andrewtorkbaker

Will probably do a blog post / video about my setup at some point. In the meantime, DM me on Twitter and I can share more about what's working for me

On the backlog! My initial data provider only supports the US. I think there are only two 70mm IMAX theaters in BC, right? My advice in the meantime: Chrome + Codex / Claude Code are pretty good at keeping an eye on things for smaller data sets like this

Yes!! I'd say I'm probably already 85-90% of the way there for a service that monitors seatmaps for other 70mm IMAX movies too. And I, too, will want Dune 3 IMAX tickets. Was already considering keeping this going for sure

For the theaters near me, 70mm IMAX showings even a few weeks out still had only crummy seats. Also, I'm impatient and want to see it soon!

+1 to the AMC Metreon being one of the toughest. Of all the theaters I'm monitoring, it's probably in the top 3 of fewest seats opening up. My best guess is that SF is just a market where demand far exceeds supply.

But I am seeing a few every day, and I'm guessing it will get better after opening weekend too. My system checks every 10 mins leading up to 24 hours before showing, then ramps up to every 60 seconds.

Re: Cloudflare - not sure if you're trying to hit AMC's site directly or an alternative. Either way, the first library I reach for in that situation is curl_cffi https://github.com/lexiforest/curl_cffi

On the backlog! The first data provider I integrated with only supports the US.

My advice in the meantime: Codex and Claude Code are much better at correctly reading theater and airline seatmaps than they used to be. If you've got a personal plan / one via your employer, I've had good results just asking them to set a schedule to watch a seatmap directly

Thank you - let me know if you snag some seats!

Hey HN! 150,000 people bought IMAX tickets to see The Odyssey the first day they went on sale. I was not one of them. So I built a site to watch every 70mm IMAX screening in the US and alert me when good seats open up.

More details on Twitter: https://x.com/andrewtorkbaker/status/2078540178713629119

Hi HN! I created Later to solve a problem I've had every day since joining a remote team: I want to keep our conversations in Slack, but don't want to intrude on my coworkers after hours when they're in different time zones.

Later has a few tricks that I continue to enjoy daily:

- Later does the time zone math for you, automatically determining when 9:00 AM is in your recipient's time zone - Later watches for when your recipient comes online and delivers your message early if they go green before 9:00 AM (but you can disable early delivery for a message, too) - Messages are delivered as if you sent them (as opposed to Slack's built-in /remind, which sends messages out of context from Slackbot) - Later works in DMs and group DMs as well as public and private channels - handy for making morning announcements to a distributed team

After months of use with my team, I'm excited to launch Later for anyone to try. I'd love to answer your questions

Hey folks - Twilio's Developer Education team here :wave:

We're super excited to bring TwilioQuest 3 to you today. It's our latest take on the best way to teach developers about APIs.

This forum had great feedback for us when we launched TwilioQuest 2 a year and a half ago. Would love to hear what you think.

And so ZEIT, my favorite serverless provider, keeps getting better. Highlights:

- "sub-second cold boot (full round trip) for most workloads"

- HTTP/2.0 and websocket support

- Tune CPU and memory usage, which means even smoother scaling

And all that for any service you can fit in a Docker container - which is also how you get near-perfect dev/prod parity, an often overlooked issue with other serverless deployment techniques.

On top of all that, ZEIT has one of the best developer experiences out there today. Highly recommend trying it out.

And for the perpetual serverless haters out there: this is not a product for you, FANG developer. I think people underestimate how well serverless fits for the majority of web applications in the world today. Most small-medium businesses would be better off exploring serverless than standing up their own k8s cluster to run effectively one or two websites.

Hey there - I lead Twilio's documentation team. There's nothing worse than frustrating docs, I'm sorry ours are coming up short for you.

I'd love to talk more about it and hear how we can serve you better. And it looks like you work with Django a lot? So do I - maybe I can help if you've got a specific project in mind.

My email is [email protected] - would love to talk more about all of this.