How Unlocks Work
Earn the product as you answer
Features stay greyed until your preference map is strong enough to make them useful. Here is the full ladder.
The rule
Unlocks are driven by answered questions — not skips, not time on site, not a paywall. Each either/or you complete adds one to your count. Cross a threshold and the matching tile on your dashboard lights up.
Greyed features are waiting rooms, not errors. The product is honest about when it has enough signal to show you a map, a ledger, or a recommendation with a real because-clause.
Visual thresholds
Read the ladder top to bottom. Early unlocks are solo and reflective. Later unlocks lean into place, people, and discovery — some may still show as preview until the social layer ships.
10 answers
Taste Map
A simple picture of what you tend to like — food, places, pace — based on the questions you’ve answered.
Open when unlocked15 answers
Reasons
Short notes from your answers — so when we suggest something, you can see why.
Open when unlocked40 answers
Place Energy
Do you want a lively room or a quiet corner? This tracks how you move through places.
Open when unlocked50 answers
PreviewFriend Overlaps
People who like similar nights, food, and pace — not a “you are 73% alike” score.
Open when unlocked75 answers
PreviewDiscovery
New places and things you might like — only when you’ve answered enough to make that fair.
Open when unlocked100 answers
Deep Taste Map
A fuller picture after you’ve answered a lot — more detail, same honest approach.
Open when unlocked
What does not unlock
Watching tutorials, reading this page, or signing in with Google does not advance the ladder. Only non-skipped answers do. That keeps progress meaningful and the map honest.
If you reset answers from the dashboard, counts restart. You can rebuild — but you will re-earn unlocks from the new run.