MaxMovies

About

A video-on-demand streaming platform for movies and TV — catalogue browsing, metadata, and playback.

What I built

• Built the platform on the TALL stack with a Filament admin surface for catalogue management.
• Enriched catalogue data automatically from TMDB and IMDB rather than maintaining metadata by hand.
• Aggregated multiple streaming and embed providers behind one playback layer, so a title could fall back between sources without the viewer noticing.
• Built chunked file uploads — front-end splitting with server-side reassembly — to move media past a 100 MB single-request ceiling, then forward it to external video-host integrations.

Outcome

Never found meaningful traction and was wound down in late 2025.

What I took away

• The chunked upload work is the part I would build again — resumable transfer is a genuinely reusable primitive, and I have reached for the same pattern since.
• Aggregating unreliable third-party providers is mostly an exercise in designing good fallbacks.
• A second project into the same lesson: shipping a capable product is not the same as finding an audience for it.