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Inspiration

Our inspiration for the WatchList comes from the site MyAnimeList (MAL) platform. MyAnimeList is highly regarded for its capacity to enable enthusiasts of anime to create their personal repositories of shows and assign ratings to them. It is a comprehensive platform serving as an extensive database for the anime community, offering users the means to effectively organize their viewing experiences.

The concept of MyAnimeList deeply resonated with our team and led us to envision the potential for a similar framework adapted to the domain of movies and television series.

What it does

WatchList allows for user to create an account, look up their favorite movies, add those movies to their watched list, review and comment, and then add friends and see what they have reviewed and commented.

How we built it

We used ASP.NET and Razor pages to form the pages and allows to easy interactivity between searching through the API and add movies to our sql database.

Challenges we ran into

Starting any project in a language you are unfamiliar with is always a challenge. There were lots of time used for research to learn how to accomplish what we wanted.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The connectivity between our searches, inputs, users, ratings, and comments and our sql database is one of our accomplishments we are most proud of. This ability to submit to database and pull them has been a major struggle that we are proud of how the results look

What we learned

This was a great learning experience as we had to push ourselves to develop in a new coding language.

What's next for WatchList

Features we had thought of having a way to see a list of top movies and an activity feed that allows for the user to see their friends most recent adds. These feature would be something we could comeback to and look to add to further the experience of using WatchList. The ability to send friend request when adding a friend would also be a feature we would look into.

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Tigerhacks 2023

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As a designer, my focus was on WatchList's front-end, where I created a sleek, contemporary interface that resembles the elegance of cinema while serving as an intuitive design. I worked with HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap, developed icons using Adobe Illustrator, and designed a mockup and created graphics using Figma.

Blaise Gozé
I was one of the backend developers. I primarily handled everything with the MySQL database. I made all of the ASP.NET (C#) functions that affected the database or pulled from it.

DeepFriedChumChum Wilkins
Backend development and chill

Aeiou
Nathanael McClure