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Show HN : Flicksery - A Netflix Search Engine (my side project)

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Re: Show HN : Flicksery - A Netflix Search Engine (my side project)

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Post by phenomenon »

revorad wrote: post #2

Looks pretty awesome! Is this your startup or just a side project? I'd love to hear some details about the backend stack.

This is just a side project which I basically did to find better movies in Netflix. I did not like the

This is built on Ruby On Rails and MySql as the database. I use Sunspot Solr for Rails for better text search.

Re: Show HN : Flicksery - A Netflix Search Engine (my side project)

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Post by Ramp_ »

Kudos to you for building this.

I actually had a netflix free trial about 6 months ago, but searching for content on offer was awful. I actually didn't take a subscription because I didn't think the collection of movies/tv shows was of high enough quality or large enough, but perhaps I just couldn't find what I was looking for!

Re: Show HN : Flicksery - A Netflix Search Engine (my side project)

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Post by phenomenon »

Ramp_ wrote: post #5

Kudos to you for building this. I actually had a netflix free trial about 6 months ago, but searching for content on offer was awful. I actually didn't take a subscription because I didn't think the collection of movies/tv shows was of high enough quality or large enough, but perhaps I just couldn't find what I was looking for!

I too had the same problem, but off and on I did find movies that were really good but were hidden somewhere. The only way I could explore it was by building something of my own. After writing this app I have been able to discover some really awesome stuff on Netflix. Really glad that you liked it. Thanks.
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