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Show HN: Beautiful movie app for movie info, trailers, showtimes

49 points by wushupork 12y ago

wushupork 12y ago
Founder of the app here. Ever since Yahoo Weather came out, it's displaced my default weather app. I really liked it's intuitive and easy to use interface. That's what I was trying to go for here. Hope you guys like it.
- tuananh 12y ago
  Off topic but why is Keanu Reeves's age is 60!?
  - wushupork 12y ago
    You are the second person to point that out. I really should change that but I guess it's in reference to this? http://rs1img.memecdn.com/keanu-reeves-is-immortal_o_676589.jpg http://rs1img.memecdn.com/keanu-reeves-is-immortal_o_676589....
- designml 12y ago
  The app looks great! If you dont mind me asking, whats your dev stack.
  - wushupork 12y ago
    It's 100% native - objective-c. No Swift yet since it's too new and I like to see examples of what's out there and existing codebase. It's mostly a UI for someone else's API so the backend is very lightweight. We use Parse and a caching server, but that's about it.
    - cheriot 12y ago
      Great app. Whose API is it? Your top review says you cover more local theaters than fandango, which was my initial thought.
      - wushupork 12y ago
        Currently scraping for now, but we're going to move away from that.
- darylfritz 12y ago
  Looks beautiful. Which services are you pulling your data from?
  - wushupork 12y ago
    Mostly TMDB but we also pull showtime data from another source. We're looking at augmenting our ratings data from other providers eg Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB
    - allsystemsgo 12y ago
      I didn't think RT's API was being maintained last I looked. I couldn't find any showtimes API. Are you scraping the data?
    - wushupork 12y ago
      We're not pulling RT data yet so I haven't really looked.
choonkeat 12y ago
can this finally be the app that let me surf trailers, click like and send me push notification when the movie is out ?? (or available on itunes or netflix)
- wushupork 12y ago
  You can surf trailers right now - there's a whole trailers section. Notifications are coming in the next version - with the use cases you mentioned (when the movie is out in theaters or available on itunes etc)
- chourobin 12y ago
  By any chance have you come across Trailers (Apple's own movie app) which does exactly what you describe with notifications for your favorite movies. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/itunes-movie-trailers/id471966214?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/itunes-movie-trailers/id4719...
  - wushupork 12y ago
    Of course I have :) I used to use a combination of Trailers, Flixster, IMDB, and Fandango for my movie needs. This is sort of an amalgamation of all that with my twist.
  - choonkeat 12y ago
    oh wow. with their trailer website lacking it, appletv wishlist feature as toothless, i really didn't think they'd bother with it in an app. thanks
payjo 12y ago
@wushupork, the app looks beautiful!
- wushupork 12y ago
  Thanks - hopefully it's also simple and easy to use
pchristensen 12y ago
Instant download once I realized wushupork made it. His apps are great!
- wushupork 12y ago
  Thanks for the vote of confidence Peter. I appreciate it!
davidcgl 12y ago
Can you add a way to get a movie's nearby showtimes directly from its detail page? This is a common use case. I usually use Flixster but this app looks much better.
- wushupork 12y ago
  Hi David, yes - that's a VERY common use case that is in our TODO list
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BigBalli 12y ago
Very cool app, looks good and love how you can get lost in it for hours... Did you design it?
- wushupork 12y ago
  Yes I did most of the design myself. A lot of thought went into "engagement loops" as I call them.
beenpoor 12y ago
Just installed it. Love the UX! How do you plan on monetizing it ?
- wushupork 12y ago
  Monetizing? what's that? Currently nothing super innovative. affiliate and ads

49 points by wushupork 12y ago

Founder of the app here. Ever since Yahoo Weather came out, it's displaced my default weather app. I really liked it's intuitive and easy to use interface. That's what I was trying to go for here. Hope you guys like it.

tuananh 12y ago
Off topic but why is Keanu Reeves's age is 60!?
- wushupork 12y ago
  You are the second person to point that out. I really should change that but I guess it's in reference to this? http://rs1img.memecdn.com/keanu-reeves-is-immortal_o_676589.jpg http://rs1img.memecdn.com/keanu-reeves-is-immortal_o_676589....
designml 12y ago
The app looks great! If you dont mind me asking, whats your dev stack.
- wushupork 12y ago
  It's 100% native - objective-c. No Swift yet since it's too new and I like to see examples of what's out there and existing codebase. It's mostly a UI for someone else's API so the backend is very lightweight. We use Parse and a caching server, but that's about it.
  - cheriot 12y ago
    Great app. Whose API is it? Your top review says you cover more local theaters than fandango, which was my initial thought.
    - wushupork 12y ago
      Currently scraping for now, but we're going to move away from that.
darylfritz 12y ago
Looks beautiful. Which services are you pulling your data from?
- wushupork 12y ago
  Mostly TMDB but we also pull showtime data from another source. We're looking at augmenting our ratings data from other providers eg Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB
  - allsystemsgo 12y ago
    I didn't think RT's API was being maintained last I looked. I couldn't find any showtimes API. Are you scraping the data?
  - wushupork 12y ago
    We're not pulling RT data yet so I haven't really looked.

choonkeat 12y ago

can this finally be the app that let me surf trailers, click like and send me push notification when the movie is out ?? (or available on itunes or netflix)

wushupork 12y ago
You can surf trailers right now - there's a whole trailers section. Notifications are coming in the next version - with the use cases you mentioned (when the movie is out in theaters or available on itunes etc)
chourobin 12y ago
By any chance have you come across Trailers (Apple's own movie app) which does exactly what you describe with notifications for your favorite movies. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/itunes-movie-trailers/id471966214?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/itunes-movie-trailers/id4719...
- wushupork 12y ago
  Of course I have :) I used to use a combination of Trailers, Flixster, IMDB, and Fandango for my movie needs. This is sort of an amalgamation of all that with my twist.
- choonkeat 12y ago
  oh wow. with their trailer website lacking it, appletv wishlist feature as toothless, i really didn't think they'd bother with it in an app. thanks

payjo 12y ago

@wushupork, the app looks beautiful!

wushupork 12y ago
Thanks - hopefully it's also simple and easy to use

pchristensen 12y ago

Instant download once I realized wushupork made it. His apps are great!

wushupork 12y ago
Thanks for the vote of confidence Peter. I appreciate it!

davidcgl 12y ago

Can you add a way to get a movie's nearby showtimes directly from its detail page? This is a common use case. I usually use Flixster but this app looks much better.

wushupork 12y ago
Hi David, yes - that's a VERY common use case that is in our TODO list

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BigBalli 12y ago

Very cool app, looks good and love how you can get lost in it for hours... Did you design it?

wushupork 12y ago
Yes I did most of the design myself. A lot of thought went into "engagement loops" as I call them.

beenpoor 12y ago

Just installed it. Love the UX! How do you plan on monetizing it ?

wushupork 12y ago
Monetizing? what's that? Currently nothing super innovative. affiliate and ads