Skewy.
The deck

Every source. One feed.
The algorithm doesn’t own you.

All the news, the social hype and the prediction markets in one place, without the toxic sites. You start neutral, then make it yours.

The problem

Every feed is tuned for
someone else's revenue.

Your feed owns you, and it was built that way. The dials exist — you are just never allowed to touch them. Bait and boredom keep you scrolling, and the news you actually want breaks on platforms you would rather not visit.

Every other feed
Bait
Ads
Doom
Your time
tuned for them · dials locked away
theirs
Skewy
News
Social
Good news
Stop me
tuned by you · every dial in your hand
yours
Why now

The moment is
wide open.

The old aggregators died, the platforms walled themselves in, and AI just made the expensive parts cheap. Nobody owns "all the news, on your terms" yet.

News breaks social-firstThe story is on X and Reddit, and priced on Kalshi, hours before the wires settle it.
The platforms closedPaid APIs and licensing walls mean nobody aggregates them all — the seat is empty.
AI made it cheapAssembling every story and fact-checking it used to need a newsroom. Now it is a product.
Feed fatigue is mainstreamPeople want the news without the doom-scroll — and they know it is the algorithm's fault.
Who it's for

Three people we win first.

The X refugee
Keeps the app only for breaking news, hates every minute there.
“I only stay for the news. The rest of it makes me feel worse.”
gets: the hype without the cesspool
The markets brain
Reads the wires but wants the Kalshi and Polymarket odds and the crowd beside them.
“The odds moved before the news did. Again.”
gets: every channel on one story
The tired scroller
Wants ten good minutes of news and then a life.
“I want to read for ten minutes and actually stop.”
gets: the dials, and the off switch
Why our news

One story.
Every side of it.

Take the school phone ban. X is furious, Reddit's teachers are celebrating, the wires are measured, and Kalshi is pricing whether it sticks. Skewy shows all of it side by side — and how far apart they are.

The school phone ban
How each channel is playing it
X241k posts · 3h
“Good luck taking my kid's phone off her.”
Reddit18k upvotes
“My classroom changed overnight in the pilot schools.”
BBCtheir headline
Ministers confirm school phone ban for September
Kalshi71% · £1.2m bet
“Ban in force by September” — the money says it happens
FeedAlgorithmYou
the same story — each channel measured in its own units: posts, upvotes, headlines, money
Why our news

Is any of
this real?

Pulling from social means pulling from where things get made up. So every story carries a Skewy rating — how real it appears, and why. A genuine problem, answered in the place people actually meet it.

Skewy 78 · checks out
The ban starts in September
matches the department's release · Kalshi and Polymarket price it near 71%
Skewy 41 · smells fake
“Teachers will search school bags”
Single anonymous source. Contradicts the published guidance.why we rated it
Share this verdict
a rating with its reasons, on every story
Day one

You start
on vanilla.

No sign-up quiz, no taste test. We watch the channels that matter and take whatever is blowing up. Neutral by construction: popularity and recency, nothing else. Every story arrives assembled — headline, original source, and what everyone else is saying. From there, every tap makes it yours.

1 · blowing upX · 241k posts in 3 hours
2 · the topicThe school phone ban
3 · a headline, source keptWritten plainly, credited to where it broke
4 · the room joinsHottest posts and comments from every other channel
broke on X · 241k postsSkewy 78
The school phone ban is happening: every state school from September
RedditBBCKalshi 71%
“My classroom changed overnight in the pilot schools.”r/Teachers · top comment
Your read?
Good ideaBad idea
FeedAlgorithmYou
one assembled story: this is what opens in focus
The core idea

Then you take
the dials.

A dial for every source. Save as many algorithms as you like and switch by mood: everything balanced on the commute, cats and food at night, full rage on a Friday. It lives on your device and it is the reason nobody leaves — your taste is here.

BalancedNo politicsRage
News wires
Social
Betting odds
Local news
Good news
+ Add a dial
Topics you like
PoliticsClimateMarkets
Topics you avoid
Celebrity ×Crypto ×
FeedAlgorithmYou
a dial per source, topics in and out, saved recipes — all on the device
Training

Teach it
in taps.

Nobody wants to fill in a settings screen. So the tuner deals cards: one story at a time, more of this, less of this, or neither — and the dials move behind the scenes. Two minutes of this and the feed is unmistakably yours.

the buttons on the right work — try them

Public social · X
The petition against the phone ban just passed 500k signatures
Less Neither More
taps teach it — try the buttons
FeedAlgorithmYou
taste, not settings — controls where thumbs live
Your own controls

Say it. We build
the control.

Type what you want in plain words and the app decides what that is. "No royals" becomes a switch. "Less politics" becomes a slider. "Stop me after fifteen minutes" becomes a timer. Anything stranger stays a rule, applied as written.

Your controls
SWITCHNo royals
SLIDERPolitics
TIMERStop me14:59
RULENo spoilers till Sunday
“less politics”…
FeedAlgorithmYou
four kinds of control, built from one sentence
Trust

It can tell you
to stop.

Give your algorithm fifteen minutes and it counts down in the header, then closes the feed: "That was the deal you made with yourself."

