akış
Why akış
News apps got loud. Reading shouldn't.
Feeds fight for your attention with alerts, badges and endless tabs. Akış turns that around: one story at a time, full-bleed, moved by your thumb. The interface stays quiet, so the colour can belong to the stories.
The gesture model
Lobby → Flow → Detail.
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Lobby
The day meets you as a set of calm entry cards. You pick a lane, not a rabbit hole.
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Flow
Stories arrive as full-bleed vertical cards, one swipe apart. The Reels rhythm, brought to reading.
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Detail
Depth is one move 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 still in progress, so treat it as an early look rather than the finished product.
Product principles
Gesture-first
Every core action is a swipe; the interface never makes you hunt and tap.
Vertical stories
Full-bleed cards carry the day. Colour points to the story, not the interface.
Calm by default
Quiet surfaces, plain 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
Personal flow, delivered fast.
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
Pulling in sources, tidying stories, serving the flow with low latency.
Usage analytics
Reading the rhythm, swipes, dwell and returns, to keep improving the flow.
Asset storage & delivery
Story visuals stored and served fast, close to the reader.
Live monitoring
Early observability, so the calm on screen is backed by calm operations.
Roadmap
Design mockups
The screens that set the real face of the flow.
Closed beta
Early readers, feedback rounds, fine-tuning the rhythm.
Public launch
Shipping on the cloud setup above. Calm at scale.
Team
The people behind akış.
Early access
Ready to read the day the quiet way?
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