bookmyshow-ai-clone
🎬 AI-Powered Movie Ticket Booking System (bookmyshow-ai-clone)
Summary
Developed a full-stack, intelligent movie booking platform integrating AI-driven components like a movie recommender system, seat demand predictor, fraud detection engine, and GPT-4 chatbot assistant. Inspired by BookMyShow, but reimagined with modern AI.
#### ✅ Pilot Project Overview: “Book Your Show” App
This is a movie/event ticket booking app that includes:
🎬 Movie Listings (from a mock or real API)
🗓️ Showtimes and Availability
📍 Location-Based Venue Selection
🎟️ Ticket Booking Flow
💳 Dummy Payment Gateway
🔍 Search & Filter
🧾 Booking Confirmation Page
An intelligent, full-stack movie ticket booking system built with Next.js, Node.js, Flask, and OpenAI GPT-4, inspired by the functionality of BookMyShow.
📌 Overview
An intelligent full-stack clone of BookMyShow, enhanced with cutting-edge AI features:
- 🎥 Smart movie recommendations
- 🧠 AI-powered chatbot assistant (GPT-4)
- 📊 Seat demand forecasting
- 🛡️ Fraud detection module
- 🧩 Modular microservices architecture
🚀 Features
- 🎦 Browse and book movies with real-time seat selection
- 🧠 ML-powered Recommender System (Collaborative Filtering)
- 📈 Seat Demand Predictor using XGBoost
- 🔐 Fraud Detection Agent for secure bookings
- 🤖 GPT-4 Chatbot Assistant for conversational booking
- 💳 Razorpay Sandbox Payment Integration
- 🧪 Postman Collection for API testing
- 🌐 Deployed on Vercel + Render
🤖 AI Modules
- Smart Recommender System: Collaborative filtering for user-personalized movie suggestions.
- Seat Demand Forecasting: XGBoost model trained on booking history.
- Fraud Detection Engine: Logistic regression to flag payment anomalies.
- AI Chat Assistant: GPT-4-based conversational flow to help users book tickets.
⚙️ Architecture
- Frontend: React.js with Tailwind CSS
- Backend: Node.js + Express.js
- AI Services: Flask-based microservices
- Database: MongoDB (Mongoose)
- Deployment: Render / Vercel / Azure (optional)
🧩 Tech Stack
| Layer | Technology | |—————|————————-| | Frontend | Next.js, Tailwind CSS | | Backend | Node.js (Express.js) | | ML Services | Python (Flask), scikit-learn, XGBoost | | Chatbot | OpenAI GPT-4 API | | Database | MongoDB (Atlas) | | Payment | Razorpay / Stripe (sandbox) | | Deployment | Vercel, Render | | DevOps | GitHub + CI/CD (optional) | |Authentication |JWT / Firebase Auth | —
🧠 AI Agents
| Agent Name | Type | Function |
|---|---|---|
| 🎬 Movie Recommender | Learning Agent | Suggests movies using user preferences |
| 📊 Seat Demand Predictor | Predictive Agent | Forecasts seat availability for shows |
| 🔐 Fraud Detection Bot | Reflex Agent | Flags risky payment behavior |
| 🤖 GPT Booking Chatbot | NLP Agent | Books tickets via OpenAI GPT interaction |
👉Key Contributions:
Developed microservices using Node.js (Express) and Flask (Python)
Built ML models: Collaborative Filtering, XGBoost seat prediction, Logistic regression fraud detector
Integrated OpenAI GPT-4 API for conversational ticket booking
Implemented secure, sandboxed Razorpay payment gateway
Deployed frontend on Vercel, backend and ML services on Render
Authored README, Postman suite, and deployment docs for production readiness
Stack: Next.js · Node.js · Flask · MongoDB · Razorpay · OpenAI · Python · Vercel · Render
📦 Repository Structure
```bash /bookmyshow-ai/ ├── client/ # Next.js Frontend ├── server/ # Node.js + Express Backend ├── ai_services/ # Flask ML Microservices ├── docs/ # Redoc API Docs (GitHub Pages) ├── postman/ # Postman Collection ├── .github/ # GitHub Actions CI/CD └── README.md # You’re here!
📦 How to Run Locally
```bash
Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/your-username/bookmyshow-ai-clone.git cd bookmyshow-ai-clone
Start frontend
cd client npm install npm run dev
Start backend
cd ../server npm install npm run dev
Start ML APIs
cd ../ml-services pip install -r requirements.txt python app.py
🧱 App Features (Polished)
🎬 Home Page Polished movie cards with poster, genre, ratings.
Hover effects and click-to-details.
📄 Movie Details Page Showtimes by city and venue.
“Book Now” CTA per showtime.
🎟 Booking Page Visual seat layout.
Seat selection with availability status.
Booking form with name, contact, and show info.
✅ Booking Confirmation Shows ticket ID, seats, movie info.
Option to “View My Bookings”.
🧾 My Bookings Page Shows your past tickets (linked to mock user ID).
Responsive & clean layout.
✨ UI Preview (Tailwind Based) Imagine this:
Hero section with dynamic banner slider.
Modern card grids.
Neon accent buttons.
Dark/light mode toggle (optional).
Elegant modals for booking confirmation.