Show HN : Flicksery - A Netflix Search Engine (my side project)
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Flicksery - http://www.flicksery.com
Blog Post - http://tmblr.co/ZemAIvYPpv2C
A filter to only get big budget movies, not the "Not to be confused with the big budget film" ones, would be awesome :) Filter by Studio as well.
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 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.
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.
This is built on Ruby On Rails and MySql as the database. I use Sunspot Solr for Rails for better text search.
Very useful tool. In my opinion filter by (or order by) released date is a useful feature.
Thanks cheae !
http://www.flicksery.com
Blog post : http://tmblr.co/ZemAIvYPpv2C
Please let me know your feedback.
Thanks