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Re: Show HN: Tello, a simple way to manage TV shows – built with React/Redux

#11

Post by joshwcomeau »

alfla wrote: post #10

Cool. The design is pretty slick, the calendar is currently not working for me. Nevertheless, here are some first impressions: - When adding shows, why do I first have to select a show and then press "add show"? It would maybe make sense if I could continue searching and add multiple shows, but right now it seems like an unnecessary extra step. - It would be nice to see some more information about each show. Even tho…

Yeah, good points. I optimized it around adding a single show, not around the initial experience of adding a bunch of shows.

And yeah, initially it didn't have the region as a subheading, and so it was impossible to tell if you were getting the US or UK variant of The Office. You're right that more information would be useful!

Thanks for the feedback :)

Re: Show HN: Tello, a simple way to manage TV shows – built with React/Redux

#13

Post by mysterpaul »

I like the idea, I've been looking for something like this. Some feedback for my preferences:

* would like higher information density, almost half the screen is the title bar and nav bar. the buttons don't need to be so big.

* I think the home page should be "backlog." the summary page isn't that useful to me, unless I want to click on a lot of tiny dots. I just want to see the very next episode I have to watch and be able to mark it as done. maybe instead of showing 4-5 episodes of a show at a time in a row in the backlog, it can just show the next episode, and have more room for other shows.

* would like a nicer dedicated view for managing the show. clicking those tiny boxes is not pleasant for unchecking an episode, and I can't see what episode they are. if I completed a show, the manage show popup doesn't let me do anything besides delete.

* when I add a show from the backlog page, sometimes it disappears and I have to refresh to see it.

Re: Show HN: Tello, a simple way to manage TV shows – built with React/Redux

#14

Post by joshwcomeau »

yeswecatan wrote: post #12

Looks pretty cool. Are you caching the results from the TVMaze api? What do you plan to do if you hit their rate limit?

Yeah, I'm a little worried about that! I didn't expect this to hit front-page D:

I do have a plan for caching, I just haven't implemented it yet.

Re: Show HN: Tello, a simple way to manage TV shows – built with React/Redux

#15

Post by alfla »

joshwcomeau wrote: post #11
alfla wrote: post #10

Cool. The design is pretty slick, the calendar is currently not working for me. Nevertheless, here are some first impressions: - When adding shows, why do I first have to select a show and then press "add show"? It would maybe make sense if I could continue searching and add multiple shows, but right now it seems like an unnecessary extra step. - It would be nice to see some more information about each show. Even tho…

Yeah, good points. I optimized it around adding a single show, not around the initial experience of adding a bunch of shows. And yeah, initially it didn't have the region as a subheading, and so it was impossible to tell if you were getting the US or UK variant of The Office. You're right that more information would be useful! Thanks for the feedback :)

No problem. Keep up the good work, I would really like this to work well :-)

Re: Show HN: Tello, a simple way to manage TV shows – built with React/Redux

#16

Post by stefantheard »

Awesome job dude, this is shockingly similar to something I built (although yours has way better UX!) and I also had the same feeling that spurred you to build this in the first place. I track everything I watch through my profile on my site (http://www.overseer.tv/user/smt)

We even used the same API (thank you based TVMaze).

I'm going to check yours out in more depth later on today.

Re: Show HN: Tello, a simple way to manage TV shows – built with React/Redux

#18

Post by stefantheard »

joshwcomeau wrote: post #5
bastijn wrote: post #3

Congrats on completing a side project to a point you can show it. Just curious, what did you decide to make this project instead of using one of the numerous existing options? It looks beautiful from the landing page!

Yeah, so I spent 2-3 days trying Trakt, which seems like the market leader. I kinda hated it. It's SO feature-packed that it's overwhelming. I don't need every app I use to be a mini-social-network. One of my favourite things is to build a competitor that does _less_. I built http://panther.audio , which is essentially a pretty UI for Spotify's "related artists" feature. It does way less than Spotify, but its narrow…

I felt the same way about Trakt and also tried another site that has 200k active users called sharetv and used it for a while out of necessity. The lean feature-clean approach is better I agree.

Re: Show HN: Tello, a simple way to manage TV shows – built with React/Redux

#20

Post by okramcivokram »

joshwcomeau wrote: post #2

Author here! I created this during my vacation because I wanted it to exist. The joy of being a web developer is being able to create the stuff you wish existed! The repo is here, and the README covers some of the more interesting parts of the codebase: https://github.com/joshwcomeau/Tello

Looks nice, there's a slight bug on the calendar view, see https://imgur.com/d3JJsNd (take a look how "Majority Rule" behaves when switching weeks)

I'd like to see a page with a countdown to next episode air time for all shows, like a reverse timeline.

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