Reddit user yombato had always been a fan of Rotten Tomatoes, the popular movie review aggregator. But one thing bothered him when he would try to use the site.

“I was a frequent user of Rotten Tomatoes to find new movies, but I found its search ability was very limited,” he tells Upvoted. “They have a great database of information but aren’t allowing users to properly interact with it.”

Instead of hoping the site would improve its user functionality, the 29-year-old software developer from Cumbria in England went about solving the problem himself. But his ingenuity didn’t stop with figuring out how to make Rotten Tomatoes more useful.

“This idea then progressed into a more general idea of creating a straight-to-the-point way of querying lots of movie rating data in order to find new movies,” yombato says.

This led to the creation of Cinesift, an online searchable database of about 21,000 movies that are updated daily along with their ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, IMDb, Letterboxd, and Metacritic. After posting a link to Cinesift in the Data Is Beautiful community Monday, more than 90,000 have used the site, yombato shares.

“Since Cinesift’s release [in October], users have sifted over 220,000 movies, and there seems to be a strong user base that keeps returning,” he says. “Hopefully, more people will discover Cinesift, and it will continue to grow.”

The people who have discovered the site have been giving yombato feedback in the Reddit post. Those suggestions also have led to the user making changes and updates on the fly to the site.

“The Netflix and Amazon Prime functionality was tagged on after the initial release since there were lots of requests from the initial users,” yombato explains, referring to the database’s ability to show if a title is available through those online movie sites. In fact, yombato even made an improvement on that improvement by adding a ‘Watch on Amazon’ button for movies that can be streamed from that site, and he plans to do something similar for Netflix’s streaming service.

“At the moment, there are a lot of things on the feature list,” he says, “and I’ll get round to working on them when I get the time.”