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How big is the Netflix webapp, though? There's what, 5 or 6 main content "views", then around 20 user-editable forms? Plus the help site. Am I viewing this incorrectly? It doesn't just doesn't feel like Netflix is a large app from the UI perspective - maybe that's just good design.

Hope this doesn't come off as "I could do this in a weekend", just questioning how big the actual webapp is.

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I believe you would be surprised were you to look under the hood.

There are a number of different "UI areas" in Netflix.com -- homepage, titles, signup (multiple flavors of this, depending on how you're signing up), onboarding, member browsing/viewing experiences, account management, numerous partner integrations, etc... not to mention all the work that goes into per-user customization, AB testing, and internationalization.

No offense taken on the question. IMO, if you look at the site and view it as simple then we've done our job correctly. :)

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