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Re: Show HN: A database for browsing and discovering movies

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Post by PublicEnemy111 »

oldboyFX wrote: post #47
artursapek wrote: post #45

Wow, after playing with it for 60 seconds my wife and I found a Humphrey Bogart movie we had never heard of that we are now going to watch. You should work on adding Amazon video links to it with a referral code, could be a good way to capitalize on this!

Amazon and Hulu integration is on our todo list. It's unfortunate that we can't pull Netflix data since they're shutting down their api in 10 days.

Netflix's selection is too limited for my taste. Your app looks beautiful btw!

Re: Show HN: A database for browsing and discovering movies

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Post by tanveerhn »

oldboyFX wrote: post #77
frakkingcylons wrote: post #74

Beautiful website, I love the look and feel. One suggestion, I wish I could navigate between movies with the arrow keys in the close-up view.

Will be adding that feature tommorow!

Came to request the same! Just curious, what's the stack and how long did it take you to build this? I love the look and feel... I am having some issues with signing in though. Twitter and Facebook oauth doesn't seem to be working.

Re: Show HN: A database for browsing and discovering movies

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Post by oldboyFX »

bhudman wrote: post #85

I am curious... how do sites like these make money? Youtube?

We make no profit whatsoever. Movieo is our side passion project.

We could make money through ads(lame, not gonna happen), donations(we could add a button somewhere, but like anyone's gonna donate), amazon etc. links(we'll add those to movie page).

Anyway I doubt we'll make any money on this. And it doesn't matter since that wasn't the point. We just wanted to make something cool that people would use.

Also, we use free stuff all the time. Programming languages are free. Frameworks are free. Sometimes it's nice to give back to community.

We'll be able to put it in our CV's I guess (nobody cares about those either).

Re: Show HN: A database for browsing and discovering movies

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Post by carrotleads »

artursapek wrote: post #45

Wow, after playing with it for 60 seconds my wife and I found a Humphrey Bogart movie we had never heard of that we are now going to watch. You should work on adding Amazon video links to it with a referral code, could be a good way to capitalize on this!

Had seen an app demo from a Melbourne based company who does most of this and had an Amazon link. Haven't dived deep in as it was a UX testing session. Should I mention the name/link, not sure of the ethics of it when someone does a Show HN.

Re: Show HN: A database for browsing and discovering movies

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Post by oldboyFX »

tanveerhn wrote: post #83
oldboyFX wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Will be adding that feature tommorow!

Came to request the same! Just curious, what's the stack and how long did it take you to build this? I love the look and feel... I am having some issues with signing in though. Twitter and Facebook oauth doesn't seem to be working.

The stack is

backend: Postgre/Unicorn/RoR

frontend: SCSS/CoffeeScript/jQuery (no css/js frameworks)

We've been working on this for the past couple of months in our spare time. TBH I have no idea how many hours it took.

The login was broken for some users, we think it's fixed now but were not sure...it's hard to reproduce the error. Please tell us if it's working now!

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