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Good points. I think you overestimate first mover advantage here. It's not that people are already solving all these problems, it's that the solution he's come up with is not unique or compelling or distinct from those services in anyway. It's just a kitchen sink.

Whoah! You're charging $348 dollars a year and you don't even have a professional video done yet? You are already expensive and this is an MVP!

Also you have some 15 minute onboarding process. 15 minutes is like 150 years in web time. What kind of freelancer has the time for that.

im not sure who your target is. Freelancers could mean almost anything. You're not going to attract the hacker crowd but that should be obvious to you. Hackers already know how do all this and they aren't going to pay you $348/year for stuff they can do easily on their own.

Lost faith in the crowd here after reading these comments, against web scraping. Isn't this HACKERnews!? This is the same witch hunt mentality that ultimately lead to the prosecution of Aaron Swartz and look how that turned out.

The anti-scrapers: You should all be ashamed of yourselves. Where's that spirit of innovation and naughty-ness that PG always talks about in his posts?

Says who? Them? Right.

If the info is on the web it's available to be consumed by humans or robots in a polite manner.

Data wants to be free.

Them trying to enforce their terms is another matter. Maybe it would hold up in court. Stupider things have. I mean they should start telling us how to breathe air next. Because ya know if it's in your terms then it must be legally binding.

Thank you. Well said. I'm not sure why you're getting down voted.

People think that lawyers and terms can control all aspects of life. It's beyond ridiculous that a TOS that most college graduates couldn't understand is legally binding for every word in the contract. I mean shit you can put just about anything in your terms and who knows there might be a lawyer good enough and a judge stupid enough to enforce it.

It's only ok if you're a big corporation like google. Indie devs have to go play in our little sandbox and be careful not to piss of the big boys.

The law is often wrong and written by the more fortunate in society.

The data is publicly available. The reasons this should not be an issue are self evident.

Google scrapes trillions of sites every second of every day. Where's the outrage in that sir? Or the legalities. Oh right the law doesn't apply to them. Just small indie devs.

I don't hide behind legal speak and lawyers. I stand behind the truth of the matter. I'd say any legal argument against non-malicious scraping is dead wrong on moral and ethical grounds. Lawyers and powerful corporations will always try to stamp out the little guy to protect their precious trademark or data because their intellects are too dull and mediocre to compete with new entrants or innovations, so they call and cry about it to their lawyer instead. It's easier.

Good for you. I completely agree with your sentiment re: scraping. It's ok if Google or another big company does it but god help you if you do as an indie dev. Thank you for sharing this. I commend you.

I've scraped millions of records from all kinds of companies big and small, politely of course, and I will definitely continue to do so at my discretion for ideas. In your case I would've scraped southwest without hesitation.

I'd make sure to distance yourself from the trademark as much as possible. Maybe even remove "sw" from the domain name but otherwise I don't see how they have a case.

TOS trying to enforce anti-scraping measures is a joke and makes a mockery of the judicial system.

I'm not saying it isn't a legitimate problem but I've never had it.

For me, if we're not using git I could get the other dev's latest changes by simply doing a file copy of whatever I needed and then get it into my own environment. I work offline with most of my dev mates. We are rarely ever coding at the same time of day given time zone differences and sleeping patterns.

If we're a small team we're probably quite aware of where the other one is in the code and what they're working on. I don't need real time for that.

I think being able to see the other dev type in real time in the same file doesn't solve anything for me and may in fact be distracting and counter productive. I'm not sure 'real time' fits here.

I can appreciate your efforts here. It isn't trivial to put something like this together but I'm going to go ahead and state the obvious: Face to face is far superior to a solution such as this one for what I think are self evident reasons. You're better off, by orders of magnitude, getting on a plane or train and going to see your code buddies.

When I'm coding with someone we're not usually on the same files or piece of code anyway. And I don't get any value from seeing them type away at the code file that they are focused in, or knowing which file they're in beyond the name. It's a simple "hey mate what line are you on?" question.

I get excellent value from talking to and seeing the other devs face to face figuring out where their head's at and what 'page' they're on. That's the stuff of a proper realtime and face to face code sesh IMHO.

