Klection
That’s the name of this new thing I concocted. It’s a website that allows you to build your collection of movies, TV shows, and video games. Specify which ones you actually own or simply the ones you’ve watched or played. Post comments and reviews about them and their respective artists and creators. The interface is fairly clean and simple, so hopefully the experience is intuitive. I whipped the site up within a couple of weeks because I could not find anything else out there that lets you keep track of stuff this way. Hopefully it’s useful for others as well.
Klection gets its data from Freebase, which is a tool similar to Wikipedia but much easier for other websites to access, and which also allows you to correct erroneous or incomplete data yourself if you happen to notice any. I’m running the site on Google App Engine, a hot-off-the-press framework that enables Python developers to build very scalable sites that employ Google’s infrastructure. So without further ado, go give Klection a try, and let me know your thoughts.
I like it, but I find it difficult to build up my initial collection, searching for each movie, then viewing the details, then clicking “add to my collection”, then choosing “I own it as dvd / bd”.. If you can make that somehow easier (checkboxes to the search results and a button to add it to your catalog?) it would be nice. I was also thinking about a webapp like this and couldn’t find any, then I thought “I’ll make it on google apps” and found yours :-)
Thanks for the feedback. I agree that search results with the relevant options and a “add these to my collection” button would be pretty sweet. Of course that’s a bit of extra work, and like you say, would only be needed when you first start adding things. I think I’ll be a bit too busy in the next few months to add this, but hopefully it still gets the job done for you. Maybe I can take another look in a few months, hopefully!