It's Movie Night

A web app designed for indecisive groups to choose what to watch for Movie Night. Create rooms, vote on genres, and find best matches based on how many people want which category!

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Inspiration

First, we thought we'd solve a problem. Then we thought, what bugs people a lot? The answer was, unanimously, trying to find a movie with keywords using Google Search. You just can't find the movie you're looking for.

What it does

Allows a group of people to submit keyword suggestions and then generate a list of movies based on a combination of the most-requested categories.

How we built it

We created an HTML, CSS, JS base on which the website runs, on top of which we used Firebase & Node to integrate servers using the TMDB Movie Search API into our application for users to be able to generate lists of movies.

Challenges we ran into

Generating a list of movies off the TMDB API, which has a very backward keyword search system. Additionally, we mitigated a great deal of conflict with GitHub collaboration, with our respective branches being divergent at certain points. But we persevered!

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The dynamic movie word cloud. We think it's the greatest/prettiest feature of our web app!!

What we learned

TMDB API calls, GitHub collaboration, how to force Git to do what we wanted, how to NOT force Git to do what we wanted, Firebase usage, .json file complexities... does the list ever end?

What's next for It's Movie Night

Rooms! We currently have ONE server room implemented (for this hackathon only). Once fully integrated, like Kahoot rooms; past the demo stage, we aim to design a structure where a friend can "host" the word cloud while all people in their group submit their suggestions, then generate a list of movies based on genre weights.

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