This might be what your weekend needs. Reddit user CrazedEli or Ville Salminen in real life built and shared on the r/television subreddit his newest site called Flixable. It’s basically a search engine for Netflix that shows you what’s popular, original, or leaving the streaming service. It’ll let you browse by genre or IMDb rating as well as filter searches based on release date. Salminen said he built the site as a hobby to teach him more about programming but he also realized it addressed a need people still had: how to look for content beyond what Netflix’s algorithm suggests—which admittedly looks like most of their original content but not much of the other content they offer. For now, it catalogs what’s available on Netflix in the US, but he says he’ll be expanding this to include other countries as well.
According to Salminen, “With Flixable, I had one aim. To build a site that would make it easier for Netflix subscribers to choose what to watch on a movie night.” He previously created a similar browsing site for Netflix called AllFlicks but he sold that to Reelgood in November 2017. This new site is basically building on his dream of rebuilding AllFlicks from scratch. He is in talks with Hulu representatives to make a similar site for the service.
Source: Mashable