This is still private beta. Version 1 made the front page of reddit a couple of years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/3s1g8z/we_created_a...

You can check out: http://lazyday.tv/channel/curated/new-releases/ for new releases.

I built this because I wanted a better way to browse through movie and tv content. Click on Settings and check auto-play for a more interactive experience.

Any feedback greatly appreciated.

If we can't figure out an engineering solution to this problem then it's game over. It always amazes me how much people and governments focus on prevention when it comes to climate change, knowing full well it's far too late to change anything by reducing carbon emissions. If we can't sequester these 'surplus' gases from the atmosphere then I guess you could say we don't have a chance in hell, pun intended, of surviving as a species if runaway warming becomes a reality.

I never understood why so many devs flocked to AWS. I actually find their abstraction of services gets in the way and slows down my dev instead of making it easier like so many devs claim it does. I prefer Linode.

VR is the future but still distant IMHO when the headsets are this big. As it turns out it's not that comfortable wearing a screen on your face.

This looks more like lipstick on a pig than the future of VR.

I'm glad this is the top comment. I was in China recently and was amazed by how functional and well developed the WeChat app is.

I'm happy the Chinese government blocked Facebook, if only because it gave my intellect pause to think about what happens when Facebook isn't allowed to use its network effect to its advantage to snuff out any other fledgling social network that would challenge it. Maybe we should take a second look at network effect and the unfair monopolistic power it provides to companies like Facebook who don't really have to innovate because of their global dominance and established network effect.

It doesn't. You'd have to scrape a site that had that data or check to see if they have an API. I believe there are sites that do this but as it wasn't core functionality of the MVP anyway we didn't focus on it too much.

Because signup isn't fully working yet. There's still a lot of bugs we hadn't worked out in the signup flow. SSL will be up when we get it working.

It's all over the web and there are free databases like TMDB around that provide good API access

Sorry missed your question about the stack. It's Django/jquery/postgres

Thank you, some good ideas there. I wanted to be careful not to upset the Hollywood elite since I live here ;) and they are a litigious bunch. But with some further development I could make torrent streaming a possibility and/or consider other possibilities to enable people to use it like that. i.e. with 1channel/soundcloud/tomahawk assuming it's easy enough to get to that data and would definitely be interesting to experiment with.

Completely agree about crowd sourced meta data.

Movies in Tops page are based on what people are most interested in, which is a sobering thought. When first loaded the channel selection is random. But there are definitely some depressing/dark tags in the db.

Used optipng to optimize it by 20%. I'll see if I can get down further without compromising on image quality.

Sorry about that. I used optipng to downsize it by 20%. Hope that helps a little. Thanks for the tip. I'll probably downsize it a bit more.

I would add that these were selected based on what people were most interested in.

Yeah we need to work on the Tops page algorithms a bit. Thanks for the feedback and checking out the site.

Yeah I've seen this site. Difference is I'm focusing on helping the user make a decision, not find out what streaming service a movie is on. The whole time I was building this I kept asking myself one and only one question: What do I want to watch right now? Not that you were saying we're solving the same problem. I though I'd take the opportunity to point out the difference however, as there are a ton of movie rec sites out there. Thanks for checking it out.

Thank you. We have considered open sourcing but we need to clean some things up on the backend before doing so. Also we have some 3rd party tools that are not free that are part of the core functionality. So open sourcing might not make sense but I would like to make the platform available to users who want to catalogue their own collections. Thanks for your comment

Hmmm.. What kind of comp? It's running fine on my little $200 chromebook

Had some ideas in this direction but since this was a passion project being funded out of pocket I could not see those ideas through. Would still love to, hence posting to HN here. Thanks for the feedback.

Would love to monetize at some point but for now I guess you could say I'm giving back to the community ;)

Thank you! It is up to you at the moment but most of them are available to rent on youtube. I have no affiliate or advertising in place. Pure passion project I funded out of pocket. Hope to monetize at some point. Originally I made it to help me find things on Netflix, but Netflix is scary - legally speaking.