Curated

Lists worth keeping

Find human-curated recommendations from people you trust.

Hand-picked lists from people you trust with the best taste. Books, hotels, restaurants, music playlists, whatever you can think of.

Curated is a platform for finding human-curated recommendations. People with taste — book critics, hotel writers, record-store buyers, film critics — publish hand-picked lists of the things worth keeping: books, restaurants, films, vinyl, hotels, anything. Each list is chosen by one person, never assembled by an algorithm. Readers subscribe to the curators they trust. No ads. No engagement feed.

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01 · A DIFFERENT KIND OF LIST

Where people with taste publish.

travel
vinyl
restaurants
books
films

Or anything else worth keeping.

Each list is hand-picked, not assembled by an algorithm. Subscribe to the curators you trust and pay them for their work. With Curated, we don’t need traditional advertising. It’s what online recommendations should feel like — someone you trust telling you what’s good.

02 · WHAT PEOPLE ARE PUBLISHING

Great recs. Finally.

ALREADY PUBLISHING

anya · jordan · mara · theo · rae · ren. Ninety-four more, waiting to publish.

03 · HOW IT WORKS

A curator publishes. You subscribe.

  1. 01

    A curator publishes a list.

    One person, one point of view. Each pick written by hand, with a line on why it belongs.

  2. 02

    You subscribe to their taste.

    Preview a few picks free. Pay the curator directly to unlock the rest — monthly or one-time, their call.

  3. 03

    They keep almost all of it.

    No middleman cut, no ad reads, no sponsor pretending to be a recommendation. Just a wage for taste.

No algorithm.

No randoms.

No unwanted BS.

Just someone you trust, telling you what’s good.

— the Curated manifesto

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Get paid for great taste.

Substack made writing pay. YouTube made video pay. Curated pays the people whose recommendations improve everyone else’s life.

We read every application. We’ll write back either way.

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