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Hmm, the HN title is grossly misleading.. I wonder why?

There's only so much I could fit in the title, and I honestly didn't mean to mislead anyone. I can definitely see how it could be a little misleading now that you mentioned it.

Sorry about that!

Yeah I definitely thought this was sth. about making videos on mobile, but I don't think the title is purposefully trying to mislead anybody. Maybe titles should be allowed to have ~100-120 chars instead of 80, it's a bit too limiting.

What is misleading, and what would be a better title?

From the project Github page:

"inKino - A cross platform movie and showtime browser for Finnkino cinemas, made with Flutter."

"inKino - a showtime browser for Finnkino cinemas"

As someone who has never heard of Finnkino, I think the current title is easier to understand for most people.

It is an app exclusively for "Finnkino" cinemas. Most people would interpret "movie app"to be something broader than that.

Mainly "cross platform". Many people would interpret that as [desktop] platforms, e.g. Linux/Windows/Mac OS. Especially if you weren't previously aware of what Flutter is.

Adding a "mobile" in there somewhere would be a significant improvement.

In addition "movie app" is a bit underspecified. Maybe it's for managing movies? Editing them? Playing them?

Especially when both confusions are combined, it can be easy to get the wrong idea of what the submission is.

Yes but "app" is usually what you run on your phone, "application" is what you run on your computer, no?

Back before the popularization of smart phones, it was not that uncommon to use "apps" as an abbreviation for [desktop] applications.

Of course, "apps" is usually used to refer to [mobile] applications today, but it's still used in the other sense.

Ok we can just take "cross platform" out of the title.

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