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Mara’s side project became a subscription service called . It didn’t replace IMDb—it sat on top of it, answering questions IMDb never knew to ask.

IMDb’s advanced search let her filter by genre, year, and rating—but not budget, setting, or sound design details. So she built a personal tool: she scraped IMDb’s public data, cross-referenced it with budget reports from indie databases, and added her own manual tags. movie database imdb

In 2019, a small indie film editor named Mara was struggling to find reference movies for a low-budget sci-fi she was cutting. She needed films with very specific traits: “shot in the desert on less than $2M, has a scene of someone alone in a diner at night, and a synth score but no explosions.” Mara’s side project became a subscription service called