Re:Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?
by greatatuin on Thursday January 02, 2020 @05:18PM
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This is great, my wife was looking for a site for old movies the other day. At the risk of offending could I suggest working on the design a bit to increase trust and look more established. If I stumbled upon your site I don't know I'd be willing to put my credit card details in with the current look and feel of the site.
No risk of offense. Styles are not my best skill, though I have found people trust more when you throw things like pointless animation at them, which is something I'm specifically avoiding. (Part of the site design guidelines is that my highly autistic niece can use it without freaking out).
But, you don't have to put your CC in. Not until you've established a relationship.
I am always looking to improve the look, however.
I've spent most of the year working on colourisation and recovery techniques. Colourisation is probably 70% of the way, but restoration is as hard as ever.
The project isn't meant to be a unicorn. The tech stack is boring, and probably wouldn't scale.
There's about 50 people on board, and about two or three videos streamed a day - so it isn't remotely "successful" yet, but I set a four year timeline for it.
I don't have any specific stats to offer - because I don't collect it. I collect as little data as I can get away with. Both for personal belief, and economic reasons.
Hard to get massive fines for the inevitable breach when there's no PII to steal.