Social Platform2026

FirstCinema

A film community built around the catalog: browse, review, collect, and follow the people whose taste you actually trust.

Year
2026
FirstCinema

The Results

Measurable impact on business growth and user experience

120K+
Films Cataloged
8,500+
Reviews Published
<50ms
Search Latency

The Challenge

A film catalog is only worth having if you can find anything in it, and a community around it only works if moderation keeps pace with the people posting. Both problems get harder with every title and every member added.

The Solution

We put Typesense in front of the catalog for instant search, moved the heavy work of imports, notifications and mail onto background queues, and gave moderators a dedicated admin panel with real queues instead of database access. The API, web app and admin panel share one set of typed contracts, so a schema change surfaces at compile time rather than in production.

Technologies Used

Next.jsNestJSPrismaPostgreSQLRedisTypesenseBullMQSocket.IOCloudflare R2Docker

Key Features

Instant search across the film catalog
Rich-text reviews and star ratings
Curated collections with drag-and-drop ordering
Follows, activity feeds and real-time notifications
Admin panel with catalog and moderation queues
Nightly automated database backups
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