Moviestar.ie
April 11th, 2008
Moviestar.ie DVD rental by post; Ireland’s answer to Netflix. It’s none of my business but, if everything is done through their website, then step 1 is to make a website that works.
Consider the amount of resources that Netflix have spent in developing their site to improve search and recommendations. Now consider Moviestar.ie, where you enter the exact movie title into the box, select “search by title”, and your search string is then processed by a team of retarded blind dwarves who return a thousand random Gregory Peck movies for you to choose from. So you spend ages searching by director or by year of release to assemble your queue of movies, and a week later they send you Terminator 3.
I like Moviestar.ie - the free trial is a nice bonus. But seriously, and this is something I see with nearly every new Irish web initiative, please speak to professional web developers who know what they’re doing. Ask Irish-Roots - it doesn’t matter how good your database is if you can’t search even search it.
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July 15th, 2008 at 18:44 pm
Hi, Gavin here, co-founder of Moviestar.ie. We do appreciate the constructive criticism of the site, and upon reading your post, we have looked in the problem. It turns out we had difficulties searching for titles starting with ‘The’. I am delighted to say it’s fixed now.
I hope you enjoy using the service, and if you have any other issues just let us know! We really do want to be the best DVD rental service in Ireland.
Gavin
July 15th, 2008 at 21:30 pm
Glad to hear it Gavin - I canceled just last week, but that was because I just don’t have time to watch the movies. The service itself was good.