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Existing movie aggregators are a pain to navigate the filled with ads. I like the Rotten Tomatoes integration. Nice work.",[67,75,79,86,90],{"value":68,"source":69,"evidence":70},"Backbone.js","commenter",[71],{"id":72,"by":73,"text":74},"3715746","itstriz","From a quick glance over the code, it looks like the meat is in his showtimes javascript file(http:\u002F\u002Fdl.dropbox.com\u002Fu\u002F682022\u002Fshowtimes\u002Fjavascript\u002Fshowtimes.js) I'm not very…",{"value":76,"source":69,"evidence":77},"Google Maps",[78],{"id":72,"by":73,"text":74},{"value":80,"source":69,"evidence":81},"Firebase",[82],{"id":83,"by":84,"text":85},"3714883","artursapek","Something to do with gamma.firebase.com and firebase.js isn't loading. I kept it going for two minutes and it kept buttering the popcorn. Maybe HN shot over your daily API quota?",{"value":87,"source":69,"evidence":88},"Yahoo YQL movie times",[89],{"id":72,"by":73,"text":74},{"value":91,"source":69,"evidence":92},"Rotten Tomatoes API",[93],{"id":72,"by":73,"text":74},"unknown","beta",{"praise":97,"objections":118,"requests":184,"questions":228,"alternatives":242},[98,110],{"value":99,"source":69,"evidence":100},"Simple, clean UI that is easy to understand",[101,105,109],{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},"3716034","geuis","Definitely think you're on to something here. Contrary to other commenters, I actually like that you're taking advantage of the geo location api. You should include an option for…",{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"3715384","breakall","The UI is very cool! The Google Maps window loads very quickly when hovering over various show times. I immediately understood how this app could be useful. I also like the big…",{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},{"value":111,"source":69,"evidence":112},"Solves a real problem of navigating ad-filled movie listings",[113,114],{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},{"id":115,"by":116,"text":117},"3715696","chrismanfrank","I love it. I go the movies all the time. I wish you had a way for me to put my email address in so I could get an email every Friday to remind me this site exists. Cool idea and…",[119,139,151,162,169],{"value":120,"source":69,"evidence":121},"Automatic location detection is often wrong; no way to enter an address or zip",[122,123,127,131,135],{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},{"id":124,"by":125,"text":126},"3715878","dlf","I like it, but it has my location wrong by about 50 miles. There absolutely needs to be a way to enter the local address.",{"id":128,"by":129,"text":130},"3715889","true_religion","What it thinks is my location is not my actual location. You should give me an option to enter an address.",{"id":132,"by":133,"text":134},"3715597","vlucas","Good site idea, but my location is totally wrong and I don't see a way to manually enter it so it is more accurate.",{"id":136,"by":137,"text":138},"3715028","simpsond","Well done! This fits the bill perfectly for me. The only problem I see is requiring location access. It miscalculated my location.",{"value":140,"source":69,"evidence":141},"Fails to load or stalls on spinning popcorn",[142,146,147],{"id":143,"by":144,"text":145},"3714591","dzlobin","Unfortunately, it doesn't load past the spinning popcorn for me, and I see some failed GET requests in the network log.",{"id":83,"by":84,"text":85},{"id":148,"by":149,"text":150},"3715098","invalidOrTaken","Took forever loading on Android---I'm surprised how much that matters to me; I just got a smartphone for Christmas and I'm already spoiled.",{"value":152,"source":69,"evidence":153},"Location permission prompt is confusing and asks for permanent access",[154,158],{"id":155,"by":156,"text":157},"3714819","Sephr","Please don't try to guess where the location permission chrome will be. Also, your site is completely useless if I don't want to give you permanent permission to access my…",{"id":159,"by":160,"text":161},"3715289","krelian","Also, it says \"dl.dropbox.com\" wants to track your physical location, this doesn't match the site's domain name.",{"value":163,"source":69,"evidence":164},"Showtimes only show midday, not later tonight",[165],{"id":166,"by":167,"text":168},"3714746","aamar","Lots of neat stuff here. \"Event listings\"--movies, music, etc.