Lystic is a social platform built around curated lists instead of posts. Rank films, games, places, people and brands, follow the curators whose taste you trust, and watch the best of everything rise to the top.
Taste deserves better than a feed. Lystic is a social platform built around curated lists instead of posts: films, series, games, places, people, brands, anything worth ranking. The goal is plain: Letterboxd for everything, worldwide.
What it does
- Things come first: every film, game or place is its own page, and lists are the votes that rank it. Rankings build themselves from the lists people write, with no category tree to maintain
- Lists that count: only lists that clear a quality bar move a ranking. An item you add counts once two people have it in a public list or it matches a verified record
- Reputation: the more trusted your taste, the more your list weighs. Levels run from Fresh to Rising, Trusted, Tastemaker and Icon
- Follow people, not noise: a Following feed, "My circle" rankings, a taste match percentage with each person, and recommendations built from it
- Live front page: today, this week, this month and all time, with trending items, top lists and a stream of activity as it happens
- Likes, forks and shares on every list, plus profiles that show a person's collections at a glance
Design
A calm, light-first interface with a matching dark theme, built to feel as good on a phone as on a desktop and installable as an app. Profile photos are cropped and optimized on the way in.
Built with
- React front end, installable as a progressive web app
- Node and TypeScript API on MongoDB and Redis
- A global edge network and object storage for fast media delivery
- Film, game, geography and encyclopedia data sources for verified items
Next
Profile showcases that work as a social CV, share cards for stories and feeds, and head-to-head bracket games.