What MyRecs is, and what it isn't

MyRecs is a trust-based social network for real-life recommendations. We think the question "who do you actually trust?" produces better answers than "what's the highest-rated thing on Google?" — so we built a network around that idea.

What MyRecs is

A social network of trust, organized around your Trust Card — your face on the network.
A way to ask the people you personally trust for recommendations.
A private trust graph: who you trust, and in which categories.
A way to see how you are connected to a person or service — through the people you trust, capped at two handshakes.
A surface where AI helps organize human answers — not the source of recommendations itself.
A platform where every recommendation is written by the recommender themselves.

What MyRecs is not

An ad network. We do not sell placements, and paid placement will never appear higher than recommendations from your trust circle.
A review aggregator. We do not collect star ratings or ask people to rate strangers.
An influencer affiliate catalog. The only context we collect is whether the recommender has a personal connection to what they recommend — never a financial one.
A marketplace. We don't take bookings or process payments.
An aggregator of public recommendations. We don't pull from interviews, podcasts, tweets, books, articles, or any other external source.
A place where staff or AI write recommendations on behalf of a celebrity, expert, or anyone else.

Self-submitted only

Every recommendation on MyRecs is written by the recommender themselves. We do not scrape websites, import quotes from public sources, generate recommendations with AI, or let staff post on someone else's behalf. Even when a public source exists, MyRecs does not use it.

Expert, creator, and celebrity profiles only exist on MyRecs when the person personally adds their own recommendations. Their profile is labelled accordingly.

How AI fits in

Throughout MyRecs you'll see small ✨ AI helpers — improving your question, suggesting who to ask, summarizing answers, grouping near-duplicates. AI never invents a recommendation. It only re-arranges what humans you trust have actually said.

Human recommendations. AI organized.

Trust labels you'll see

Each recommendation tells you how the person knows what they're recommending:

Personally used: Personally used — they hired / went / read / drove / used it themselves.
Close person used: Close person used — someone close to them did, and they're vouching second-hand.
Knows professionally: Knows professionally — they work in the field and know the work.
Heard about it: Heard from a trusted person — they haven't tried it but they trust the source.

Personal connection labels

MyRecs only asks whether the recommender has a personal or professional connection to what they recommend, so readers can place the recommendation in context:

No personal connection: No personal connection — no chip is shown next to the recommendation.
Knows professionally: Knows them professionally — they work in the field or have a working relationship.
Works there: It is their business or workplace — they own it or work there.
Relative or close person: Relative or close person — a personal connection beyond just recommending.

Tell us what's broken

We're testing whether people actually want this. If you have a reaction — good, bad, or confused — please send a message. The product is small enough that every piece of feedback shapes the next iteration.