Read an event in a minute
A card says what happened, who was involved, and what has changed since yesterday. No six paragraphs to read first.
Redwood City, California
A new way to understand the world
We turn the day's events into short cards that show what happened and where every claim came from.
What we're building
Trippy is a news reader. It runs on the web and on iPhone, and it lives at trippy.ai.
Every claim shows its source
You can see where something came from without leaving the card, so checking a story no longer takes nine open tabs and a guess about which outlet to trust.
Stories you can follow
Related cards collect into a story. Come back next week and the thread is still there, with the new parts marked.
Sensemakers
People who know the subject
Reporting does not always tell you everything worth knowing about an event. Sensemakers are people with real expertise in a field, approved individually and not by signing up, and they work in the open next to the feed.
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They publish their own events and stories, video included, from a studio built for it.
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They add takes: a short comment on an event, signed with their name and their field, sitting under the card it answers.
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Their badge travels with everything they publish, and their profile lists the fields they actually work in, so you can weigh a take against the person giving it.
Why we're building it
There is more text every month and less reason to trust any of it. Anyone can now produce a plausible article for almost nothing, and nobody has made it cheaper to check one.
We think structure helps. A claim that arrives with its source attached, next to the other claims about the same event, can be judged in seconds instead of researched. The reader can then spend their attention on what the news means, not on reconstructing what happened.
How we work
The five values we hire against.
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Be scrappy
We ship anyway.
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Be transparent
Problems get shared early, not once they are safe.
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Deliver results
You own the outcome, not the ticket.
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Collaborate
The best idea wins, whoever brought it.
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Think big
Better to aim at something big and fall short of it than to land something small.
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Work with us
We hire engineers in Redwood City. You will own a surface end to end and see people use it the same week.