CinemaQuest
A scavenger-hunt style app for movie lovers: collect badges by watching films in rare formats (IMAX 70mm, Super Panavision 70mm, 70mm IMAX reissue) and unlock a personal log of every premium-format screening you've attended.
Cinema-going hobbyists who collect experiences like others collect Blu-ray steelbooks
- Quest log that auto-recognizes a ticket photo or QR and adds the screening to your 'premium cinema passport'
- Trophy badges for milestones: 'First 70mm', 'Three Christopher Nolan 70mm films', 'Ode to a 1.43:1 theater'
- Friends feed so you can see which rare-format screenings your local cinema circle is attending
- Theater directory that surfaces obscure 70mm-equipped venues on road trips
With only ~24 IMAX 70mm theaters in the US and The Odyssey driving new curiosity, there's a fresh wave of fans hungry to track and share their premium-format viewings like a sport.
Premium-format curiosity is real — Hacker News thread and Letterboxd's new format-logging feature (promoted by Tom Holland for The Odyssey) confirm active appetite, but Letterboxd is capturing it on a massive existing social graph.Tom Holland Invites Letterboxd Users to Track The Odyssey by Screening Format ↗The Odyssey star Tom Holland encourages Letterboxd users to track formats ↗
Letterboxd literally just shipped premium-format logging for The Odyssey (their first-ever format field) and open-source IMAX-70mm-tracker already handles ticket-drop alerts — the 'wide-open market' assumption collapses on contact with reality.Letterboxd Is Doing Something Super Geeky for 'The Odyssey' ↗GitHub - pbswimmer3/IMAX-70MM-tracker ↗
Target users already pay for Letterboxd Pro (~$19/yr) and expect social/discovery features with it; a standalone badge-and-log app has weak differentiation to justify a subscription, and the niche (~24 US 70mm IMAX venues × few repeat attendees) caps the addressable base.Best Letterboxd Alternatives in 2026 (By What You Actually Need) ↗Movie Tracker for Cinephiles & Film Fans | Limelight ↗
Premium-format theatrical releases are event-driven and Nolan-dependent (Oppenheimer, Odyssey); between tentpole cycles interest fades, making a hobbyist app feel more like a marketing-tie-in product than a durable category.The Role of Gamification in User Experience on Cinema Platforms ↗
Mobile app with format tagging, badge engine, and personal log is straightforward CRUD over existing showtime data; main cost is scraping/scraping-partnership work that the open-source IMAX-70MM-tracker already demonstrates is buildable.GitHub - pbswimmer3/IMAX-70MM-tracker ↗