Show HN : Flicksery - A Netflix Search Engine (my side project)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4866880

by phenomenon • 14 years ago

11 8 14 years ago

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I built this simple Netflix Search Engine for myself but I think this could be useful to anyone who uses Netflix.

http://www.flicksery.com

Blog post : http://tmblr.co/ZemAIvYPpv2C

Please let me know your feedback.

Thanks

revorad• 14 years ago

Looks pretty awesome! Is this your startup or just a side project? I'd love to hear some details about the backend stack.

phenomenon4• 14 years ago

This is just a side project which I basically did to find better movies in Netflix. I did not like the

This is built on Ruby On Rails and MySql as the database. I use Sunspot Solr for Rails for better text search.

phenomenon4• 14 years ago

Clickable links: Flicksery - http://www.flicksery.com Blog Post - http://tmblr.co/ZemAIvYPpv2C

Ramp_• 14 years ago

Kudos to you for building this.

I actually had a netflix free trial about 6 months ago, but searching for content on offer was awful. I actually didn't take a subscription because I didn't think the collection of movies/tv shows was of high enough quality or large enough, but perhaps I just couldn't find what I was looking for!

phenomenon4• 14 years ago

I too had the same problem, but off and on I did find movies that were really good but were hidden somewhere. The only way I could explore it was by building something of my own. After writing this app I have been able to discover some really awesome stuff on Netflix. Really glad that you liked it. Thanks.

cheae• 14 years ago

Very useful tool. In my opinion filter by (or order by) released date is a useful feature.

phenomenon4• 14 years ago

Thanks cheae !

petervandijck• 14 years ago

A filter to only get big budget movies, not the "Not to be confused with the big budget film" ones, would be awesome :) Filter by Studio as well.

Show HN : Flicksery - A Netflix Search Engine (my side project)

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