Launched this week
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.
Great job @willblacklock !
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?
Thanks @afb ! 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!
@willblacklock Makes a lot of sense! I agree, better to wait until the matching genuinely means something than ship it thin.
Friend ratings on content pages would be awesome. So often I am staring at a film/show or even book wondering whether to commit, and one review from someone whose taste I know beats any aggregate score.
Keep it coming 👏
@afb 100% agree, thanks for your support!
Hey @willblacklock, 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?
Hey @cyd_cowley , 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!
I’ve been using Curate for a few months now and it’s been great to see it growing with new features coming out all the time. Congrats on the launch and keep it up! The movie stats on the profile page are the best I’ve seen across the tracking apps I’ve used- is there a timeline for the release of book and tv stats?
@callum_fiske Thanks for your kind words! Both are on the roadmap and I hope to see them released before the end of the year. There's some bigger updates that are coming first; namely a proper social layer for the movie/book/tv show details pages so you can see what your friends have rated/reviewed at a glance and an update to the book search backend to increase its coverage to handle more obscure and recent titles.
Congrats on the launch, Will! 🎉 I've been using Curate for films, TV, + books for a while now and it's completely replaced the mess of separate apps and notes I used to juggle. The recommendation side is the standout for me... the curated collections in the Explore page (I've gone through a few of the "As Recommended By" ones) have pointed me to stuff I never would've stumbled on scrolling elsewhere. It feels much more intentional than an algo.
One question for you, any sense of timing on the friend-matching feature? I know you've said you're holding off until there's enough usage data to make it meaningful, which makes total sense, but it's one thing I'm looking forward to. Being matched with people whose taste actually overlaps with mine sounds like the kind of "trustworthy recommendation" this app is built around...
Wishing you a huge launch day, really excited to see where this goes! 🙌
Thank you to everyone who checked out Curate over the weekend, left a comment, or gave it an upvote! Out of the hundreds of products released on Saturday, Curate reached #19 which ain't too shabby.
If I didn't reply to your comment, apologies- it looks like Product Hunt's system hides some activity from newer accounts, so a few comments may not have shown up on my end.
Loved reading everything I could see, and looking forward to keeping building based on everything you've told me.