Note: Project entry created well after project was finished. It refers to MatchFlick, which I created but I sold and is no longer under my control. For the most part, it looks and functions the same as I left it, though.
MatchFlick was supposed to be my opus, and perhaps in some ways, it was. When I came up with the idea while sitting in a movie Heater in New York City, I decided it would be the culmination of every thing I had learned previously, about programming and about business. And I was going to tie it all in with my love of movies.
I feel I succeeded in creating about as advanced of a website as I was able to create. And I excelled in other areas I was not expecting, namely writing (MatchFlick Friday, for those of you that recall). Where I failed was on the business side, and in understanding myself and social networking. I did not enjoy business development, and quite frankly, I ended up seeing little value in talking to strangers about movies. Those are two pretty big flaws in running a movie-based social networking site all by yourself.
I sold the site in 2006. Nevertheless, it remains one of my favorite projects. It occupied me for three years and was a constant supply of engaging problem solving. I built a robust social networking site from scratch that got over 2,500 people to join the service and had a high of 36,000 visitors in a month. Users wrote 1,823 movie reviews. I created a movie database of 14,500 films and 20,000 people in film. In the end, the project produced 35,000 lines of code, all written by me.
