Someone with great taste leans over and says "you'd love this." You nod. You mean it. Three weeks later you're staring at a streaming menu with no idea what it was, who said it, or why you cared.
Goodpicks exists for exactly that moment. It's a simple tracker for every recommendation you're given — movies, TV shows, books, podcasts, YouTube videos, plain old links — in one list you'll actually check.
Capture in seconds
The fatal flaw of every "I'll remember it" system is friction. So adding a rec is designed to take about ten seconds: type the title, and Goodpicks fills in the rest. Covers, genres, ratings and summaries come from OMDB for film and TV, Open Library for books, and straight from the page itself for links. You confirm, you save, you get back to the conversation.
Every rec also remembers who recommended it — which matters more than it sounds. When you finally watch the thing and it's brilliant, you know exactly whose next suggestion to take seriously.
Know where to watch it
A recommendation you can't find is just homework. Goodpicks checks streaming availability across services, so when you finally sit down at 8pm you already know the answer to "yes, but where?"
New: share with friends
This month we shipped our first set of social features:
- Visibility controls — every rec is private by default. Open individual recs to friends, or make them public.
- Friend profiles — connect with friends and browse what they're watching, reading and listening to, then add anything to your own list in one tap.
- @Mentions — type
@in the "recommended by" field to tag a friend directly. - Direct sharing with an inbox — send a rec straight to a friend with a note. It lands in their inbox; one tap adds it to their list, with you credited as the recommender.
The whole system is built on a simple idea: your list is yours. Nothing is visible to anyone unless you decide it should be.
What's next
The feature we're most excited about is recommender trust scores — per-person hit rates built from what you actually finish and rate. Eight recs from Grandpa Joe, five finished, average rating 8.2? Trust the man.
Goodpicks is free to start. Create your list tonight — the first rec takes about ten seconds, and future-you will thank present-you at 8pm some Thursday.