How it all started
Hello there!
We are Rasim, Teymur, and Tural - co-founders of Raters.
As many of you, we love watching great movies, discovering new actors and directors, and, most importantly, sharing all of this with friends who share a similar passion for cinema.
However, every attempt to watch something new would be accompanied by questions such as "What should we watch?", "What was the movie Emily was talking about?", "What would Pedro say about this film?" and so on...
...and, yes, this would take hours.
To solve this issue for ourselves and for all the movie enthusiasts out there, we decided to create an app that would allow users to connect with people whose taste they trust and have their movie reviews and Watchlists all in one place. In other words - to create Raters.
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Didn't you guys just reinvent the wheel?
With so many movie platforms like IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, and Netflix, why do we need another one? The answer is simple - your friends. If you think about it, quite frequently good movie recommendations emerge from your conversations with friends and acquaintances.
The key difference between Raters and conventional movie platforms is its focus on the social aspect and interaction between movie enthusiasts. Raters allows you to see what movies your friends have watched recently, how they rated them and what they thought about them. Besides, you can like and comment on their reviews, facilitating further discussion, which may lead you to your new favourite movie.
Raters:
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Why do we exist?
We have an ambitious aim to help develop the film industry, and our goals can be categorised into two broad areas:
1. For users, we seek to create a global community of movie lovers where they can share their experiences and find movies that they will enjoy.
2. For independent studios and directors, we seek to create a platform where they can find their relevant audiences, who are most likely to be interested in their films.
Why this campaign is so important for us
It has been a long and rocky (but also a super-fun) road from the day the idea was conceived.
Today we have a fully working version of our app on the App Store (and we would love to hear your feedback!)
What we also have is an avalanche of ideas we would like to test and implement to enhance user experience. Your support would allow us to realize our ambitions and to fulfill our vision of creating a global community of movie enthusiasts!
Campaign Goal
In short, we plan to target our efforts and funding on developing app functionality and adding new features. Based on existing users' feedback, these will include:
1. Trailers
Watch trailers of new releases without leaving the app
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2. Actors and Directors Navigation
Search for trending actors or films by your favourite directors
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3. Extension to Android
Download Raters on Google Play and start following friends who use Android
(We are also keen to release a Web version if we exceed our target!)
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4. Groundbreaking Recommendation System (!)
OK, hear us out here, because we really want you to understand what makes our recommendation system ground-breaking.
Imagine you are trying to get a recommendation from some conventional platform. In most, if not all, cases the result will be based on your previous ratings.
With Raters, you will receive suggestions based on movies you rated, your preferred genres, actors, and directors, as well as tailored recommendations based on who you follow, whose posts you like and comment on, and even how closely your movie taste correlates.
Add those factors together, and your next perfect movie is only a couple clicks away.
We are still working on how this system will be implemented within the app. The way our team envisions it at the moment is a completely new screen (such as the draft design below), in which you can access movie recommendations individually tailored to you. This is still a work-in-progress but it will be perfected each time someone rates a movie.
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Stretch Goals
While user experience remains the most important part of our project, we are also involved with filmmakers, studios and other stakeholders within the film industry.
Therefore, we introduced the so-called "Stretch Goal" - additional milestones we set out in the event we exceed our funding target.
- Engage British Film Institute (BFI) in our project. Collaboration with BFI will allow us to support BFI’s aim "to champion diverse, bold and distinctive films and increase the audiences for them". It is perfectly aligned to what we are hoping achieve at Raters.
- Cooperating with independent studios and directors with the aim of promoting their productions and supporting young talent. Our engagement with directors to date confirmed that they would be interested in Raters to help promote their films to their relevant audience and would thus would greatly optimise their Paper and Advertising (P&A) costs, especially in non-mainstream genres, such art-house, sci-fi and documentaries.
Our projections suggest that once we hit our target cash raised, we will be able to get started on all of the above. So if you're excited about Raters, all you need to do is - back us, buckle up, and join us for the ride!
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What does it look like inside Raters?
The best way to find it out is to download Raters from the App Store (an Android version is in the works!) and explore it on your own. But for the lazy ones out there - have a look at the Raters App Demonstration video below:
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Awesome! ...and what do I get?
Our love and eternal gratitude...what else does one need besides these two?
Just kidding…we have prepared plenty of cool items for our backers that we are sure you'll be delighted with! We'll also make sure that you get them by Xmas, so these perks will be a nice gift to your movie-loving friends.
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Your Premium Account will have a star next to your profile, making you stand out from other users. Your reviews will be shown on top of each page, and you will be recommended to other users as an avid rater. All that’s needed from you is to keep watching movies and producing quality reviews!
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Who Are We?
Our team consists of us (the founders), and dozens of our friends and relatives, who have been supporting us with our project. And it makes sense, because Raters, just as life itself, is all about family and friends. Here is our core team:
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Love Raters but low on budget? You can still help
Don't worry, we still like you. But if you get the word out and make some noise about our campaign we will like you even more! :)
A wide coverage is a cornerstone of a successful campaign, so your "share" may be the one that does it for us!
