Reddit, X, the prediction markets and the wires in one place. Reading burns fuel; answering one anonymous question fills it back up. That deal pays for everything.
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Every feed is tuned for someone else's revenue: rage keeps you scrolling, the dials are hidden, and leaving costs you your taste. News readers get the worst of it — toxic platforms are where the news actually breaks.
The feed is free and every story is whole. Payment is one anonymous tap on a question. The fuel bar makes the deal visible, streaks make it a habit, and the aggregate becomes neutral, vote-first research data — the revenue line.
The story at your eye line comes into focus: what Reddit and X are saying, the sources, the question. Everything else stays a readable headline. No snap, no tricks — it is scrolling, not a wheel. Vote first; the poll is the reward.
The same stories as a deck. Big readable buttons where the swipe goes, the screen taking colour as you lean, the result popping like a match — your side pink, the room's comments arriving with it. Two modes, one feed, one toggle.
Dials for every source. A tone slider. Topic picks. Reaction training. Save several — "Everything, balanced", "Cat & food posts", "RAGE BAIT" — and switch by mood. Nobody leaves the place where their taste lives.
Users invent parameters in their own words; the system decides whether that becomes a slider, a switch, a timer or a plain rule. Generative UI, applied to the one thing users actually want to control.
Give your algorithm 15 minutes and it counts down in the header, then stops the feed.
This works against our business model. That is the point — no other feed will ever do it, and trust is the asset everything else here is built on.
Every share is an install path. Algorithms-as-links is the PLG motion.
Every story carries a score with its reasons one tap away: figure matches the published release; single anonymous source; number contradicts the official data. Shareable as a verdict card.
Zen — the calm white default. Ink — full dark. Tabloid — red-top loud, headlines in caps. Terminal — mono green on black. Cosmetic on top, the same recipe underneath — but people stay where it feels like theirs.
Pasta Craving Duck is what strangers see; the real name stays with the inner circle. The connect QR is an ordinary URL — an open standard, portable anywhere. Built for meeting people on the spot with anonymity intact.
The hyperlocal heatmap, press-play news radio, venue check-in with the ambient TV, and best-of-8 duels are all built and live in the locked v3 prototype. v4 narrows to the two things that win: the feed and the algorithm.
Research data: votes recorded before any crowd signal is shown — the clean panel researchers pay for. Questions are inventory: research first, sponsored cards reported separately. Gems: brands may pay only by giving something 100% free. And no ads follow you — they follow the recipe, on the device.
Prototype: v4.skewy.pages.dev · locked versions v1–v3 alongside.