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Life & fun · January 4, 2013

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First startup, first app: Kwixer

Greetings ! https://www.kwixer.com We’re two freshly graduated students and we’ve developed our first smartphone app called Kwixer with 0 funds! Kwixer enables you to share and review what you do like what movies you’ve watched, what songs you’ve listened to, what books you’ve read, what video games you’ve played and which restaurants you went to. Kwixer is unique because of its social recommendation engine, let’s say you’ve watched “Skyfall” and loved it; Kwixer will not only recommend you other James Bond movies or other action movies your friends loved but will also recommend theme songs…

First startup, first app: Kwixer launched on January 4, 2013 with 12 votes, #110 of 526 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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Kwixer is a social review and recommendation app that lets users track and share movies, music, books, games, and restaurants. The app uses a social recommendation engine that suggests related content based on what friends have enjoyed, including cross-category recommendations like soundtracks tied to movies. Built by two recent graduates, it was available on iOS and Windows Phone with Android in development.

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Greetings ! https://www.kwixer.com We’re two freshly graduated students and we’ve developed our first smartphone app called Kwixer with 0 funds! Kwixer enables you to share and review what you do like what movies you’ve watched, what songs you’ve listened to, what books you’ve read, what video games you’ve played and…

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