akış
Why akış
News apps got loud. Reading didn't.
Feeds compete for attention with alerts, badges and infinite tabs. Akış strips that back: one story at a time, full-bleed, moved by your thumb. The interface stays quiet; colour belongs to the stories.
The gesture model
Lobby → Flow → Detail.
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Lobby
The day waits for you as a set of calm entry cards. Pick a lane, not a rabbit hole.
- 02
Flow
Stories arrive as full-bleed vertical cards, one swipe apart. The Reels rhythm, applied to reading.
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Detail
Depth is one gesture away: swipe into the full story, swipe back out. No tabs, no maze.
Live demo
Try the flow. Right here.
This is the real akış build, running live. Swipe through the cards, open a story, feel the rhythm. It's a work in progress, so treat it as an early look rather than the finished thing.
Product pillars
Gesture-first
Every core action is a swipe; the UI never asks for hunting and tapping.
Vertical stories
Full-bleed cards carry the day. Colour signals story, not chrome.
Calm by default
Quiet surfaces, quiet typography, no badges. The noise stays outside.
A flow that learns
The order adapts to how you read. Gently, transparently, on your terms.
Google Cloud
Personalized flow, fast delivery.
Akış is the product at the centre of our Google Cloud credits application. The credits carry the backend from prototype to production:
Feed processing & APIs
Ingesting sources, normalising stories, serving the flow with low latency.
Event analytics
Understanding reading rhythm, swipes, dwell and returns, to tune the flow.
Asset storage & delivery
Story visuals stored and served fast, close to the reader.
Production monitoring
Early observability so the calm on screen is backed by calm operations.
Roadmap
Design mockups
The screens that define the real face of the flow.
Closed beta
Early readers, feedback rounds, tuning the gesture rhythm.
Public launch
Shipping on the cloud setup above. Calm at scale.
Team
The people behind akış.
Early access
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