My App Has Been Named!
I know you thought you’d never hear from me about this again, but I have finally Named My App. Thanks again to all for the great suggestions. They were so much better than I could have come up with.
And the winner is…
Moviesaurus Rex from Brendan Cullen.
I really liked every suggestion, but as soon as I saw this one I pictured a fat purple dinosaur with big googly eyes tossing DVDs down his gullet with abandon.
Thanks, Brendan! You have won…absolutely nothing! Well, not true. Your idea of a name will go on, your name will forever appear in the credits for the application, and you will have my eternal gratitude. Sorry I can’t afford a real prize.
Now, don’t anyone expect this thing to show up anytime soon. My husband (for some reason) insists that I get paid work done before I work on my personal project. Hmph. Need I lament again about how hard it is to fit my job (well, the one I actually get dough for doing) done?
BUT, that doesn’t mean that this will sit around forever. And I really doubt anyone else will have much interest in it anyway. I’d actually be surprised if there is anyone even reading this far. If you are, here are the features I plan to include.
- Track movie collection (DVDs, VHS, digital downloads for when I get an iPod that will handle video)
- Print filtered/unfiltered shopping list
- Print filtered/unfiltered wish lists
- Track movies I want to see
- Track movie release dates (iCal/Google Calendar integration?)
- UPC/ISBN entry of inventory (lookup through Amazon?)
- AIR app
- E-mail reminders (movie release dates)
- Track movies loaned to people (Address Book/Gmail contact integration?)
- Track purchase price and provide total investment reports
- Provide net worth based on median price on Half.com and Amazon Marketplace
- Updates on wish list items available at Amazon, eBay, and/or Half.com
- Wish list import from Amazon and Half.com
- Multiple users
- Pretty pie charts by genre, price, format (useless eye candy)
- Search by title, format, keyword, actor
- Personal ratings and reviews/comments
- Critic information from Rotten Tomato
- Ratings from Amazon
- Images (hosted on Flickr or picasa)
- Suggest movies to friends or warn them of duds
- Look up title at library and place a hold
- Share wish lists with others to provide gift suggestions
- Series movies linked together somehow
- Similar movie suggestions
This is not a definite list by any means; just the result of brainstorming and a lot of “Gee, I wish there was an app that would do that” and “Wow! I could use the API to do this” kind of things. As you can see, this is quickly growing bigger than simply tracking what DVDs I have. I’m hoping to track a lot of things. For me it will be really helpful to be able to take a list of movies that I want to see with me to the video store, or a list of movies I have on VHS and I want to get on DVD to Half Price Books. I think there are lots of opportunities here to integrate with other applications and services out there, too. I can’t wait to get started.
August 16th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
YEAH! That’s a good name.
August 17th, 2008 at 11:18 am
Damn, I thought Ruby on Reels had a chance.
August 17th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
I know. I really, really liked ‘Ruby on Reels,’ too. It was a very tough decision.
August 18th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Dang! You sound smart, dana.
August 19th, 2008 at 8:30 am
@Christy Awww, thanks. But, I’m not so much smart as a geek who likes to learn
August 20th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
You’ll have to keep me posted, I want to make something similar for records but I am probably too lazy.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:27 pm
YES!
I though for sure Ruby on Reels was going to take it. Only good things can come of this