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Nice-- a beautiful, responsive website. What does the underlying stack look like? Now all that remains is to fill it with content, which may be somewhat diffi

by clickok 11y ago

Nice-- a beautiful, responsive website. What does the underlying stack look like? Now all that remains is to fill it with content, which may be somewhat difficult since contributing users would presumably have to be fairly knowledgable about fashion[1]. Perhaps there's an opportunity to employ machine learning here, or maybe some sort of listing that's available online (or upon request from the showrunners). --- 1. Which leads me to think there might be a market for crowdsourcing tasks to particular demographics-- in this case, underemployed experts on haute couture. Maybe "Artisanal Turk"? Or maybe "hipster.io"?

pmalynin 11y ago
Hey, Right now we're working directly with the Costume Designers for these shows, so it is in a way "Artisanal Turk" except that the people who add content to our site actually worked on these shows. At the moment we're partnered with costume designers for The Mindy Projects, Madmen, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D and many others. Stack is mostly Meteor + React + Semantic UI + TypeScript, with certain custom backend parts.
- clickok 11y ago
  How do you motivate designers to "flesh out" the full wardrobe/back catalogue? If the workflow for adding new clothing sets is as slick as the frontend, I can see how it'd be easy to keep things up to date, but it's something else entirely having to go back through multiple seasons trying to remember which items composed an ensemble. And (not knowing much about the fashion/clothing business) is it reasonably easy to swap out some items for similar looking ones if the original is not available (or too expensive), or do you face a problem where sometimes they just stop manufacturing things and there's no good substitutes?
  - jraines 11y ago
    I work on something similar and from my perspective, the swapping for similar things is the fun part of the problem, and the figuring out what is available is the nasty part, given retailers' diverse and frequently bad ways of revealing that info.

by clickok 11y ago

pmalynin 11y ago

Hey, Right now we're working directly with the Costume Designers for these shows, so it is in a way "Artisanal Turk" except that the people who add content to our site actually worked on these shows. At the moment we're partnered with costume designers for The Mindy Projects, Madmen, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D and many others. Stack is mostly Meteor + React + Semantic UI + TypeScript, with certain custom backend parts.

clickok 11y ago
How do you motivate designers to "flesh out" the full wardrobe/back catalogue? If the workflow for adding new clothing sets is as slick as the frontend, I can see how it'd be easy to keep things up to date, but it's something else entirely having to go back through multiple seasons trying to remember which items composed an ensemble. And (not knowing much about the fashion/clothing business) is it reasonably easy to swap out some items for similar looking ones if the original is not available (or too expensive), or do you face a problem where sometimes they just stop manufacturing things and there's no good substitutes?
- jraines 11y ago
  I work on something similar and from my perspective, the swapping for similar things is the fun part of the problem, and the figuring out what is available is the nasty part, given retailers' diverse and frequently bad ways of revealing that info.