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Friendspire 2.0 - Find better recommendations for what to watch, read or eat

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Finding what to watch, read, or eat has become too difficult. So we created Friendspire, a simpler way to find and save new favorites.
🔍 Better 🎥📺📚🎙️🍴🍷 recommendations
🔖 Save and ➕ rate in one place
🗒️ Discover & build lists
🤝 Connect with friends

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Hey ?makers, what's new since this was posted some months ago?
Maker
Hey ! Great question. Thanks! Really everything 😆 We have spent the last couple months working with our users to understand what they love about the product. That has moved us away from being traditional social media (think feed as landing page) towards being a "social tool" (solving the problem of finding that great rec). It has meant flipping our entire community on it's head! A couple of things that means in terms of features: 🔎 Totally updated find section with new inspiration carousels 🧮 Algorithms that can better predict content you will like 📋 Ability to build your own lists ... and much more!
Excellent, thanks for clarifying. I'm going to update the title with a "2.0" which is standard so the community knows this is an updated product. All the best with your launch 🚀
Maker
Sounds great! Thank you.
Thanks ! Hope to see you on Friendspire 😃
Hunter
Great idea! How does your prediction algorithm work? Can I choose my favourite series and get several series I would like to watch? 🤔
Maker
thanks Elizaveta! You are spot on! !Friendspire will recommend you more of what you like. Different algorithms will help you find the content that suits you. So whether you are in the mood for one of the best shows of all time, or something that is trending right now, it's all there. On top of that we also give higher weight to the opinions of people you choose to follow. The social aspect of the content discovery is my favorite part of the community!!
, OMG IT'S ABSOLUTELY STUNNING! ✨ Thanx for your answer! Sooo am I right, that your product like spotify only in films, series, food, places and other? And the more of my favourite things I share with community and the more soulmates in tastes I follow, the better Friendspire helps me find something new and cool?
EXACTLY 👏 I won't pretend we are QUITE as good as Spotify (yet), but this is exactly the goal. We combine big data + Social network to ultimate give you new, fresh, great recommendations you wouldn't have found otherwise
Maker
Hello Product Hunt 👋 We are !Friendspire, and we are super excited to share our community with you. We wanted to share a little bit of our story, but if you want to jump directly to learning more about the product (it’s all good) you can check out Zach from Youtube’s recent review 🙏 Last year my co-founder and I quit our jobs to start Friendspire 😰 We worked day and night to get the product ready, and we were pumped to launch!!! Then we did … and we just didn’t get the retention we wanted (or needed) 😔 Something HAD to change, and we quickly realized we didn’t have the answers. But we thought we knew who might… There were some users that seemed to keep using Friendspire. So we reached out, and started having conversations with them about what they liked - and what they didn’t. We started building our product specifically for them... That meant a pivot away from “Social Media” towards what we call a “Social Tool”. Focusing on creating a truly great “single player experience”, that focuses more squarely on solving the problem of finding a great recommendation - be it the movie for Sunday night or the podcast for the Monday commute. We saw that our users love of Friendspire grew, and so did our overall community: New users were 3x as likely to become retained. But we also saw that many more users started flowing in, and in just the last week we have welcomed more than 10.000 new Friendspirers 💜 We have a long, and hard way to go, but one thing is clear: We need our users to show us the way. It also became abundantly clear from working with our "super" users, that it was not the Social Media savvy youngster who loved Friendspire. Instead it’s the person that has a true and genuine interest in finding great things! Then we realized: that kind of describes the PH community. So we wanted to share Friendspire with you - as a way to find great things (in categories PH doesn’t cover) 😽 Friendspire is already free, so sure we can give you 50% off or the first month free, but it doesn’t help much 😅 Instead a few pro tips, and a couple of lists I love. “Pro” tips: 🔍 Find great recommendations by quickly filtering for genre and streaming. “Comedy” + “Netflix” = You are now movie night hero 🦸 🔖 Replace the confusing note on your phone, and instead save it all in one place 🤝 Follow awesome tastemakers like Eater or IMDb Lists I love: 🎥 “The 50 Best Movies of All Time” () How many have you watched? 📚 "Truly Fascinating Modern Biographies" (I highly recommend Educated, Shoe Dog, Elon Musk, and Born A Crime) () 🎙️ My co-founder Morten has a pretty badass list of “Podcasts you gotta listen to” () We hope you will check out our app and help show us the way with some feedback 🙏
loving this so far, the problem with this kind of sites is that it does not help a lot people that is a vivid movie and tv shows watcher. when we saw to many things a imdb / csv / sync is a must!
Maker
we TOTALLY agree 😁 That's why we made it easy to transfer all of your ratings WHEREVER YOU HAVE THEM into Friendspire. Just fill in a bit of information here: . Then we will get your recommendations moved on to Friendspire!
if i could, right now would upvote again lol. i sent the details on that link. now... waiting :P
Maker
happy to hear Gloria! Thanks so much. Your stuff should be added soon!
I have been using Friendspire for well over 6 months now and I am a huge fan! It's very easy to find the topics I like to review - but I what I love the most is the recommendations I get from friends.. I found 3 new tv-shows and a bunch of podcasts.. It's been a livesaver during the lockdowns...
Maker
thank you so much! Super happy to have you on Friendspire 😻
totally agree! Really looking forward to be able to use the Food & Drinks section, when we turn to more normal times again...
Been using Friendspire since early days, love the product - and love the fact that I can collect all my favorits and 'want to's' in one place - Movies, TV series, TV Shows, podcasts, etc!
Maker
thank you! Very happy to have you on there and getting your recs!
Interesting to build 'micro-communities' here, and learn what others are learning. "Birds of the same feather flock together" Would love to know what content other inspirational people are consuming on their free time
Maker
thanks Daryll! We are super excited about the interest based communities aspect of !Friendspire and something we see ourselves building a lot on. If you are interested in more on this Andreesen Horowitz recently wrote a great article on what they call Social+, which is all about these communities... We really think it represents the change we went through from traditional "social media" to a "social tool". Excited to see you on Friendspire!
The concept you raised "social media to a social tool" sounds refreshing. For sure, thanks and I'll take a look!
Very Nice app
Maker
thank you! Great to have you be part of the Friendspire community!
I have been using Friendspire for some month now and I am a huge fan! Found 3 new series recommended by Friends and I would probably not have watched them without the recommendation. Friendspire really found something needed in the app market!
Maker
That's awesome Thomas! Nothing better than finding that great new show. Thank you!
Such a great app! It has made my life so much easier saving me for hours of scrolling and I have found new favorites that I would never imagine I would like.
Maker
So happy to hear you found some great stuff ! Thanks for your support.
Big fan of this! Using the app regularly to see what’s trending across multiple platforms (for tv shows, movies and podcasts) and get “friendspired” for new books to read and restaurants/bars to visit. Join this hunt!
Maker
love it! So happy to hear you are finding great stuff on !Friendspire. Thanks for supporting.
Thank you for the kind words 🙏
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