Looks great Atestu!
I'm curious as to where you're getting your data! I'm building out something similar at the moment and I'm using TheMovieDb.org
I noticed you're using Rails as well so I'm just curious which solution you chose!
Rate my startup: http://WatchTh.is is a site for movie lovers
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#32Looks great Atestu! I'm curious as to where you're getting your data! I'm building out something similar at the moment and I'm using TheMovieDb.org I noticed you're using Rails as well so I'm just curious which solution you chose!
I think they are using TMDB and Heroku for their hosting++ services.
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#33Looks great Atestu! I'm curious as to where you're getting your data! I'm building out something similar at the moment and I'm using TheMovieDb.org I noticed you're using Rails as well so I'm just curious which solution you chose!
I think they are using TMDB and Heroku for their hosting++ services.
I would be curious to find out which library (if any) they're using to interact with the TMDB API... I wrote one of the two Ruby libraries available (ruby-tmdb) so I would love to get some feedback from them if they are using it!
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#34Please add the ability to edit comments. I made a spelling mistake and had to delete the comment and repost it with corrections.
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#35Nice website. I think you should consider making it a widget for the Apple tv, Google tv, yahoo tv,... also meetup.com has movie meetups. You may want to contact some of the leaders about your site.
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#36Looks great Atestu! I'm curious as to where you're getting your data! I'm building out something similar at the moment and I'm using TheMovieDb.org I noticed you're using Rails as well so I'm just curious which solution you chose!
Hi Aaron! We're indeed using your gem, I e-mailed you about some caching issues back in August, you fixed everything since.
Great gem, thanks for everything :-)
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#37Please add the ability to edit comments. I made a spelling mistake and had to delete the comment and repost it with corrections.
We'll definitely do that. It happens to me all the time.
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#38Nice website. I think you should consider making it a widget for the Apple tv, Google tv, yahoo tv,... also meetup.com has movie meetups. You may want to contact some of the leaders about your site.
Apple TV, Google TV? Why not. That's a cool idea. We hadn't thought of that. We'll see when they release their SDKs.
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#39Looks great Atestu! I'm curious as to where you're getting your data! I'm building out something similar at the moment and I'm using TheMovieDb.org I noticed you're using Rails as well so I'm just curious which solution you chose!
Hi Aaron! We're indeed using your gem, I e-mailed you about some caching issues back in August, you fixed everything since. Great gem, thanks for everything :-)
Ah so you did Kevin!
Sorry, I didn't tweak to the connection immediately as the original poster had a different name...
I'm really glad to hear the Gem is working well for you! Please let me know if you guys have any further feedback now that you're using it in production!
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#40Wow! Nice work. I had the exact same idea awhile back and even started on a prototype version of it. Really happy (and a bit jealous) to see it done so well. Some of the things that I thought would be good: Auto-complete (with a drop-down box) for the search box is a really nice way to search a restricted domain like movie names. This reference was useful for me: http://www.webreference.com/programming/javascript/ncz…
First off, thanks for all the ideas. I like your enthusiasm.
We'll look into auto-completion. Thanks for the article.
We love the fact that you can see what you and another user want to see. It's a simple idea but one people love the most.
For now you can make lists by adding a tag. e.g. http://watchth.is/tag/one-day. We're working on making lists more interesting (rewards when you watch a complete list… like badges maybe? :)
Some options for sorting movies would be very nice indeed. It's on the list.
Privacy as a premium feature is a great idea. Maybe add the ability to export your data like nithinpb suggested in the comments?
The year is on the hover overlay in the search results only for now. But yeah, maybe we could add it everywhere.
Other HN users suggested that we be clear about our intentions regarding how we'll use the twitter/facebook data. We'll definitely do that. In the future you'll be able to auto-post your comments, but we'll always ask nicely first, of course.
We have some issues from time to time with IMDB. Their CDN can be a bit capricious and their data on movies that are not yet released is often incomplete. That said, we don't want to focus on recently released movies but more on movies you should have seen a long time ago. The goal is NOT to watch recent movies but to build yourself a solid cinematographic culture (not sure that's correct English but I'm sure you get what I'm saying).
We'll definitely add affiliate links. Amazon, iTunes, and Netflix.
We'll write a post in a few weeks just for you. Thanks again.
UPDATE: follow http://twitter.com/WatchThis_ ;)