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Show HN: Marvel Comics and Characters Search Engine
- tiatia 11y agoHave you talked to a lawyer regarding possible IP Problems?
- nacs 11y agoNot OP but Marvel makes an API available for all this so most of it's likely within bounds: http://developer.marvel.com/ http://developer.marvel.com/ They may have a problem with the use of "Marvel" in the domain name though.
- manuisfunny 11y agoYeah, the terms & conditions say you can't have "Marvel" in your name: "You may not create derivatives of Marvel Property, or use the 'Marvel' name or any other Marvel Marks in the title of your App without Marvel's prior written approval." They might let you if you ask, though. It's not like it's a commercial app. I think it's good that you added links back to the Marvel website, and attributed the data to Marvel, following their guidelines: http://developer.marvel.com/documentation/attribution http://developer.marvel.com/documentation/attribution Some developers overlook the boring API documentation and rules.
- builderone 11y agoI have reciprocal links going back to marvel.com, there are no ads and I did receive a feedback from an individual on Marvel dev team that he liked the app. So I'm assuming they are cool with it.
- wyldfire 11y ago> assuming they are cool with it That reception is probably not uniform among Marvel, especially since they have to mount an affirmative defense against trademark infringement. But just don't get too popular and it will never matter. ;)
- builderone 11y agoI'll try not too :)
- xixixao 11y agoAwesome, UX feedback: 1. Hitting back button should hide the overlay. 2. The left side of the overlay needs to scroll as the screen scrolls, otherwise you're not able to see the picture you hover over in the gallery.
- builderone 11y agoI will fix back button, thank you for checking it out.
- builderone 11y agoBack button fixed on web only, mobile unfortunately has to be this way at least for now. Its technically single page app, so I'm just manipulating hash URL value, that is why back button is not trivial. Good point on the image, I will add it to my todo list.
- sntran 11y agoI have trouble with Chrome's back button and every character I type into the search box.
- builderone 11y agoI will fix browser back button, thank you for your feedback.
- manuisfunny 11y agoCool app, it looks really good. How was it working with the Marvel API? Did you try the comicvine API? http://www.comicvine.com/api/ http://www.comicvine.com/api/
- builderone 11y agoThank you, I appreciate that. I will definitely check out comicvine API.
- builderone 11y agoMissed your question. Working with Marvel API was not bad. They have really good interface for testing endpoints so they make it easy to create and test objects. Accessing large sets of data where you have hundreds of issues would timeout sometimes, so you just have to rerun it number of times. Its a new API but so far they have done pretty good job. Overall I liked working with Marvel API.
- tlholaday 11y agoIt looks like Fin Fang Foom has obliterated the Marvel index for his appearance in the 1974 Astonishing Tales. Acid mist exhalations are `murder` on indices.
- orionblastar 11y agoI did a search of Oddball and Madcap as characters and came up with nothing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oddball_(comics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oddball_(comics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madcap_(comics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madcap_(comics) I'm certain that they exist in the Marvel universe.
- builderone 11y agoThat's interesting, I will take a look if Marvel API has those characters or I can try to import it manually, thank you for your feedback
- neilsharma 11y agoCool. I'd like to see ways to order them. There are many volumes of many universes created over the past several decades. Some way to sort them chronologically, or by character incarnation, would be really helpful for people who want to organize their interest