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pickaru
Swipe to pick a movie, show, dinner or board game together
Ends the "what should we watch / eat / play" argument. One person deals a deck of movies, shows, cuisines or board games, friends join with a code, swipe privately (yes / no / maybe / veto), and results unlock for everyone at once. Free, ad-free, no install.
pickaru is a free web app for the argument every friend group has:
what should we watch / eat / play tonight?
How it works. One person deals a deck — a movie night, a series to binge, what to eat, or a board game — from moods, streaming providers, IMDb rating and runtime sliders, or by hand-picking titles. Everyone else opens a 6-letter code on their own phone and swipes each card **privately**: yes / no / maybe, plus one veto for the thing you genuinely can't sit through. Nobody sees anyone's votes while swiping, so the loudest person doesn't anchor the room. When the last person finishes, results unlock for everyone at once: a full match if you all said yes to the same thing, otherwise the ranked shortlist — or a roulette that only spins on what the group already liked.
Four decks, one pipeline:
· 🎬 movies and 📺 shows (connect your trakt account to deal from your collection and hide already watched)
· 🍜 eats (cuisines & cravings — decide the food first, pick the place after)
· 🎲 dice (board games, dealt from your own BoardGameGeek shelf if you connect one).
What it isn't: not an app-store app (runs in the browser, installs to the home screen), no account required (guests join and host, upgrade to an email later and keep your history), no ads, no AI picking for you — it's purely "help five people agree in two minutes".
The honest parts. It's a solo side project on a free stack: film & series data from TMDB, ratings from IMDb, games from BoardGameGeek, all with attribution. The eats deck is cuisine-only for now — the nearby-restaurant mode is built but parked until the map data is fresher.
Things I'd love to hear from you: - Which deck would you actually open first — and which is missing? - Is private voting + one veto the right amount of politics, or too much? - What would make you reach for this over a group chat poll?
Try it with your crew tonight: https://pickaru.com — I'll be in the comments all day.
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About pickaru on Product Hunt
“Swipe to pick a movie, show, dinner or board game together”
pickaru was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #137 on the daily leaderboard. Ends the "what should we watch / eat / play" argument. One person deals a deck of movies, shows, cuisines or board games, friends join with a code, swipe privately (yes / no / maybe / veto), and results unlock for everyone at once. Free, ad-free, no install.
pickaru was featured in Board Games (5.4k followers), Movies (15.1k followers) and Social Networking (1.8k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 6.9k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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Maja Dobnik
Hi Product Hunt 👋
pickaru is a free web app for the argument every friend group has:
what should we watch / eat / play tonight?
How it works. One person deals a deck — a movie night, a series to binge, what to eat, or a board game — from moods, streaming providers, IMDb rating and runtime sliders, or by hand-picking titles. Everyone else opens a 6-letter code on their own phone and swipes each card **privately**: yes / no / maybe, plus one veto for the thing you genuinely can't sit through. Nobody sees anyone's votes while swiping, so the loudest person doesn't anchor the room. When the last person finishes, results unlock for everyone at once: a full match if you all said yes to the same thing, otherwise the ranked shortlist — or a roulette that only spins on what the group already liked.
Four decks, one pipeline:
· 🎬 movies and 📺 shows (connect your trakt account to deal from your collection and hide already watched)
· 🍜 eats (cuisines & cravings — decide the food first, pick the place after)
· 🎲 dice (board games, dealt from your own BoardGameGeek shelf if you connect one).
What it isn't: not an app-store app (runs in the browser, installs to the home screen), no account required (guests join and host, upgrade to an email later and keep your history), no ads, no AI picking for you — it's purely "help five people agree in two minutes".
The honest parts. It's a solo side project on a free stack: film & series data from TMDB, ratings from IMDb, games from BoardGameGeek, all with attribution. The eats deck is cuisine-only for now — the nearby-restaurant mode is built but parked until the map data is fresher.
Things I'd love to hear from you:
- Which deck would you actually open first — and which is missing?
- Is private voting + one veto the right amount of politics, or too much?
- What would make you reach for this over a group chat poll?
Try it with your crew tonight: https://pickaru.com — I'll be in the comments all day.