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yousuffauzan··on [dead]
WoW! Thanks.

Those are fab ideas. I will come back to you once I implement them. Thanks again.

yousuffauzan··on [dead]
:) Thats a nice piece of advice. I never thought about faking users before (I do have about 4 accounts of my own on the site, but that was due to dev work).

I have created 3 top movie lists (IMDB 250, Palme d'Or winners, Time's ALLTIME 100) to help users get started. I will be adding more soon.

Also, I have lots of content that is not user generated ( around 50k movies). But I think, you are right in saying that user generated (even if fake) will be rather useful.

List of movies recommended by top leaders will be a good thing to add too. I do show top leaders on the home page of logged in users, but I guess it will be better if i can somehow show their movie lists easily too.

I will be glad if you try the app once. Here is a demo account cred: username: demouser@cineight.com password: demouser

yousuffauzan··on [dead]
You can goto http://cineight.com

The facebook app is just this site inside an iframe (I was too lazy to implement something specifically for FB. I too am not on it)

I will look into the sites you mentioned and try to learn what I can. Thanks.

yousuffauzan··on [dead]
Clickable link: http://apps.facebook.com/cineight
yousuffauzan··on [dead]
The "Roll" tab is in fact a news feed. However, since you are noy following anyone yet, there is no news to show. I need another way to make these updates though.

The app is basically a stand alone web app. And Iframe seemed to be the most painless way of integrating it with facebook. It was laziness and not any strategy which led me to decide on Iframe.

yousuffauzan··on [dead]
Just a followup on how you start building your lists. You can visit profile page of users mentioned on the top right. Or you can visit any of the "Lists" present on the header section. You can search for a movie you wish to recommend too.
yousuffauzan··on [dead]
I think I will put some links for users to help them start building their movie lists (Movies watched, Movies you want to watch, and movies which in your opinion are trash).

I guess one way would be to show user say IMDB 250 list or any other such All Time list.

Plus the thing you said about getting viral. I will need to come up with a way to do that. Sharing list is definitely one of them. I also integrated FB Like for all movies which may help in spreading the word.

yousuffauzan··on [dead]
Thanks for that advice. I have been debating over a similar feature for a while. I will try to build it ASAP and intimate you about it.
yousuffauzan··on [dead]
Thats the million dollar question. How to know if the app has breached that level of usefulness where user will want to come back? Hence the urge to blindly add more and more features.

If you are a movie buff, would you come back to the app?

yousuffauzan··on [dead]
Clickable link: http://apps.facebook.com/cineight
yousuffauzan··on [dead]
Clickable link http://apps.facebook.com/cineight
yousuffauzan··on Ask HN: your biggest Aha moment as a hacker?
Apart from every page in Cormen's Algo book (which I will ignore because of the share number of those), my biggest AHA moment was about 3 years back when I realized that I can say "return a,b,c" to return 3 variables in python. Till then I had been only using C++ and could not fathom that a programming language can be painless.
yousuffauzan··on Offer HN: free design work.
http://cineight.com

App is working fine. Need help in making it look good

yousuffauzan··on Ask HN: HN Spreadsheets
Added it to the lists
yousuffauzan··on Ask HN: HN Spreadsheets
If this spreadsheet management is really something that people need, then I wont mind making an app for that. However. I think all of us should contribute in deciding the features needed.
yousuffauzan··on Ask HN: HN Spreadsheets
Good One! I thought of various solutions. First I thought of making a spreadsheet app and importing all the sheets onto my app. Thus I would be able to help users maintain their spreadsheets. But sense prevailed and I didnt waste my efforts there. Though I still think it will be a good exercise for me, even if no one ends up using it.
yousuffauzan··on Ask HN: HN Spreadsheets
Damn! I do not have a facebook account. I will create one and get your list and merge it with mine.
yousuffauzan··on programming challenge
As my first erlang program, I tried to solve this problem. The code is very ugly, and rather long for my taste, but it solves the thing in 917 steps. I also took the case where if no output has been gotten in a particular timestep, then do not consider any jars.
yousuffauzan··on programming challenge
Another solution for white=35.

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yousuffauzan··on programming challenge
Under 1 sec is amazing. When you say brute force, do you mean that for the first step (TS 1), you took all the three routes available, [0,0], [1,0], [2,0] for jar 1 and 2. Cause that just makes the number of branches too many to be solved in a reasonable amount of time. I would love to have a peek at you code.
yousuffauzan··on Ask HN: Can I get some suggestions on web languages?
Python would be fun as well as easy.
yousuffauzan··on Ask HN: Please review my webapp http://cineight.com
:) Thanks for pointing that out.
yousuffauzan··on Ask HN: Please review my webapp http://cineight.com
Ok. I will implement that then. Today
yousuffauzan··on Ask HN: Please review my webapp http://cineight.com
I will change the titles of each tab. Just need to come up with better names. Facebook/Twitter integration is on the card. I am still thinking about their possible use. Thanks zoudini.
yousuffauzan··on Ask HN: Please review my webapp http://cineight.com
I have added some more info to the landing page, plus I plan to add screenshots etc to help the user understand what the app is about. However, I wish to keep it plain and simple. That is till I start getting more complaints.
yousuffauzan··on Ask HN: Please review my webapp http://cineight.com
Yes. It wasn't in my original plan, but as this thing shaped up, I realize it must be added. So, just wait for a small while, and I will surely add better user discovery. Of course, any and all suggestions will be much appreciated
yousuffauzan··on Ask HN: Please review my webapp http://cineight.com
I have added some more info. No screenshots yet though. Maybe I will add it later.

Thanks a lot

yousuffauzan··on Ask HN: Please review my webapp http://cineight.com
Fixed. Thanks for pointing that out.
yousuffauzan··on Ask HN: Please review my webapp http://cineight.com
I have added a demo account now. Visit cineight.com again. You will find the credentials of demo user there.

Thanks for pointing that out.

yousuffauzan··on Ask HN: Please review my webapp http://cineight.com
Awesome! I made this app cause I always feel a need of knowing which movie to watch next. So instead of asking my friends every time I meet them about the movies they have recently watched, I thought this would be a better idea.

One of the things that I realized was that I value recommendations of only a small group of people. Someone may have liked a movie that I also do, but that does not mean I can trust their recos. Hence, a model which lets me actively add people to my list of recommenders.

I would certainly keep improving the app and integrate it with other useful services.

Thanks a lot for the feedback. I appreciate it.

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