Great point. I've been considering working on a tool that tried to solve this problem for health apps. It would require the user to fill out a form that teases

Great point. I've been considering working on a tool that tried to solve this problem for health apps. It would require the user to fill out a form that teases out information about their motivations, health goals, lifestyle, etc.(the more data the better the recommendation). They'd then receive an auto generated menu of apps that'd work specifically well for them. I've spent a lot of time talking to my Dad about healthcare (he's a doctor) and he never recommends mobile apps to his patients for weight loss or anything along those lines. I can't really blame him... there are tens of thousands of health apps. That might change if he had an online tool to send his patients to that did the heavy lifting of making an intelligent recommendation. Here's an interesting study that shows how doctors can be a powerful catalyst in this regard: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(11)61344-5/abstract http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67... In the end, it'd just be an app recommendation engine for health. That aside, I 100% agree with what you're saying.