FAQs

  • NowYouKnow is a social media application that lets you see your friends favorite places around the world and lets you share yours. It also lets you easily share and coordinate your travel plans with your friends, so you know when your plans overlap.

  • You can use the app however you like. We recommend using it both when you are traveling and in your home city, so you can share your favorite spots with your friends, or let your friends know what you thought of the newest restaurant in town, or get notified when you have friends visiting your home city.

  • You can review almost anything, from your favorite restaurants & bars to hotels, shops, museums and national parks.

  • Reviews and photos of all your favorite spots, upcoming trips you have planned, and places you want to visit (your Wishlist).

  • Friends & Friends of Friends can see your reviews. Everything else is limited to Friends and Close Friends only.

  • Only your Friends or Close Friends, depending on how you decide to share it.

  • We do not share your exact location with anyone. We only use your location to recommend things around you.

  • Your Wishlist is all the places you would like to visit, but have not had the chance to yet.

  • We believe in the power of recommendations from your network, from people you know and trust. We want reviews to be genuine, and want to limit sponsored posts. While we know that this is bound to happen, we believe by limiting public profiles, we could potentially reduce the number of sponsored posts.

  • Yes, but your friends would greatly benefit from your photos of the place vs. the default photo of that place that will be added when you review it without a photo.

  • The calculations are only based on your friends ratings of the place and their friends rating of the place (we only go up to two degrees of separation, i.e., Friends & Friends of Friends).

  • Each tag on a post indicates that this venue is “Good For” something; the more tags you add, the better your review will be

  • You will only see recommendations from Friends and Friends of Friends; you will not receive any recommendations from anyone outside of your network. In the next 6-12 months, NYK will build and implement an AI feature to assist with recommendations

  • 1) When someone tags you in a post

    2) When someone likes or Wishlists one of your reviews

    3) When a friend is visiting your home town

    4) When you and a friend have an overlapping trip.

    You can edit what notifications you want to receive by navigating to the side menu and going to the notifications screen

  • Not yet, but we are building this for implementation in the near future!

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