Re:Show HN: Marvel Comics and Characters Search Engine
by neilsharma on Sunday June 21, 2015 @07:17PM
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Cool. I'd like to see ways to order them. There are many volumes of many universes created over the past several decades. Some way to sort them chronologically, or by character incarnation, would be really helpful for people who want to organize their interest
Re:Show HN: Marvel Comics and Characters Search Engine
by builderone on Sunday June 21, 2015 @11:41PM
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Missed your question. Working with Marvel API was not bad. They have really good interface for testing endpoints so they make it easy to create and test objects. Accessing large sets of data where you have hundreds of issues would timeout sometimes, so you just have to rerun it number of times. Its a new API but so far they have done pretty good job. Overall I liked working with Marvel API.
Re:Show HN: Marvel Comics and Characters Search Engine
by xixixao on Sunday June 21, 2015 @05:42AM
(#9752789)
Awesome, UX feedback:
1. Hitting back button should hide the overlay.
2. The left side of the overlay needs to scroll as the screen scrolls, otherwise you're not able to see the picture you hover over in the gallery.
Re:Show HN: Marvel Comics and Characters Search Engine
by builderone on Sunday June 21, 2015 @11:02PM
(#9755946)
Back button fixed on web only, mobile unfortunately has to be this way at least for now. Its technically single page app, so I'm just manipulating hash URL value, that is why back button is not trivial. Good point on the image, I will add it to my todo list.
Re:Show HN: Marvel Comics and Characters Search Engine
by manuisfunny on Sunday June 21, 2015 @11:27AM
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Yeah, the terms & conditions say you can't have "Marvel" in your name:
"You may not create derivatives of Marvel Property, or use the 'Marvel' name or any other Marvel Marks in the title of your App without Marvel's prior written approval."
They might let you if you ask, though. It's not like it's a commercial app.
Re:Show HN: Marvel Comics and Characters Search Engine
by builderone on Sunday June 21, 2015 @01:09PM
(#9754101)
I have reciprocal links going back to marvel.com, there are no ads and I did receive a feedback from an individual on Marvel dev team that he liked the app. So I'm assuming they are cool with it.
Re:Show HN: Marvel Comics and Characters Search Engine
by wyldfire on Sunday June 21, 2015 @01:58PM
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> assuming they are cool with it
That reception is probably not uniform among Marvel, especially since they have to mount an affirmative defense against trademark infringement. But just don't get too popular and it will never matter. ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oddball_(comics)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madcap_(comics)
I'm certain that they exist in the Marvel universe.
1. Hitting back button should hide the overlay. 2. The left side of the overlay needs to scroll as the screen scrolls, otherwise you're not able to see the picture you hover over in the gallery.
http://developer.marvel.com/
They may have a problem with the use of "Marvel" in the domain name though.
"You may not create derivatives of Marvel Property, or use the 'Marvel' name or any other Marvel Marks in the title of your App without Marvel's prior written approval."
They might let you if you ask, though. It's not like it's a commercial app.
I think it's good that you added links back to the Marvel website, and attributed the data to Marvel, following their guidelines: http://developer.marvel.com/documentation/attribution
Some developers overlook the boring API documentation and rules.
That reception is probably not uniform among Marvel, especially since they have to mount an affirmative defense against trademark infringement. But just don't get too popular and it will never matter. ;)
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