Over the past few weeks, I've been spending more time refining Galaxy Movies rather than adding entirely new features. For anyone who hasn't come across it yet, Galaxy Movies is my movie and TV discovery project. It helps people find titles and chec...

I recently moved production traffic for Galaxy Movies1, my Next.js movie/TV discovery site, off Vercel and onto Cloudflare Workers. Nothing against Vercel. Vercel is a great platform, and the app ran happily there for a long time. But I was paying fo...

My movie discovery site galaxymovies.app1 needed a feature that sounds simple: "email me when something on my watchlist lands on Netflix." Users save titles to a local watchlist, pick their streaming services, and want a nudge the day a title actuall...

I recently added a chatbot feature to Galaxy Movies, my movie discovery app. The idea came from a problem I run into all the time: there are too many movies to choose from, and browsing doesn’t always help. You can scroll through trending lists, ge...

Galaxy Movies is a movie discovery side project ~ Next.js Pages Router on Vercel, TMDB for data, Upstash Redis for caching & rate limiting, and OpenAI for a chat assistant & generated synopses. Everything runs on free tiers, which is the whole point ...