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Cinema Seating Strategist

A simple tool that reads a cinema seating chart and picks the best seat that's still free, based on my taste.

Type
AI tool
Timeline
Built 2025
Role
Design & build, end to end
Status
Personal · micro-utility
Cinema Seating Strategist — a seating chart with the best free seat highlighted, illustrated
The problem

Booking a cinema seat is a tiny, repeated annoyance. You squint at a grid of taken and free seats and try to guess the best one left.

The approach

So I taught a small tool to do the squinting for me.

01

Reads the seating chart straight from a photo

02

Learns my seat preferences and applies them every time

03

Ranks the seats and explains why the top one wins

04

Never suggests a seat that's already taken

The part I love

It reads a photo, then explains its pick

It reads the seating chart from a picture, then turns my taste into a real ranking of available options. Every pick comes with a reason, so I can trust it or overrule it.

The outcome
10+ films
enjoyed from an optimal vantage point
30 secs
to deliver personalized recommendations
Multiple
friends also using the tool for their cinema trips

I have thoroughly enjoyed my vantage points at all films watched using the tool!

AIMicro-utility

A small personal tool, so ask and I can show you it reading a real seating chart.

Let's build

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