The Desert Island Library is a sophisticated media recommendation service which allows users to exchange ratings on favorite books, movies and music in a closed social networking environment. Recommendations are exchanged solely between trusted friends, rather than intuited from strangers based on heuristic algorithms or purchasing trends, resulting in an organically developed user base with a high degree of loyalty to the collaborative environment.

Tidal Lock was approached to provide initial inception and strategy, followed by usability, design and code development. The application was built in PHP and MySQL, and soft-launched to a selected user group for focus testing and early viral adoption.