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I used Firebase to build thereelbox.com, and enjoyed it thoroughly. It took 2-3 hours from starting into the documentation to completed/nobugs/pushed to product
by pkrein 15y ago
I used Firebase to build thereelbox.com, and enjoyed it thoroughly. It took 2-3 hours from starting into the documentation to completed/nobugs/pushed to production. Credit for that speed goes entirely to Firebase.
TheReelBox uses Firebase as a sort of API caching layer. This protects against rate limiting on the Rotten Tomatoes API, decreases request time by caching queries to the Fandango-via-YQL API, and eliminates an extra request per movie for Youtube trailers.
At the beginning, this system made it possible to host TheReelBox on my public dropbox folder, which made for really fast development. Since launch I've moved the static html and js to a micro AWS instance, but Firebase cleanly and transparently handles all the data.
Definitely recommend it.
- knewter 15y agoAny reason you don't host those static files on a public 'web enabled' ec2 bucket? We do that for http://www.incubatebang.com http://www.incubatebang.com and it costs us like $1.40/year for hosting
- pkrein 15y agoThat's a cool idea, Dropbox and S3 both seem like good ways to get started with Firebase really fast. The AWS micro is free :) and it gives me a bit more flexibility to do things (in the future) like track outbound clicks to Fandango through a redirect that hits a real server.
- chrishaum 15y agoI love the design of your site! Did you have it done in-house?
- knewter 15y agoYeah, I'm an owner of http://www.isotope11.com http://www.isotope11.com and our designer threw it together in a couple of days. He's awesome, and he's leaving shortly, and we'll miss him :(
- readme 15y agoHey, I like your app! I would use it again if I could expand the map to make it larger. Would be the perfect tool for finding a movie.
- SpiderX 15y agoNice. The Hunger Games is a rickroll? Is that something you did?
- cwb71 15y agoHaha; see nigma's earlier comment about the open admin panel.
- SpiderX 15y agoNice. The Hunger Games is a rickroll? Is that something you did?
- lurchpop 15y agodude. your site is dope!
- vvnraman 15y agoWow !! As a movie buff myself I think I'll be vising you site almost everyday now. This is what I used to do before: - Go to www.imdb.com - Click on 'See more movie showtimes' at the right. - On the next page, click on the 'Favorites' tab to choose a theater. - Go to maps.google.com and plan the route to the theater. This is definitely going to save me at least a few hours every week while I check which movie is playing at what location. And its got TRAILERS too !!! I'm addicted !!
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- nigma 15y agoJust out of curiosity. Are you aware that all your data is fully editable through the admin panel? Or is it just a toy project and it doesn't really matter?
- pkrein 15y agoyes, side project. my real focus is http://segment.io http://segment.io
- davej 15y agoStill though, somebody could delete all the movies and showtimes in a couple of clicks. I presume you have the JSON backed up but it's still going to get annoying if somebody decides they want to be a dick.
- pkrein 15y agotrue [backs up data]. the system will also auto-recover by falling back to the RT/YT/YQL APIs if someone does that, though pages will load significantly slower and Rotten Tomatoes will throw a bunch of rate-limiting errors until Firebase is repopulated.
- tlrobinson 15y agoI'll be honest, it's kind of fun to go to [REDACTED URL] and delete the list of movies and watch them repopulate as people load the site... Sorry, I'll stop. Seriously though, this is a neat toy/prototyping platform, but they desperately need to add some security for it to be really useful.
- dasrecht 15y agoThis was also a concern after browsing trough the tutorial. how do we secure the data if it's available to everyone ;)
- ebiester 15y agoJust a quick thing - for places that aren't so densely populated (like Tucson) it says there's no information. It'd be nice if you would expand your search a bit outside densely populated areas.
- o1iver 15y agoReally nice site! I love the UI. But please make it available for other countries too (me: Switzerland!)!
- shurane 15y agoThat's quite useful! I hope you're making money from it.
- shurane 15y agoThat's quite useful! I hope you're making money from it.
- dclowd9901 15y agoYour app actually reminds me of a movie version of my app. Kudos! Might I recommend incorporating some sort of mechanism to help people figure out a movie to watch?
- endtime 15y agoFYI, hangs on buttering popcorn in Opera.
- mase 15y agoAwesome dude. Great idea and execution for 3 hrs of work! Minor suggestions: - Sort by (name, start time, rating, distance) - include video playback controls, useful info such as time of preview, buffering, etc.. - X out or remove videos from my personal view, this would be KILLER to allow me to narrow down my choices as I watch videos