A feed that switches itself off works against our own business model. That is exactly why it earns the trust everything else here depends on.

STOP IN 0:09
Your algorithm, keeping its word
0:09
Time's up when it hits zero.
Then the feed closes.
5 more minutes
FeedAlgorithmYou
the anti-engagement feature, shipped on purpose — it counts down live
Flavours · how it looks

Same news.
Different clothes.

Not just colour: the same data, weighted completely differently. Zen keeps everything quiet and equal. Flood makes the number the poster. Board reads it as terminal lines. Front page hands the whole page to the headline. Every one is a real direction from our design lab.

tap one

Odds · Kalshi · 14m · 241k posts
The school phone ban is happening
SKEWY 78 · CHECKS OUT
71% on Kalshi£1.2m bet
Good ideaBad idea
FeedAlgorithmYou
Zen
Kalshi has it at
71%
£1.2m bet · 241k posts · Skewy 78
The school phone ban is happening
Good idea?
Bad idea
FeedAlgorithmYou
Flood
skewy@feed:~ phone_ban
odds.kalshi71%
vol.bet£1.2m
posts.x241k
skewy.score78
resolves01.09
> your_call:
[y] good[n] bad
FeedAlgorithmYou
Board
Skewy
Edition 214Kalshi 71%
Phone ban is happening
“My classroom changed overnight in the pilot schools.” — r/Teachers · Skewy 78, checks out
Good idea?61% say yes
Front page
Flavours · how it sounds

From rage bait
to safe bait.

One slider sets the temperature of every headline, and named characters go further — Royal, 90s East London, LinkedIn speak, or whatever is most popular right now. The same story, told the way you can stand it.

drag the slider, tap a character

The same story, at your temperatureNEUTRAL
Schools get the power to ban phones from September
RAGE BAITSAFE BAIT
or hand it to a character
Royal 90s East London LinkedIn Most popular
FeedAlgorithmYou
this slider is live — the sentence follows it
Taking part

Don't just read it.
Have a view.

Every story asks you one question, and answering is a single anonymous tap — that is the whole effort. Then the reward screen opens: how the country split, who agrees with you, and the fuel you just earned. The result is the reward, so we never show it before you commit.

X and Reddit · 241k posts
The school phone ban
Good idea or bad idea?
Good ideaBad idea
one tap · anonymous
FeedAlgorithmYou
before: the question, where thumbs live
The room, after your voteSkewy 78 · checks out
Good idea · 39%Bad idea · 61% · you
“My classroom changed overnight.”r/Teachers · agrees with you
+5 fuel · tank refilled
FeedAlgorithmYou
after: the split, the voices, the fuel
The reward

Taking part
pays you back.

Reading burns fuel; answering fills the tank. Fuel is not a score to admire, it is the currency that buys more: more reading, more channels switched on, more of the app opened up. Streaks and shares pay more again.

Your tank
− reading+ one tap
One answer+24
Five-day streak+40
Share a story+8
Answer a live drop+15
fuel is spendable, not decorative
Onboarding by earning

We ship fast.
You unlock it.

New features arrive constantly, but they do not all arrive at once. Channels, the map, the radio, duels, custom controls: each one opens as you earn it. It paces the onboarding so nobody drowns on day one, and it gives every returning user something new to reach for.

Unlocked
The feedOPEN
Your algorithmOPEN
Next up
Kalshi and Polymarket odds120 fuel
Custom controls300 fuel
Local map500 fuel
Radio900 fuel
the product opens up as you use it
How it spreads

Every good bit
is a link.

A story anyone can read without an account. Your side of a split, straight onto socials. A fact-check verdict, quotable anywhere. And the strong one: your algorithm as a link — a personal recommendation that installs the product and arrives already tuned.

A story
The school phone ban is happening
skewy.app/s/phone-ban
An algorithm · one tap installs it
“RAGE BAIT” — run my recipe
skewy.app/a/rage-bait
A verdict
Skewy 41 · smells fake
skewy.app/r/bag-searches
what actually lands in the group chat
The business

How the money moves.

Readersone anonymous tap per story
The clean panelvotes recorded before any crowd number is shown
Researchers payunbiased signal, sold as data
Sponsorsquestions into the deck
Labelled cardsreported separately, never in the country's numbers
Inventory paysresearch questions always first
Brandsgive something away outright
Gems100% free to everyone who takes it — the only way in
Placement paysa gift with a name on it

Never: no ad follows the person. At most it follows the recipe, on the device.

What we build

Now, next, later.

Now
The feedCardsOne-tap answersThe dialsTrainingCustom controlsThe timerShare linksKalshi + Polymarket
the feed and the algorithm — the two things that win
Next
SkinsVoicesSkewy ratingFuel unlocks
flavours, trust, and the onboarding spine
Later
Open profileConnect QRLocal mapRadioVenuesDuels
all built already, waiting in v3
Try it

The prototype
is live.

The stripped build — the feed, the algorithm and you, nothing else in the way. Everything in this deck is tappable in it.

v4.skewy.pages.dev →

earlier versions, with the map, radio, venues and duels: v3 · v2 · v1