-- can still improve a lot in terms of ease of use, so I'm very happy to see people work in this area. A few…",{"value":170,"source":69,"evidence":171},"Finds no movies nearby despite theaters being close",[172,176,180],{"id":173,"by":174,"text":175},"3714795","jlgosse","\"We couldn't find any movies nearby.\" Now, I am sad.",{"id":177,"by":178,"text":179},"3715643","tnorthcutt","Same here. There are two theaters within 5 miles but it found nothing.",{"id":181,"by":182,"text":183},"3715074","PonyGumbo","Didn't work in Firefox even after allowing (the suggestion to \"Allow\" lined up in Chrome, though). Loaded the site in Chrome, and no movies were found in my area despite being…",[185,198,206,210,221],{"value":186,"source":69,"evidence":187},"Let users enter a zip code or address manually",[188,189,193,194],{"id":155,"by":156,"text":157},{"id":190,"by":191,"text":192},"3714626","switz","Let me put in my zip code. There's no reason why I should _have_ to share my location through the browser.",{"id":128,"by":129,"text":130},{"id":195,"by":196,"text":197},"3715713","chadillac","sorting: \"closest\" \"rating\" filtering: \"start times\" \"location\" (don't assume geo-log, let me enter zip) neat idea, needs a lot of polish.",{"value":199,"source":69,"evidence":200},"Show later showtimes and tomorrow's listings",[201,202],{"id":166,"by":167,"text":168},{"id":203,"by":204,"text":205},"3715484","gee_totes","My user story: I got excited that Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was still playing, but didn't want to see it tonight because I have other plans. I clicked on the link to buy tickets,…",{"value":207,"source":69,"evidence":208},"Support movies outside the US",[209],{"id":56,"by":57,"text":58},{"value":211,"source":69,"evidence":212},"Let users pick preferred theaters",[213,217],{"id":214,"by":215,"text":216},"3714604","jkkramer","Nice. Slow to load, but worked. I wish I could specify preferred theaters. In my area, there are many theaters nearby, and the closest isn't the best.",{"id":218,"by":219,"text":220},"3714961","smackfu","Just needs a way to mark a theater as terrible and that I would never go there.",{"value":222,"source":69,"evidence":223},"Fix Rotten Tomatoes rating display",[224],{"id":225,"by":226,"text":227},"3715004","_sentient","This is a pretty neat idea. One thing I'd consider changing is your use of the Rotten Tomatoes rating icons. You're using the Tomatometer Critics icons, but the % score you're…",[229,235],{"value":230,"source":69,"evidence":231},"Where does the movie times data come from?",[232],{"id":233,"by":73,"text":234},"3715006","Where are you pulling the movie times data from? I've been trying to make a local application but couldn't find an API anywhere, it came down to web scraping, which isn't very…",{"value":236,"source":69,"evidence":237},"Why do people object to sharing location in the browser?",[238],{"id":239,"by":240,"text":241},"3715676","sskates","I'm curious, but why are so many people against sharing their location through the browser? You already give up your OS, browser version, and IP address (which can give a rough…",[243,250,257],{"value":244,"source":69,"evidence":245},"Google, Yahoo movie listings and Rotten Tomatoes",[246],{"id":247,"by":248,"text":249},"3715234","Timothee","I'm curious about that as well. I know of two companies that sell movie theater schedule datasets (through data dump or API): Tribune Media Services…",{"value":251,"source":69,"evidence":252},"Apple trailers",[253],{"id":254,"by":255,"text":256},"3715228","Arelius","Can you hook into another movie trailer service? Perhaps Apple trailers? I imagine that since trailers are Ads, there might be a service that provides some sort of affiliate…",{"value":258,"source":69,"evidence":259},"IMDb",[260],{"id":261,"by":262,"text":263},"3715131","revorad","Imdb",{"comments":265,"answered":44,"key":266},10,[267,270,273],{"id":268,"text":269},"3715109","good