The feed — live rooms, not a slot machine
Open the app and see what people are actually doing right now. If nobody is live, there is nothing to scroll. That is a feature, not a bug.
Notice: Planned Product Information
This documentation describes functionality and policies planned for the hosted Kookey social platform, targeting release in Q1 2027. The current public website is a static presentation and waitlist.
1.What you see when you open the app
The feed shows live rooms. You swipe through, hear a bit of what is playing, and join if it sounds good. When a room ends, it disappears from the feed. The app does not fill the gap with a sponsored post, an ad for something you searched for yesterday, or a recommendation that is technically related to something you watched three months ago if you squint.
If nobody you follow is in a room right now, the feed is quiet. That might feel unfamiliar. Most apps are engineered to never let that happen because an empty feed is a missed engagement opportunity. Kookey is not optimizing for time-in-app.
2.Why the algorithmic feed is making everyone miserable
The short-form video feed as it exists on most platforms today is a content delivery mechanism designed to hold attention as long as possible. The algorithm learns what keeps you from putting your phone down — outrage, social comparison, parasocial dependency, that specific genre of videos where someone films themselves reacting to something for eight seconds — and serves you more of it.
There is no editorial judgment in this process. There is no one deciding that maybe the tenth video in a row about relationship drama is one too many. There is a model that found it works, and it keeps working until you close the app, which you do slightly later than you intended.
Kookey replaces that with a list of live rooms. The feed ends when the live rooms end. There is no infinite scroll because there is no infinite supply of live activity to fill it.
3.Chronological versus ranked ordering
The feed ordering approach has not been finalized. A chronological feed sorts by recency. A ranked feed reorders rooms using signals like how many people are already in them or how many of your followers started them. Kookey has not confirmed which approach it will ship, or whether users will be able to switch between them.
Before launch, we will explain how the feed works, what signals it uses if any, and what controls are available. We will not describe the feed as unranked and then quietly rank it.
4.Following people, not content
The feed prioritizes rooms started by people you follow. The idea is that you are interested in spending time with those people, not in seeing content that performed well with accounts whose taste resembles yours. Rooms from accounts you do not follow may appear if the room is public and relevant, but we will explain how that works before it ships.
5.What is available today
The hosted social service is in development with a target release in Q1 2027. There is no feed on this website. Follow systems, room discovery, feed ordering, and notification controls will be documented when the service is confirmed.