A small team. A big itch to scratch.

We've been power users of Letterboxd, TV Time, Trakt, IMDb and Goodreads for over ten years. Thousands of logged films, episodes and books between us. We know exactly where these apps shine, where they cut corners, and where they've been quietly decaying for years. That decade of obsessive use is the reason we refuse to ship Refract half-built.

In 2024, Florent still had four tracking apps on his phone. TV Time for shows, slowly rotting from neglect. Letterboxd for movies — loved, but incomplete. Trakt for the rare anime that wasn't gated behind a paywall. Goodreads for books that hadn't been updated meaningfully in years.

Four apps. Four logins. Four scattered libraries. No way to see your year-in-review across everything you consumed. No way to ask "what should I watch tonight?" and get an answer that considered all your taste, not just one medium.

So instead of waiting for someone to build it, Florent did. He spent months studying over 50 tracking apps — what worked, what didn't, what people loved, what made them quit. Then he started shipping Refract in public, on Discord, with the help of an obsessive community that grew alongside the app.

Then Jeremy joined — bringing the cross-database matching engine that powers Refract behind the scenes, and quickly stepping up on product, roadmap and community too. Around the same time we crossed our first 1,000 users, and that's when the project shifted gears: a clear long-term plan, a public roadmap, a real release cadence, and the discipline to treat Refract like the product it deserves to be — not a side project, but the cross-media tracker we want to be using ten years from now.

Refract isn't finished. The roadmap is long on purpose. But we're shipping in public, listening hard, and building — for the long run — the tracker we wished existed for the last decade.