Eric Willis

Mac App Advisor by Setapp - Leverages AI to launch the Setapp recommendation system

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Yaroslav Stepanenko
We’ve juts made Setapp a whole lot smarter. Now it’s not just a revolutionary app service, it’s a personal advisor that can offer you the apps you’ll like. With our new recommendation system, Setapp looks at the apps you use and suggests more apps that go well together. The system involves robust analysis including popularity, frequency of use, field-specific apps, and general trends. Give it a spin, our machine learning is eager to start learning!
Stas Kulesh
@yaroslav_stepanenko admire what you guys are doing. The advisor is something that I missed in the earlier version of Setapp. At some point I felt tired of the need of going through the list, installing, researching, trying apps. Will revisit Setapp now.
Yaroslav Stepanenko
@yaroslav_stepanenko @stas_kulesh thanks for sharing your feedback. What you have just said was something we had heard from thousands of users and that's exactly why we've been focused on this functionality during last months. And now it is live! The whole Setapp team is super excited! :-)
Ryan Hoover
LOL @ "Hoover Cat" 😸
Yaroslav Stepanenko
@rrhoover believe it or not, but this is a real cat, his name is Hoover, and he lives in our office. He is even included into the list of employees here - https://macpaw.com/about
Ahmed Sulaiman
Fantastic idea and great implementation! Congrats! 🤘
Pavlo Pedenko
@geek_1001 thanks for your support! Can't wait to get Flawless App on board!
Lisa Dziuba
Firstly, congrats on the launch 🚀🌟 And can app developers influence on your recommendation system? I mean, should app maker in Setapp asks for the review his\her users or make some actions to get the higher chances to be recommended?
Lisa Dziuba
Also, can apps & tools promote themselves in Setapp? 🙂 So, my tool can be recommended without your AI system?
Pavlo Pedenko
@lisadziuba at the moment, there are few ways to promote your app in Setapp: 1) Nice screenshots and texts full of keywords. That's how your app can be spotted through search and surfing through categories. 2) Driving your own traffic into Setapp via Setapp button (like here: http://sipapp.io/)
Jeremy Bauer
@pavlo_pedenko I'd be fine with sponsored apps as long as it's clear which apps are sponsored and which are being recommended by the ai
kosovan
@lisadziuba The recommendation system is completely independent. It is based only on App usage and App popularity among different users. We want to provide equal opportunities to all developers, so there is no way to separately promote any App.
Noizio
Gorgeous work, we are happy to cooperate with you!
Pavlo Pedenko
@noizio thanks for supporting us! You won't believe that, but I'm currently listening to "October rain" in Noizio :)
Ben Tossell
Whats the difference with Setapp ?
Yaroslav Stepanenko
@bentossell We have released a new app recommendation system that predicts the apps Setapp users might like. Hope it helps.
Peter
Thats a cool tool! And it has cats! That makes it awesome!
Andrew Mutavdzija
Very cool - question: is there a way for users to see their data, at least their usage time per app? I think that would be super interesting and probably lead to some solid data analyses.
Pavlo Pedenko
@andym_dc hey. Thanks for supporting us. Answering your question, the thing you have mentioned is already on the roadmap. I'm not sure about the delivery date, but this is something we are discussing really often in the office.
Daniel Alm
@pavlo_pedenko @andym_dc or you could simply use Timing (already part of SetApp) to track and show those usage times ;-)
Denis Dinkevich
Congratulations to the team. Cool product, indeed! :)
Alexey Pedosenko
Congrats to the team!
Alex Chernikov
A very profound and interesting update! Very excited to see what apps it will recommend to me :)
Yaroslav Stepanenko
@alex_chernikov thanks for the feedback. Yes, many people say that, mostly after seeing what the system suggested for those three cats (see the screens above) :-)
Maria Korolenko
Amazing! I'm using MacPaw. Already downloaded Setapp. The guys are doing great job!
Erick Barron
Now all I need is an actual Mac
Ivan Cucer
That's fantastic! Can't wait when Apple as usually will duplicate the idea in the next MacOS (App Store) update LOL
Julia Holovko
Is Setapp good for a Mac-newbie or it is more for Mac-masters? =)
Yaroslav Stepanenko
@julia_holovko Setapp is good for pretty much any Mac user, no matter how long he has worked on a Mac. It is great for the newbies because they do not have to spend time finding the right apps. And it is a really good service for those who you called "Mac-masters" as well :-)
Vincent Denise
Well played, guys!
Vlad Arbatov
OK since we're having a party here... Here's my Setapp Friends link: https://go.setapp.com/invite/524.... If you sign up with it I'll get a free month :) You know... Just sharing cause why not :)
Pavlo Pedenko
@vladzima oh, I just came back from a meeting where we've discussed our updated referral system :) You will love it!
Paul Shuteyev
nice hunt, thanks!
Yaroslav Stepanenko
@paul_shuteyev thanks! we are super excited to release this functionality.
Jerre Baumeister
So it's like Netflix for apps? Really cool!
Arina Komarnitska
Sounds cool. Definitely, will give it a try.