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Skewy & the news

Every source. One feed.
You own the algorithm.

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

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The problem

Your feed owns you.
You should own it.

Every feed is tuned for someone else's revenue. The dials are hidden, rage keeps you scrolling, and the news you actually want breaks on platforms you would rather not visit.

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 the markets are 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
X94
Reddit89
BBC71
Odds63
“My classroom changed overnight in the pilot schools.”r/Teachers · top comment
“Good luck taking my kid's phone off her.”@parentview
FeedAlgorithmYou
the same story, measured across every channel
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
RedditBBCOdds 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.

BalancedCatsRage
News
Social
Odds
Local
Good
resulting mix
Topics you like
PoliticsMarketsClimate
FeedAlgorithmYou
a dial per source, saved recipes, on the device
Training

Teach it in
three 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.

SWITCHNo royals
SLIDERPolitics
TIMERStop me14:59
RULENo spoilers till Sunday
“less politics”…
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.

Skins re-theme the whole app in one tap. Zen is calm and white. Ink is full dark. Tabloid shouts in red-top caps. Terminal is green on black for the people who want that. Cosmetic on top, the same recipe underneath.

tap one

Zen
Ink
Tabloid
Terminal
Flavours · how it sounds

From rage bait
to very safe.

One slider sets the temperature of every headline, and named characters go further — Royal, 90s East London, LinkedIn speak, Gen Z. 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 BAITVERY SAFE
or hand it to a character
Royal 90s East London LinkedIn Gen Z
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. Vote first and the room opens up: how the country split, who agrees with you, what they are saying. The result is the reward, so we never show it before you commit.

X and Reddit · heat 94
The school phone ban
“My classroom changed overnight.”r/Teachers
Good idea or bad idea?
Good ideaBad idea
one tap · anonymous · refills the tank
FeedAlgorithmYou
the question sits where thumbs live; the crowd comes after
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
Prediction markets120 fuel
Custom controls300 fuel
Local map500 fuel
Radio900 fuel
the product opens up as you use it
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
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
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

Neutral signal,
honest inventory.

Researchevery vote is recorded before any crowd number is shown — a clean, unbiased panel, sold as data
Questionsthe inventory: research questions first, sponsored ones labelled and reported separately
Gemsa brand can only buy a place by giving something away outright, free to everyone who takes it
Neverno ad follows the person; at most it follows the recipe, on the device
What we build

The order
of work.

Nowthe feed and the algorithm: vanilla start, focus and cards, one-tap answers, dials, training, custom controls, the timer, sharing
Nextskins and voices, the Skewy rating, fuel unlocks as the onboarding spine
Laterthe portable profile and connect code, then the local map, radio, venues and duels — 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

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