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Re:Show HN: Movie lines at your fingertips with soundbite se... by bwanab on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @12:47PM (#7711203)
Cool idea. But, I put in "Just when I thought I was out". The quote is from Godfather 3 which it didn't give, but showed me a result from the Sopranos (yes, it's there, too as a spoof of the original), but when I selected that result, it took me to the Simpsons.
Re:Show HN: Movie lines at your fingertips with soundbite se... by michaelq on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @12:55PM (#7711270)
I'll find and add that Godfather 3 quote. It looks like I accidentally referenced the wrong asset for The Sopranos, but the clip plays fine. I'll fix this with the next push. Thanks for spotting this.
Re:Show HN: Movie lines at your fingertips with soundbite se... by filitchp on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @11:56AM (#7710870)
I've had a lot of fun playing around with this. Searching for my favorite movie sound clips is fast and slightly addictive. Lots of Schwarzenegger material, good stuff!
Re:Show HN: Movie lines at your fingertips with soundbite se... by jtownsend99 on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @12:30PM (#7711078)
I've already shared countless clips, this is brilliant!
Re:Show HN: Movie lines at your fingertips with soundbite se... by joshmayhem on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @11:57AM (#7710882)
"You can't handle the truth!" love this app
Re:Show HN: Movie lines at your fingertips with soundbite se... by JayKan24 on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @12:14PM (#7710971)
Great niche tool for some good laugh! Way to go Michael!
Re:Show HN: Movie lines at your fingertips with soundbite se... by ajvb on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @12:15PM (#7710982)
Great idea, and impressively simple interface. Love it.
Re:Show HN: Movie lines at your fingertips with soundbite se... by keithba on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @12:56PM (#7711281)
Neat! How did you build this? What's the stack?
Re:Show HN: Movie lines at your fingertips with soundbite se... by michaelq on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @01:25PM (#7711487)
It's a rails app using high voltage. After trying Elastic Search, I ultimately went with Algolia for the search.
Re:Show HN: Movie lines at your fingertips with soundbite se... by michaelq on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @08:14PM (#7713319)
As for the clips, that was like 90% of the work. I didn't want mediocre results diluting the really good quotes. I was able to scrape some from abandon websites, but I had to capture most of them myself. There are about 22k in total.
Re:Show HN: Movie lines at your fingertips with soundbite se... by draz on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @08:09PM (#7713305)
I think s/he meant: where did you get the transcripts? How did you get the timing info for the vid/audio clips, etc.

Great implementation!

Re:Show HN: Movie lines at your fingertips with soundbite se... by richardjordan on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @12:51PM (#7711236)
Love this. Always looking up movie quotes.
Re:Show HN: Movie lines at your fingertips with soundbite se... by sperling75 on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @12:00PM (#7710896)
love how it plays the clips