keep asking for. Enter with the missing feature.
34
Opportunity /100
57
Demand /100
94
Competition /100
61
Execution gap /100
16
Apps serving it
6
Mined complaints
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to get personalized show and movie recommendations, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| recommends already-watched content | missing-feature | 1 | keep recommending anime I’ve already watched instead of helping me discover |
| suggests and replays already-watched episodes | bug | 1 | It also constantly plays episodes you’ve already watched, both as suggestions and when trying to watch “next episode” |
| hard to find shows you watch | ux | 1 | Why does it take almost 10 minutes for me to find ONE show I watch |
| rated items shown in streaming recommendations | missing-feature | 1 | If I’ve rated something, I don’t want to see it in the “streaming” section |
| needs more popular shows or movies | missing-feature | 1 | needs more popular shows or movies |
| recommendations now all ads | ux | 1 | every single company that is “suggested” says it’s an “Ad.” |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| IMDb: Movies & TV Shows | 4.8★ | 546,221 | Free |
| Hulu: Stream TV shows & movies | 4.6★ | 1,429,387 | Free |
| Apple TV | 4.8★ | 1,775,418 | Free |
| Fandango at Home: Movies & TV | 4.7★ | 300,744 | Free |
| DISH Anywhere | 4.6★ | 255,609 | Free |
| U-verse | 4.7★ | 389,720 | Free |
| Paramount+ | 4.6★ | 869,802 | Free |
| Crunchyroll | 4.8★ | 1,418,447 | Free |
Should you build it?
Apps exist but miss features users keep asking for. Enter with the missing feature. Opportunity here scores 34 out of 100 — a function of demand, how crowded the field is, and how badly the existing apps perform. Use the live map to compare it against adjacent tasks.
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