idea, will add it soon. thanks!",{"id":271,"text":272},"3715616","good point, removed the arrow for now.",{"id":274,"text":275},"3727420","thanks for pointing this out - you can enter your zipcode now :)",{"commenters":277,"max_depth":278,"maker_replies":265,"first_comment_mins":279,"lifespan_hours":280},46,4,14,80,[282,284,286,288,289,290,292,295,298,301,302,303,305,308,310,313,314,316,320,323,326,329,330,331,332,334,336,339,341,342,346,348,351,352,354,355,360,364,368,371,373,375,379,381,383,387,391,393,395,398,400,403,406,408,411,413,418,420,421],[155,40,37,283,156,40],"project\u002Fcritical\u002Fdesign",[268,40,40,285,11,37],"project\u002Fneutral\u002Fdesign",[287,40,37,283,255,40],"3715219",[271,40,40,285,11,37],[159,40,37,283,160,40],[239,40,40,291,240,40],"commenter\u002Fneutral\u002Fprivacy",[293,40,40,291,294,40],"3716231","ctdonath",[296,40,40,291,297,40],"3716475","dinkumthinkum",[299,40,40,291,300,40],"3717175","barefoot",[274,40,40,285,11,37],[190,37,30,285,191,40],[304,37,40,285,11,37],"3714727",[306,37,37,283,307,40],"3714842","essayist",[166,44,30,309,167,40],"project\u002Fmixed\u002Fnone",[311,44,40,312,11,37],"3714762","project\u002Fneutral\u002Fnone",[254,44,30,312,255,40],[106,30,30,315,107,40],"project\u002Fmixed\u002Fdesign",[317,278,37,318,319,40],"3714865","project\u002Fcritical\u002Fexecution","mshafrir",[321,278,40,322,11,37],"3715150","project\u002Fneutral\u002Fexecution",[324,278,30,322,325,40],"3715892","catch23",[327,278,37,318,328,40],"3715432","serdary",[173,48,37,318,174,40],[177,48,37,318,178,40],[225,32,37,318,226,40],[333,32,40,322,11,37],"3715105",[102,38,48,335,103,40],"project\u002Fpositive\u002Fdesign",[233,337,30,338,73,40],8,"project\u002Fneutral\u002Fdocs",[247,337,40,340,248,40],"commenter\u002Fneutral\u002Fnone",[72,337,30,322,73,40],[343,31,30,344,345,40],"3715398","project\u002Fneutral\u002Fprivacy","alanfang",[83,265,37,347,84,40],"project\u002Fcritical\u002Fperformance",[63,349,48,350,64,40],11,"project\u002Fpositive\u002Fidea",[124,41,37,318,125,40],[203,353,37,318,204,40],13,[132,279,37,318,133,40],[356,357,30,358,359,40],"3716088",15,"project\u002Fmixed\u002Fidea","tedmiston",[361,362,37,283,363,40],"3714651",16,"ax",[365,366,37,283,367,40],"3715133",17,"stef25",[369,18,37,318,370,40],"3714935","Pewpewarrows",[372,18,40,312,11,37],"3714953",[374,18,40,340,370,40],"3714958",[376,18,37,377,378,40],"3715035","project\u002Fcritical\u002Fprivacy","nollidge",[181,380,37,318,182,40],19,[115,382,48,350,116,40],20,[384,385,37,377,386,40],"3716265",21,"glodba",[388,389,37,318,390,40],"3715018",22,"guynamedloren",[148,392,37,347,149,40],23,[136,33,30,394,137,40],"project\u002Fmixed\u002Fexecution",[214,396,30,397,215,40],25,"project\u002Fmixed\u002Fperformance",[143,399,37,347,144,40],26,[401,399,40,402,11,37],"3714744","project\u002Fneutral\u002Fperformance",[404,405,37,283,378,40],"3715063",27,[128,407,37,318,129,40],28,[218,409,30,410,219,40],29,"project\u002Fneutral\u002Fidea",[195,412,30,315,196,40],30,[414,415,40,416,417,40],"3715120",31,"other\u002Fneutral\u002Fnone","tomjen3",[56,419,30,410,57,40],32,[60,419,40,312,11,37],[261,419,30,312,262,40],[],[424,429,434,439,443,448],{"id":425,"name":426,"points":427,"category":428},"3724796","Pinwords",146,"creative",{"id":430,"name":431,"points":432,"category":433},"3732677","WireOver",120,"productivity",{"id":435,"name":436,"points":437,"category":438},"3728360","Ham",87,"dev_tools",{"id":440,"name":441,"points":442,"category":20},"3720178","Rabblr",72,{"id":444,"name":445,"points":446,"category":447},"3734416","similarityapi.appspot.com",54,"data",{"id":449,"name":450,"points":451,"category":433},"3720205","My weekend project",52,false,"v2",{"id":455,"name":5,"line":6,"ai":452,"cat":20,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rec":27,"s":456,"top":18,"kw":457,"maker":11,"domain":10,"tier":19,"attempts":40,"strip":458,"url":9,"mix":459,"praise":99,"objection":120,"sub":21},3714509,-0.45,[21,24,25,26],"1011000313331311153333113110131131013333",[30,31,32,33],1793990879632]