http://www.friendsonnetflix.com<p>About a year ago Netflix removed their friends feature, where you could see your friends' ratings. This was a great way to discover new movies, but according to them only 2% of their userbase cared. So a few months ago I built this web app to recreate that and more.<p>My goal was for sign-up to be as simple as possible. I don't even ask for your email (maybe I should though?). When you connect your Netflix account it pulls in your ratings/reviews. When you connect your Twitter and/or Facebook, it'll find your friend's profiles and follow them.<p>This was my first attempt at creating something in Python on Google App Engine. Having to denormalize everything was a challenge, but it seems to be working and the Task Queue came in handy. Supposedly it will now scale to millions of users. Good ol' premature optimization.<p>The Netflix API is kind of a pain, in that they don't provide a direct way to get all your ratings. For the initial import, I have to check every title you've ever rented/watched/queued to see if it has a rating. There also isn't any date information associated with your old ratings :(<p>I hope to find better ways to encourage people to share the site with friends. So far hardly anyone follows anyone, merely using it as a backup. This site is a lot more interesting with friends. I even have browser extensions that show your friend's ratings within Netflix.com<p>Any suggestions/feedback is appreciated. Thanks!
You may want to consider changing the name, so you don't have to do it later if Netflix's legal department contacts you.<p><a href="http://developer.netflix.com/page/Api_terms_of_use" rel="nofollow">http://developer.netflix.com/page/Api_terms_of_use</a><p>Section 3.5<p>"In using the Netflix Brands pursuant to Section 3.3, you may not do the following<p>...<p>use a Netflix Brand as the largest or most prominent brand in your Application or as the most prominent element of your Application or <i>as part of the name of your Application</i>;"
Brilliant. Just signed up and told my friends on FB about it too. A few suggestions:<p>* Make it easy, Step 1: Connect netflix, Step 2: Connect Twitter/FB, and so on.<p>* You're telling me something I already know on my home screen, maybe show me highly rated movies from within the FoN network (not necessarily my friends) without telling me who rated them, etc?<p>* You can grab email using FB connect, and it is a great marketing tool once you get going to bring people back to the website.<p>Super excited!
Great! I joined as well. Into_Now has a feature where you can choose to post what you're watching to Facebook. This might be a good feature for you site and help connect people. Good luck!