BOOMSCROLLING / WHY WE MADE IT
You were going to scroll anyway.
Might as well come back with something worth saying. That’s why we made BoomScrolling.
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The man in our ad is undefeated in arguments he has in the shower. Fourteen wins. No losses. Nobody else was there.
He has things to say. He’s been preparing them for years. Then he opens a reply box, writes half a sentence and decides to see what somebody else thinks.
I like this guy. I want him to have a way in.
Give the habit something to do.
A lot of advice about scrolling ends with putting the phone down. Fair enough. Sometimes that’s the right answer.
But there’s also something good in a feed you actually enjoy. Strange machinery. A scientist explaining an animal. Somebody who has spent thirty years thinking about a thing you discovered eleven seconds ago. And a man being very confidently wrong about it.
You’ve developed taste. You know what interests you, what’s funny, what doesn’t add up. I’m interested in what happens when a little of that judgment becomes something of your own.
That’s the idea behind BoomScrolling. Read a real post. Consider a suggested response. Change it until you’d put your name on it, or throw it away.
A draft is something to disagree with.
A blank box asks you to produce a thought on command. A draft gives you a much easier job: “Well, I wouldn’t say that.”
Good. What would you say?
Here’s a prepared example in the early feed. A post about lunar payload capacity describes a proposed increase to twenty tonnes. One suggested response:
Twenty tonnes to the Moon. At some point the packing list stops being “what can we leave behind?” and starts being “can we bring the forklift?”
You might keep the forklift. You might have a serious question about how they’ll unload it. You might know enough about lunar logistics to find the whole suggestion irritating. Now there’s somewhere to start.
I don’t want everybody sounding like our ads. A useful response could be funny, technical, straightforward or about your business. The choice matters more than the joke.
What’s actually here.
The early version is free. You can open a prepared selection of real-source posts without signing in, edit responses and continue to X to review and send them yourself. Sign in with ChatGPT when you want to save your drafts. No card required.
The starter selection isn’t a live personalized feed. Nothing posts automatically. ChatGPT sign-in saves your workspace; it doesn’t hand us your private chats or connect your X account.
We’re still finding out which suggestions people want to keep, where the words feel wrong and what makes somebody comfortable enough to say something. We haven’t established that this helps people spend less time scrolling, get more followers or make money. Those would take evidence.
The first question is smaller: did you leave with one thing you actually wanted to say?
The door is open.
We’re keeping this small while the first version takes shape. There’s no pretend velvet rope. You can walk in.
Keep something, fix something, reject the lot. Then tell me what you threw away. That’s useful too.