Because the real secret sauce here, the thing that makes NeoDB so compelling as a platform, is that you can just hook into existing systems to create search results. If someone writes a review for that result, hey, that review and the thing being reviewed can both be federated. You get a comprehensive catalogue of things most people know about, and an easy way to review or add them to your “To Read / To Watch / To Listen” list.

That’s what has me intrigued - it could hold data on action figures, trading cards, merchandise, food, furniture, places, etc. Everything you own or see or listen to, or everywhere you go could go in there. Oddly, it strikes me that everyone you know could also be in there but that feels like the start of a dystopian movie - Rate Me.

It’s why I think NeoDB is selling it short and I’d make the pitch for it to be called AllDB.

Surprisingly, there are far fewer integrations for data import than there are for search providers: right now, the platform only lets you import from Douban, Goodreads, Letterboxd, and RSS feeds for podcasts.

Yeah, this needs to be expanded, a lot. As I’ve argued, IMDb importing seems a no-brainer (it would be almost identical to the Letterboxd importer they already have).