Modern web app for cross-referencing movie and TV show cast lists to find an actor or actress. Built during Future Insights Live 2013 in Las Vegas, NV.

##Introductions

• Chicago Hot Dogs - “Red Hot and Snappy”
• ECs @ WMP
• Chicago-based business/tech consulting
• Today we started brainstorming this afternoon out by the pool on break.
  • Charity application
  • OCR bill pay apps
• Scope was too large, start with something really basic
• Had the idea a year or so ago but never had time to truly build it.

##Background

• Have you ever been in a conversation with someone that goes something like this:
  • “Ahh what was that guy in that one movie?”
  • “I know he was in Indepedence Day”
  • “Oh, he was also in Bad Boys.”
• We wanted to build an app to help solve this issue.
• Now we can utilize IMDb to cross-reference the cast lists and find the correct actor using - IntersAct (Intersection of Actors).

##Solution

• Pick two movies (typeahead) and see a list of people in both movies.
• Started with some rough mockups using Paper on iPad down by the pool.
• Found an old copy of IMDb (only movies before year 2000) and ported some of the tables into MySQL.
• Decided on the interface and went about creating the backend API in Node and the front end to consume that API (mobile-first!)
• We use a custom web framework called ClementineJS, written by Kevin available on GitHub, on the front end.

##DEMO