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Track films, books and TV, all in one place.
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Curate - Track films, books and TV, all in one place.

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Track everything you watch and read. Discover movies, books and TV through real human taste. No ads. No algorithms deciding what you should like. Just a thoughtfully built space for people who take what they watch and read seriously.

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Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Will, the founder of Curate. For years I kept my watchlists and reading lists in my phone's notes app... which tells you everything about how well existing apps were serving me. I tried Letterboxd (films only, loads of ads), Goodreads (books only, horrible to use), etc. Nothing really provided the simplicity, lack of friction and breadth of content I was after. So I built it myself. Curate started as a means of learning some web dev but quickly spiralled into a full-blown passion project, self-funded and solo-built part-time over the last year or so. The result is something I actually wanted: a simple, clean, ad-free space to track films, TV and books in one place. A space that feels more personal than social, but eventually can connect you to likeminded people with similar tastes whose recommendations you can trust. The social layer is being built with care, designed to spark curiosity not exploit attention. This means no ads. No likes. No comments. No performance. Interactions happen through the films, TV shows and books themselves - a quiet, shared record of what you actually love, not what you want to be seen loving. This is the foundation for genuine discovery. Today’s launch is the first step: a low-friction, elegant and (hopefully!) joyful way to track everything you watch and read. A single home for ratings, reactions, notes, recommendations and collections across movies, TV and books. See what your friends are watching and reading. And explore hand-picked, highly-curated collections of the best stuff out there. If you sign up, let me know how it goes! I’d love to know what you think - I’ll be in the comments all day 🙏

Hey , I'd love of this app can make me combine my letterbox and goodreads all into one! Do you support porting of any information from letterbox/goodreads? Or will all users have to start building their profiles from scratch?

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Hey , you can absolutely import from letterboxd and goodreads! You can also import from StoryGraph, Trakt or TV Time. The importers bring across your ratings, reviews, watch/read dates as well as your future watchlist or reading list and any custom lists you have created. I'm also working on imports from IMDb and general CSV which should be released soon. Let me know if you try it out or if there are any other import sources you think I should be considering!

Great job !

I’ve watched this one grow from the very first version, and it’s genuinely replaced the mess of notes on my phone.

Favourite bit is the explore feature. Being able to open a hand-picked collection like the top films of 2025 or the critics' top 25 TV shows and add straight to my watchlist means I'm actually working through the good stuff instead of scrolling for twenty minutes and giving up. Recommendations from friends and colleagues go in the second I hear them, and now books are in there too it's the only list I keep.

Really looking forward to the friend-matching side, being paired with people whose taste actually overlaps with mine is the thing I'd like most.

What's next on the roadmap?

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Thanks  ! That means a lot

Friend matching is actually the thing I'm most excited about long-term too. I say long-term because I'm deliberately holding off on it until there's enough real usage data for the matching to actually mean something. I've used similar features on other apps where the matching is thin and just... wrong, and it quietly erodes trust in the whole platform faster than not having the feature at all. So it'll land when it can be genuinely good, not just present.

When it does, it'll work at the account level- matching you with people whose taste overlaps, rather than an algorithm pushing individual recommendations at the content level. That keeps the human-first discovery model intact; it's a layer that helps you find the right people to follow and trust, not a black box telling you what to watch.

Closer term, the thing I'm most excited about is the social layer landing on content pages: seeing exactly what your friends have rated and reviewed for a film, show, or book right there when you're looking at it. It's the single most-requested thing from users, and it's coming very soon. Beyond that, there's a steady stream of smaller improvements I'm working through based on what people are asking for.

Appreciate you taking the time to write this 🙏 very useful to hear what's landing well!