Inspiration
I was inspired by the popular MyAnimeList website which allows you to track and manage the Anime tv shows and movies you're currently watching very elegantly. I really loved this website but could not find anything similar for regular tv shows and movies.
What it does
It allows you to track and manage the shows and movies you have watched, plan to watch and are currently watching.
How we built it
We build it with React as our frontend and Express as our backend. We're using postgresSQL for our database and are hosting our project on a Microsoft Azure server.
Challenges we ran into
The biggest challenge we ran into was the time constraint. 36 hours - sleep made it very difficult to produce a project to our expected level of quality.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
What we learned
The importance of time management and the difficulty of scaling a website. (for example running into api rate limiting which resulted in us needing to cache data in our database)
What's next for ShowTracker.me
Hopefully a fully polished website that will be used by the masses. Eventually we want to also create a phone app as well. I also feel that eventually once we polish the website and create a phone there is a possibility of monetizing this app as this is definitely a market that hasn't been capitalized on properly. (I know imdb works similarly however it lacks proper tracking of shows in the way MyAnimeList does)
Built With
- azure
- express.js
- javascript
- postgressql
- react
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