I believe recommending something to a person you care about is a sacred act.
Taking the time to make a thoughtful and precise recommendation is incredibly rewarding, especially if it's for something that you also share a love for. Taste can be elusive or conditional. Giving someone a great recommendation is akin to giving them a personal gift; it shows that you care to understand something that they care about.
Seen't is an app that was born out of a collective frustration from me and my friends with a movie review app called Letterboxd. Letterboxd describes themselves as a "Global community of cinephiles" and a "social platform for sharing your taste in film". I actually think they deliver on these promises quite well. The Letterboxd community is full of budding critics and cinephiles chomping at the bit to expatiate upon anything from "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" to "Inside Out 2". While these community reviews can be entertaining and informative, I believe Letterboxd is fundamentally (and unintentionally) anti-friends.
It often feels like a PhD in Letterboxd navigation is required to perform basic tasks like finding and following anyone specific. If you're skilled enough to master this, you're rewarded with reviews from the people you actually care to hear from, tucked away in a dusty, dark corner of the app.
Seen't is still very early in its design process. What I have designed does not currently reflect the long-term vision, but rather an intermediary step to audit and validate the foundational elements of what someone needs to log, review, and share movies with their friends.
The long-term goal is to build a movie-sharing experience that truly feels friend-focused. I'm envisioning features like friend taste match scores, favorite movies in common, and a way to recommend movies to your friends that will special every time.