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 — your read on the rate cut, the strike, the price rise. 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.
Generative UI: users invent parameters in their own words; the system decides whether that is a slider, a switch, a timer or a rule.
Give your algorithm 15 minutes and it counts down in the header, then stops the feed: "Your algorithm says stop. That was the deal you made with yourself."
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 — Skewy 82 · checks out, Skewy 60 · mixed picture, Skewy 41 · smells fake — 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. Themes are cosmetic, the recipe is yours either way — 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.