Videodrome

The brief

Videodrome is a physical video store in Atlanta with a catalog most streaming services cannot match: roughly thirty thousand titles, curated and organized by director and country rather than by algorithm. The job was to give that catalog a web presence worthy of the shelves, and to make the inventory behind it something the staff could actually run.

The hard part

The existing data lived in a legacy Clarion desktop database: a closed, decades-old system that was never meant to talk to the web. The real work was not the storefront, it was getting thirty thousand records out of that system without losing the hand-built organization that makes the store what it is, then modeling them in PostgreSQL in a way that supports search by title, director, and country, plus live rental availability.

The build

The front end is a TypeScript and Next.js storefront over that Postgres catalog: a fast search, filters for availability and genre, and film cards that show poster, director, year, and how many copies are left. The same data model feeds the point-of-sale and inventory side, so what a customer sees online and what the staff sees at the counter come from one source of truth rather than two systems drifting apart. The look is deliberately editorial and dark, built on a small design system so new sections stay consistent as the catalog grows.

Where it stands

The design and data model are built and the rebuild is in development, not yet live on the store's domain. The screens here are from the working design. Next up is finishing the migration tooling and the staff-facing inventory views before launch.