Growing a SaaS App for the Film Industry with Rigorous Experimentation

Re:Growing a SaaS App for the Film Industry with Rigorous Ex... by dvt on Monday March 26, 2018 @06:10PM (#16683103)

Hi, great interview and congrats on your success! My question for you guys is specifically about search-ability of end credits.

Apologies for the self promotion, but I'm working in the same space and built and launched https://www.spoiled.tv last month. I live in LA and know a lot of film people and one of the suggestions I often get is that I should add a feature where people can download/view/search entire film credits. Since you guys are knee-deep in this, do you (a) think this is a good idea and (b) know where I could grab this information freely (barring OCR methods)?

Again, keep up the awesome work!

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Re:Growing a SaaS App for the Film Industry with Rigorous Ex... by sigil on Monday March 26, 2018 @06:24PM (#16683194)

Check out IMDb's data dumps! They're licensed for non-commercial use but they're quite complete. https://www.imdb.com/interfaces/

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Re:Growing a SaaS App for the Film Industry with Rigorous Ex... by dvt on Monday March 26, 2018 @07:29PM (#16683684)

Thanks, unfortunately IMDb's data dumps miss a lot. I used to work at a (VFX) studio, and people would always complain how they didn't make it on IMDb, even though they were in the actual credits.

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Re:Growing a SaaS App for the Film Industry with Rigorous Ex... by sigil on Monday March 26, 2018 @07:41PM (#16683773)

It's possible, albeit onerous, to submit credits for yourself on IMDb. I'd be very interested in a dataset with better completeness. Not aware of any, but we do have some half-baked ideas around this -- feel free to drop me an email.

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Re:Growing a SaaS App for the Film Industry with Rigorous Ex... by dvt on Monday March 26, 2018 @09:07PM (#16684266)

Will do!

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