About Filmaster
Filmaster allows you to discover the world of movies. It recommends what you should watch tonight at your local theater, on TV, or on Netflix, based on your unique taste in movies. Activity on Filmaster earns you badges and even real prizes like DVDs and movie tickets.
The Core Team
Borys Musielak aka michuk is the founder and CEO of Filmaster. He has worked in IT since 2002, most recently (till August 2010) as a consultant for Deutsche Bank in London. Borys also founded a citizen journalist startup, OSnews.pl, which grew from 0 to half a million page views in 3 months (launched in 2007) and is now one of the most popular Polish websites covering IT news. Filmaster is his second venture. Follow Borys on Twitter.
Jakub Tlalka is the CTO. He is a maths and computer science student at University of Warsaw, a finalist and winner of math and computer science olympiads (BOI 2008, Baltic Way). He designed and implemented the recommendation engine and is responsible for the algorithms. Follow Jakub Tlalka on Twitter.
Pawel Czerski aka bober is our product guy. He is the usability expert and CSS god. Yes, a god. He makes sure it's all shining and the users are happy. Pawel is the organizer of Front-Trends and Falsy Values - front-end conferences with world-renowned speakers, first of their kind in Eastern Europe. Follow Pawel Czerski on Twitter.
Investors and business advisors
We are supported by HackFwd, a pre-seed investment company designed to enable great people to launch great ideas. Their start-up and support process accelerates the route to beta, profitability, and success. HackFwd invested in Filmaster 191k EUR in July 2011. Follow HackFwd on Twitter.
Chris Kowalczyk is our business advisor. He's the Founder and Managing Partner of UBIK Business Consulting (Polish management consultancy with the focus on TMT companies and technology startups) and Partner at an early stage VC fund HardGamma Ventures. He also co-founded or invested in Macoscope.net, Codility.com (Seedcamp'09 winner), AIBotTeam, ORIAQ.com and Cuberoot.pl. Mentor at Seedcamp (WAW'09, SCWeek'09, Prague'10, Berlin'11), IPO48 (Prague 11), Labstar and Springboard accelerators, referrer with HackFwd.com. Follow Krzysztof on Twitter.
Contributors
The Filmaster team is bigger than that! Mariusz Krynski and Lech Twarog are our Python programmers. Dominik Stranz is the iPhone expert working on the iPhone app, while Tomasz Pawlowski works on the Android version. The dev team in located in Poland. Codie Entwistle and Katarzyna Szyszko are our London-based film reviewers. And there are more than 50 moderators who make sure the content on the webiste is always up to date.
The Community
It's about you. Yes, you. You are the owner of this website as well. Check out Filmaster.org to learn more about the free nature of Filmaster from developer's perspective and read about our open film recommendation API. Also, read about the license of content to understand that on Filmaster it is you who own your data, not us or anyone else. And finally: contribute! We're counting on you. Only together we can make Filmaster grow big!