Research Essays

Five essays exploring why cinema technology needs a developer ecosystem — and what happens when it gets one.

The Cinema Platform Thesis

Why cinema technology needs a developer ecosystem — and what it looks like when it gets one.

What Stripe Did for Payments

Draw the parallel: Stripe → payments :: Theatrical → cinema. A technical comparison with code examples.

Cinema as Protocol

Cinema-going as cultural infrastructure — why the ritual matters more than the technology.

The 3.3 Billion Dollar API

Vista Group processes $3.3B in annual GTV. The developer ecosystem around it is effectively zero.

Event-Driven Cinema

Why real-time events change everything for cinema operations — and how to build an event bridge.