CrossWatch

Inspiration

• We want a way to share movie recommendations with friends in a fun and personalized way.
• Inspired by Spotify’s discover weekly and playlist features.

What it does

• social media platform for sharing movie playlists with friends
• create movie playlists (collections) and also get AI generated suggestions based on your movie playlists

How we built it

• MERN stack
• Material UI
• themoviedatabase API, openai API

Challenges we ran into

• Finding a unique product idea that has not been done
• Time constraints for developing our desired features

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Completing a semi-functional MVP
• Learning new technologies for first time

What we learned

• Working in cross-functional team to create a meaningful product
• Developing a full stack web application from start to MVP
• API development: using publicly accessible APIs and developing our own RESTful APIs
• How to work in a cross-functional team with other roles

What's next for CrossWatch

• Social aspect: adding friends, sharing, movie reviews
• Implementing AI functionality for personalized recommendations

Built With

• express.js
• figma
• github
• mongodb
• node.js
• openai
• react
• tmdbapi