Reco

One profile for everything you watch, play and read. Building it with two friends. I own the backend and the recommendations. Pre-launch.

The problem

• Letterboxd tracks film, Goodreads tracks books, Backloggd tracks games
• Your taste is one thing, split across accounts that never talk
• Nothing connects them. Reading Sapiens? Play Assassin’s Creed II, then watch Kingdom of Heaven

Decisions

• Every format equal from day one. A film-only Reco is just a worse Letterboxd
• Functional before beautiful, since the design will keep changing
• Early recommendations get labeled “thematically similar”, not “for you”, until there are enough users to earn it

Rollout

• Friends and family, then a waitlist, then invites, then open

Express, TypeScript, Supabase, OpenAI embeddings, React Native, Expo