My first django website

Consumer and social

movie discovery

SHOW HN2013

6points
14comments
#1,549of 1,739 in 2013
Top 90%of 2013 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

3 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score +0.12.

Idea: 3 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 against

The thread, comment by comment

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

Objections

  • Movie information like descriptions and ratings is missing

    From 2 comments
    • Great idea! Just a few things: The time is displayed in seconds, that should be changed. It would be great if the actual movie information was displayed. Others have mentioned…
      randomchars on HN
    • Whoa, it's pretty neat! I may have a suggestion to improve it: as gingersnap suggests, would it be possible to get a quick description of the movie from imdb and add a…
      S4M on HN
  • Category voting button did not work

    From 1 comment
    • > Vote for this category The button doesn't work, does it? My Browser: Chromium 25.0.1364.97 (Developer Build 183676)
      gotoY on HN
  • Site may be down, links to a domain provider page

    From 1 comment
    • did you take the site down? It takes me to some domain provider site. I'm currently learning django and would like to know how you went about learning it. thanks.
      doubleO on HN

Requests

  • Add IMDB or TMDB movie data and categories

    From 3 comments
    • Great idea! Just a few things: The time is displayed in seconds, that should be changed. It would be great if the actual movie information was displayed. Others have mentioned…
      randomchars on HN
    • Whoa, it's pretty neat! I may have a suggestion to improve it: as gingersnap suggests, would it be possible to get a quick description of the movie from imdb and add a…
      S4M on HN
    • Great work, have actually been missing a service like this. One suggestion, why don't you match it to IMDB and get automatic categories and rating. This would help when trying to…
      gingersnap on HN
  • Support other video sharing sites

    From 1 comment
    • Great idea! Just a few things: The time is displayed in seconds, that should be changed. It would be great if the actual movie information was displayed. Others have mentioned…
      randomchars on HN
  • Show time in minutes rather than seconds

    From 1 comment
    • Great idea! Just a few things: The time is displayed in seconds, that should be changed. It would be great if the actual movie information was displayed. Others have mentioned…
      randomchars on HN

Questions

  • How the YouTube search finds long videos

    From 1 comment
    • Very nice. I'm curious as to how you're searching YouTube, if you are. Is there a method to specify a long time besides the 'long' param or are you mainly scraping the links from…
      justhw on HN
  • How the maker learned Django

    From 1 comment
    • did you take the site down? It takes me to some domain provider site. I'm currently learning django and would like to know how you went about learning it. thanks.
      doubleO on HN

Alternatives named

  • IMDB

    From 1 comment
    • Great work, have actually been missing a service like this. One suggestion, why don't you match it to IMDB and get automatic categories and rating. This would help when trying to…
      gingersnap on HN
  • The Movie Database (TMDB)

    From 1 comment
    • Great idea! Just a few things: The time is displayed in seconds, that should be changed. It would be great if the actual movie information was displayed. Others have mentioned…
      randomchars on HN
  • Rotten Tomatoes

    From 1 comment
    • Great idea! Just a few things: The time is displayed in seconds, that should be changed. It would be great if the actual movie information was displayed. Others have mentioned…
      randomchars on HN

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