How a Group of Students Is Quietly Rebuilding the Way You Discover What to Watch, Listen to, and Read

How a Group of Students Is Quietly Rebuilding the Way You Discover What to Watch, Listen to, and Read — Without Algorithms

We’re not supposed to be building this.

We're just students from Brazil. No Silicon Valley mentors. No big funding. No hype machine.

But we’re here — and people are starting to notice.

Because while everyone else is racing to build smarter algorithms, we’re doing something completely different:

We’re rebuilding trust in recommendations — by putting humans back at the center of culture.

Welcome to RecomendeMe.

💥 The Spark: Frustration with the Algorithmic Feed

We were tired of being told what to watch by a black box.

Netflix, Spotify, YouTube — they all started to feel like they were showing us the same content, over and over. Not because it was the best, but because it was the safest.

Worse: it felt soulless.

Where was the why behind a recommendation? Where was the emotion? The randomness? The humanity?

We didn’t trust the algorithm anymore. So we built something we could trust: each other.

🛠️ The First Version: Ugly, Raw — and Alive

We launched a rough page. A list of films. No machine learning. No “If you liked X, you’ll love Y.”

Just real people recommending stuff they loved, with a simple reason:
“This made me feel something. You might like it too.”

And something clicked. Hard.

Friends started sharing music. Books. Podcasts. Tools. People from different cities — and eventually different countries — started using it.

We realized we weren’t building a startup.
We were igniting a movement.

🧠 What Makes RecomendeMe Different?

We’re not trying to predict what you’ll like.
We’re trying to connect you to someone who already did.

🔍 Real people post real recommendations

💬 Every rec includes why it meant something

🎭 You can explore by genre, emotion, or location

🗺️ There's a cultural map of what's popular near you

🤖 Our chatbot doesn’t hallucinate — it pulls live, real recommendations

This isn’t about what’s trending. It’s about what’s authentic.

🚀 From a Side Project to a Cultural Rebellion
We didn’t ask for permission.
We didn’t wait for funding.
We didn’t spend months pitching decks.

We just built what we needed — and people followed.

RecomendeMe is now a place where:

A Brazilian film can go viral in Canada

A forgotten book can inspire a new generation

A podcast with 38 listeners can become someone’s favorite

A random user can shift your perspective with a single post

This isn’t an app. It’s a resistance to content fatigue.

🔮 What’s Next for RecomendeMe?
We’re not done. Not even close.

Coming soon:

🎥 Video-style recs, TikTok-style — but about real taste

🌎 Multilingual version (EN, PT, ES) to build across cultures

🧑‍🎨 Creator mode — where curators and artists post what they love

💬 Fast community chat (no LLM fluff — just real-time, real recs)

And yeah — we’ve had people approach us about funding.
But we’re building carefully. And with values.

No growth hacks. No bullshit.

❤️ Why It Actually Matters

We believe discovery is not about algorithms.
It’s about people.

Recs should feel personal, not optimized.

Taste is not a funnel. It’s a fingerprint.

The best things in life are recommended by someone who cares.

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed, uninspired, or creatively numb…

Then RecomendeMe was built for you.