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filitchp
I've had a lot of fun playing around with this. Searching for my favorite movie sound clips is fast and slightly addictive. Lots of Schwarzenegger material, good stuff!
joshmayhem
"You can't handle the truth!" love this app
JayKan24
Great niche tool for some good laugh! Way to go Michael!
ajvb
Great idea, and impressively simple interface. Love it.
jtownsend99
I've already shared countless clips, this is brilliant!
bwanab
Cool idea. But, I put in "Just when I thought I was out". The quote is from Godfather 3 which it didn't give, but showed me a result from the Sopranos (yes, it's there, too as a spoof of the original), but when I selected that result, it took me to the Simpsons.
michaelq
I'll find and add that Godfather 3 quote. It looks like I accidentally referenced the wrong asset for The Sopranos, but the clip plays fine. I'll fix this with the next push. Thanks for spotting this.
keithba
Neat! How did you build this? What's the stack?
michaelq
It's a rails app using high voltage. After trying Elastic Search, I ultimately went with Algolia for the search.
draz
I think s/he meant: where did you get the transcripts? How did you get the timing info for the vid/audio clips, etc.

Great implementation!

michaelq
As for the clips, that was like 90% of the work. I didn't want mediocre results diluting the really good quotes. I was able to scrape some from abandon websites, but I had to capture most of them myself. There are about 22k in total.