Show HN: I made TV Sort, a web-based game for ranking TV show episodes
Over this Christmas break, while discussing the best episodes of Frasier with my mother (as we tend to do when I get to see her), I thought about coming up with something that's less arbitrary than 1-10 ratings. The result is TV Sort. It just uses a sorting algorithm, but... it's human powered. When the algorithm needs to compare two items, it asks you to compare them, and with that you end up with a full, thoroughly sorted episode list. It uses TMDB, IMDB, and Wikipedia to extract episode information for any show, to help jog your memory when making episode comparisons. It was a fun little experiment. And finally, I know -exactly- what I think the best and worst episodes are.[0] Would love to hear your feedback, this is my first Show HN. ;) Edit: I wrote a whole blog post about what went into making it, if anyone wants to read more of the technical detail behind it.[1] [0]: ht
Why it failed
Over this Christmas break, while discussing the best episodes of Frasier with my mother (as we tend to do when I get to see her), I thought about coming up with something that's less arbitrary than 1-10 ratings. The result is TV Sort. It just uses a sorting algorithm, but...
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- pocketarc
- Ended
- 2024
- Source
- hackernews