Roost — Personal Film Library
Jason Fricano
A personal film library
Roost is a full-stack personal film-library application I designed and built to make a growing collection easy to browse, organize and revisit. The experience connects a home dashboard, collection views, favorites, watched films and custom lists in one consistent navigation system.
Interface and collection workflow
The gallery moves from the poster-tile library to the sign-in screen, a curated comedy list and a movie-detail modal with artwork and metadata. Search, genre filters and alternate views make the same collection useful in different ways. A dark navy palette, warm gold accents and a compact visual hierarchy keep the focus on choosing and organizing films.
Full-stack implementation
My work spans interface design, a plain-JavaScript frontend and a Python/Django backend with SQLite persistence. The application includes account-scoped libraries and lists, authentication, movie-metadata provider adapters and CSV export. These screenshots show my own collection in the working application, with film metadata and poster artwork supplied by TMDB. This is self-initiated product work.
Explore Roost (free for now)
Roost’s sign-in screen carries the same visual identity into the account experience, with account creation and password recovery within reach.
A custom comedy list brings selected films together with the same poster-based browsing controls.
The movie-detail view brings poster art, metadata and list-management actions together. Film artwork and metadata: TMDB.
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Posted Oct 24, 2026
Built a full-stack film library with Django, Python and JavaScript: poster browsing, personal collections, custom lists and movie details.
