Looped: picks from friends

Pettigrew Lab

About this app

Looped is a recommendation network for people you already know, not a public feed of strangers. It runs on an invite: someone already in has to bring you in.

Two questions a week, dropping Sunday and Wednesday at 8:00 AM Eastern. You answer first. Nobody's picks open until yours does, and when the next question drops, everyone's reveal opens at the same instant.

A reveal only shows picks from people you're connected to. Everything you save lands in your own library, sorted into Your answers, To try, and Tried, so what a friend recommended doesn't disappear into a chat thread you'll never find again.

Answers stack up by category over time, too. Every kitchen pick your people have ever made sits on one shelf.

The part that makes Looped different: closing the loop. When you try something a friend recommended, you tell them whether it landed. That's the whole point of asking someone you trust in the first place, knowing if it actually worked.

You get one email a week by default, the Sunday digest. There's an optional reminder before a question closes, but it stays off unless you turn it on yourself.

Looped is not a place to build a following. No public profile, no like count, no algorithm deciding what you see. Just the people you invited, and the questions you all answer together.

Looped is at loopedthings.com on the web. Same account, same picks, whichever one you open.

What’s new

Fewer taps to this week's question, which now sits at the top of the app. Answers can be read by category, so every kitchen pick lives on one shelf. A person's page shows how their picks went for you, and how yours went for them. Every pick now carries the question it answered, so nothing in your library shows up without context.