Whatthemovie.com, a movie-still guessing game

About Whatthemovie.com, a movie-still guessing game

Guess the title of a movie just by looking at a snapshot. Register to upload movie stills yourself and compete with others.

In the maker’s words

Hey HN! Long time reader here. I recently spent over five months to modernize an old website I have been working on since 2008: https://whatthemovie.com . This is a simple game where people uploads screenshots from movies, and other players have to guess the title of the movie from where the image was taken. This is really images from movie scenes, not promotional stuff or whatever. We have 70k users (but most are from the 2008-2010 area so inactive), and more than 600k images uploaded by our users for 18 years. Around 30k movies in the database too. Thanks to LLMs I was about to modernize the stack which was in an awful state (Rails 4.2, Ruby 2.4 Spaghettis code, Protoytype.js and CSS code directly in HTML etc). It was exhausting to do all the refactoring and modernization but at the end I'm happy with the result. We also have now "Daily challenges" (like Wordle or framed.wtf) where eve…

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