Tiny Review makes reviews fun, short, and easy.

Tiny Review is a way to caption the world. More than just a photo and more interesting than plain text, Tiny Review lets you capture a feeling, tell a story, share an opinion, tell a joke, or leave a review about a place. Reviews were just the starting point, we suspected that Tiny Review would take its own life as a new place for wit, stories, and creative expression.

We were inspired to create Tiny Review on a recent trip to Tokyo, where tiny shops hide in alleyways and sushi counters go incognito with no signs to lead you to them. How do you discover all the places around you? We didn't care for star ratings—what does 3.5 stars mean anyway?

Instead we wanted to get a feel for a place: who has been there, what have they experienced. Since you can't read paragraphs while walking around dodging traffic, you had to take it in at a glance. Tiny Review was born as three lines plus a photo, and it blew us away. It's so quick and expressive that it's no surprise that it's gone far beyond the reviews we originally pictured.

TEAM

Melissa Miranda
Melissa is the co-founder and Lead Designer at Tiny Review. Previously, she co-founded ListCharming, a gift registry; and led product at MUBI, an award-winning social network for indie film lovers. She was a designer at IDEO and a coach at Stanford's Design School. Melissa holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA from Dartmouth College.
Dick Brouwer
Dick co-founded Tiny Review and ListCharming along with Melissa. Previously, Dick was at Amprius, a clean-tech company funded by Kleiner Perkins and Vantage Point Capital; at Everytrail, a trip sharing site which sold to TripAdvisor; and started Socialfly which was part of fbFund 2008. Dick holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. Dick hails from Holland, where he grew up eating raw herring.

Tiny Review is part of 500 Startups and The Designer Fund, and funded by Silicon Valley angels. Follow Tiny Review on AngelList.