From a simple idea…
“Why is booking a backyard cinema harder than hosting one?”
The Spark
A great local business, growing on word of mouth.
And every booking buried in an Instagram inbox.
Missed DMs. Phone tag. “How much for a Saturday?”
The experience was magic.
Booking it wasn't.
So we rebuilt The Movie Night Co.
The Movie Night Co: brand & booking site, live at themovienight.co
Open the live siteLocal hire runs on inboxes. Nobody builds them booking engines.
The landscape today
Starts the conversation but cannot take a booking.
Phone calls
Answer the same questions, night after night.
Bank transfers
Close the loop eventually, with no confirmation.
The gap
Nothing lets a customer decide, book and pay in one sitting.
The core experience principles.
The commitments that held from first sketch to production, each one a response to something the product had to live with.
Booked from the couch, on a phone
A mobile-first flow carries packages, availability and payment in one pass, no account, no DMs, no phone tag.
A small business has to run it alone
Standard web technologies and a simple booking admin mean the owner manages every weekend without an agency on retainer.
The brand can't buffer
Static-first pages and optimised media keep the cinematic imagery fast on a suburban mobile connection at 9pm.
Built on a modern, scalable technology stack.
Next.js
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
Stripe
GitHub
Render
tinderbox didn't just build what we asked for. They helped us find a better product.