We just wanted to build a gif-making app for a hackathon.
You could search for and browse movies by clicking on directors, actors and
other staff, download a movie with one click, preview it to select what you
want to clip, and make a gif out of it.
Turns out it was a very convenient interface to discover, download, and view
movies. All we had to do was front-end to TMDb, a torrent search scrapper, and
a layer between the Transmission CLI and the front-end.
We inadvertently built a popcorn-time clone in a day.
You could search for and browse movies by clicking on directors, actors and other staff, download a movie with one click, preview it to select what you want to clip, and make a gif out of it.
Turns out it was a very convenient interface to discover, download, and view movies. All we had to do was front-end to TMDb, a torrent search scrapper, and a layer between the Transmission CLI and the front-end.
We inadvertently built a popcorn-time clone in a day.