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Start with 5 picks
Use the same cross-media search used inside onboarding. Your picks are saved in a signed cookie and carried into signup.
/try
Open pickerFilm · TV · Music · Books · Games
Your taste across everything.
Track, rate, and discover across film, TV, music, books, and games. See where your taste overlaps with people who get it.
Your five picks carry into signup and seed your first fingerprint.
Actual product path
From public picker to a live taste system.
The landing page now points into the same routes, APIs, imports, fingerprint engine, and discovery surfaces used by the signed-in app.
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Create the account
Signup handles credentials, OAuth, legal consent, risk checks, and the one-step handle claim that unlocks the app shell.
/auth?mode=signup
Create account03
Seed the fingerprint
Onboarding writes demo picks into your favorites, then the 42-factor engine starts shaping your private taste profile.
/fingerprint?welcome=1
View profile04
Bring in the backlog
Spotify, Letterboxd, Goodreads, and Steam imports add real consumption history without blocking first-run entry.
/imports
See imports05
Discover people and titles
Discover ties recommendations, taste neighbors, collections, matches, moments, and messages back to the same fingerprint.
/discover
Explore surfaceHow it works
Three steps to your cultural fingerprint.
5 picks
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Search across media
Start on /try with five titles across film, TV, games, books, or music. The picker uses the same search lanes the product uses after signup.
Saved seed
02
Create the account
Signup and onboarding handle consent, account safety, and your public handle. Saved demo picks are waiting when onboarding completes.
42 factors
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Open the system
Your picks seed the 42-factor fingerprint, then imports, recommendations, taste neighbors, moments, and matches build on the same profile.
Eight archetypes
Your taste is more than a genre list.
Every fingerprint maps to one of eight cultural archetypes. Which one are you?
The Mainstream Maximalist
Scale, finish, and cultural gravity.
The Cozy Completionist
Rituals around media you can live inside.
The Neon-Noir Edgeline
Nocturnal, synthetic, tense, and morally messy.
The Nostalgia Purist
Emotional residue, repeatability, and a trusted shelf.
The Puzzle-Box Voyager
Systems to decode, timelines to trace, mysteries to inhabit.
The Prestige Romantic
Style with feeling — composed and a little elevated.
The Systems Alchemist
Inhabit systems and learn how they breathe.
The Scene-Driven Eclectic
Scenes, subcultures, and rabbit holes over genre.
The social layer
Your fingerprint powers more than recommendations.
After signup, the same profile connects your moments feed, taste neighbors, matches, messages, and public collections.
/home
Moments feed
Home is the social feed for posts from you and people you follow.
Open route/discover?tab=people
Taste neighbors
Discover surfaces people whose fingerprints bend near yours.
Open route/matches
Matches and messages
Taste match pages and messages keep social discovery connected to the same graph.
Open route/discover?tab=collections
Collections
Public shelves and lists turn taste into something other people can browse.
Open routeStart with five picks. Keep them through signup.
The public picker saves your taste seed, then onboarding writes it into your real Overlappd profile.
No credit card required. Import sources later when you are inside.