Likewise: Movie, TV, Book Recs

I love this app. I travel lots for work and am always looking for things to do; when I look on yelp or TripAdvisor and I’m met with 8zillion recommendations from people I don’t know — many of them fake or paid. Now I ask my friends what to do — and poke around at my friend’s friends recommendations. I’ve found the best holes-in-the-wall, foody must-eats, and funky boutique hotels with this thing... and my work travel is all the better for it. Thank you Likewise!

I just started using this app and now I’m selecting what I’ve watched, listened to, or read, going through the lists. Right now I’m selecting books I’ve read. For this category I’m using the search function more. It’s quite a pain! Let’s say I type in a book name or an author’s name, Jeffrey Carver for instance, about 7 books he’s written comes up, and I’ve read most of them. I select the first book, it places the check mark, and goes out of my search back to the list screen. In order to select every book of his I’ve read, I have to type in his name each and every time! There is no way to select multiple books or to clear the search myself. Add this ability to the search function because right now your search function isn’t very user friendly.

Likewise is a good app, and with more users will be even better (I got recommendations from the same group of folks and like to sample from a large group of people). The only thing I wasn’t a fan of was the already opted in email on how many notifications I had. I would rather have that box unchecked and I can change if I need to as it was just another email I had to delete. I didn’t use it much as I’m in the habit of constantly using Yelp, but did use when I traveled for quick recos on where to eat or what to see when in town.

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I found this app earlier today through an Instagram ad stating that I'd be able to get date night recommendations for Valentine's Day. I downloaded and signed up for the app, assuming that it would be somewhat easy to search for exactly what I was looking for. All I was met with was frustration and confusion through my time using the app. I decided to just delete after wasting my time trying to figure out how this app works. I think it would be very useful if there were some kind of tutorial immediately after signing up. I still have no idea how to find date night recommendations for Valentine's Day in my specific area, nor do I care to anymore since this app is frustrating and confusing for a user such as myself.

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I don’t really get this app, and it seems to be lacking some pretty obvious things that would make it more useful. First off, there’s a “gamer” flag you can put on your account, but weirdly enough no ability to recommend games. Second, there’s no AI recommendation ability within the app. It would be awesome if, after entering in all your “likes,” the app count spit out “smart recs” for users based off similarities between profiles. Like if someone likes Seinfeld and Starbucks, they’ll be able to see other users recs on coffee places or whatever who also like Seinfeld and Starbucks.