LIKELY

What this is, and what it isn’t.

Likely guides you through a short, responsive conversation, draws a Thoughtform, and reflects the kind of person who could add something to your life now. Then it lets you hold that reflection next to someone else’s.

STUDENT PROJECT · EXPERIMENTALLikely is an independent student project built for learning, curiosity, and entertainment. It is not a professional service, scientific study, psychological assessment, or source of expert advice. Its reflections can be incomplete, inaccurate, or simply not fit you.

WHAT IT IS

A guided self-report experience followed by six signals, each pointing at a style of thinking that psychologists study: how vivid your mental imagery is, how language arrives, how far your first association travels, what pulls you on a free evening, how loudly your body reports, and how your attention likes to sit. Two quick questions before the six decide what the read is for, and one optional line at the end lets you say it in your own words. Everyone answers the same nine turns in the same order.

The result describes phenomenology and preference — what your experience is like and what you are drawn to. That is what self-report can honestly measure.

WHAT IT ISN’T

It is not a diagnosis, a clinical instrument, or a personality test with validated scores. It does not measure ability, accuracy, intelligence or health. Nothing here reads neural activity — the glowing brain is a metaphor, drawn from your answers and nothing else.

Six questions is one item per dimension. Published short personality scales generally use at least two per dimension and openly accept weaker reliability for it. That is why the result is labelled an early read, why a mid-scale answer is marked as a faint read, and why the language hedges instead of pronouncing.

And it is not a compatibility score. The best available evidence — machine learning over a hundred-plus pre-meeting measures — predicted almost none of the part of attraction that is specific to a particular pair. So Likely will never show you a match percentage. It can suggest a conversation worth having. Only the conversation can test it.

THE HONESTY POLICY

Where the app is still a prototype, it says so on the screen where it matters — not only here.

TERMS, THE SHORT VERSION

Likely is an independent student prototype offered “as is” and “as available,” without promises or warranties about accuracy, reliability, availability, security, or fitness for a particular purpose. It may change, lose data, or stop working between visits. Your map is saved in your browser, and clearing site data — or a browser that blocks storage — loses that copy.

Finishing the six questions also writes one anonymous row to our database: the six answers, the archetype, and the time. No name, no email, no account. Joining the pool adds a second row, which holds a first name and one link only if you typed them. Delete all of it whenever you like with Delete my Thoughtform on the result screen. The privacy page lists every field.

Nothing here is medical, mental-health, relationship, employment, financial, legal, or safety advice. Do not use it to make a consequential decision about yourself or another person. Use it at your own discretion. To the extent permitted by law, the creator is not responsible for decisions, relationship outcomes, losses, disputes, or harm caused by relying on or being unable to use this experiment; this does not exclude responsibility that the law does not allow to be excluded.

Discovery — meeting someone new — is open, in a first form. Joining the pool matches you with a real person who joined it too: never a sample, never a stand-in, and if there is nobody there yet the screen says exactly that rather than inventing somebody. It shows you their archetype, what they came for, and where your six answers run alike and where they do not — as bands, never as a score, because it does not score the pair and never will. Their name and link appear only if they chose to type them, and yours only if you did. Nobody is matched for having merely finished a map; joining the pool is the consent, it is 18 or older only, and you confirm that before anything is stored. What is not built yet: there is no mutual-consent step, no automated block or report, and no way to ask for a different person — a match is an introduction, so looking again shows you the same one. The screens say all of this where it matters, and the privacy page lists exactly what joining stores.

PRIVACY

Six numbers, an archetype and a timestamp are stored — with no name, no email and no account attached — so that the count in the corner and the map of minds can be real rather than decorative. If you join the pool, that stores your intent, up to two topics, your unscored mirror-or-complement answer, and a first name and one link if you chose to type them. Two taps delete all of it. Everything else, including the whole of a comparison with a friend, is worked out in your browser and stored nowhere. The full detail is on the privacy page.

The microphone is optional. On choice questions it turns speech into the same answer a tap would have made; no audio or transcript is kept. On the final, clearly labelled open response, dictation puts editable words into the text box, and those words stay only in this browser as part of your private reflection. Not pressing it costs you nothing. The whole story is here.

WHO MADE IT

Built by Devanshu as an independent student project. Reach him at hello@likely.social.

LAST UPDATED 23 AUGUST 2026 · RESEARCH · PRIVACY · BACK TO THE APP