The feelya manifesto

Our opinions arrive ready-made.

This text tries to change your mind about one sentence. Before you read it, tell us how much you agree.

Written by Matteo and Andrea · October 2026 · 3-minute read

Before readingWhat I think, I thought myself.

The verdict comes before the question.

Open your phone and on any topic it’s all there already: the video with its take, the comments with theirs, the algorithm showing you people who agree with you. Before you ask yourself what you think, you’ve already read what everyone else thinks.

We get very fast at reacting and less and less used to stopping, doubting, changing our minds. AI writes the essay, the feed hands us the opinion. Nobody asks us anymore: what do you think?

We’re losing critical thinking, and we barely notice: a borrowed opinion feels like our own.

Where the loudest wins, nobody changes their mind.

Under a post, the most-liked comment is almost always the insult. Whoever brings a fact ends up at the bottom. You get a few lines to be right, and someone replies before you finish your sentence.

The people writing there aren’t worse than us. Those places reward whoever raises their voice, so we all raise ours.

So we built a place where the rules run the other way.

On the stone steps outside school, a girl stands and talks with her hands open; three classmates sitting on the steps listen.
Illustrative image

The rules of the table.

  1. One talks, the others listen.

    By voice, one at a time. When it’s your turn, nobody talks over you.

  2. You vote before and after.

    Nobody wins a debate. What counts is how many ideas moved.

  3. A point even for someone who thinks the opposite.

    If they say something that makes sense, you can give them a .

  4. Attack ideas, never people.

    Insults earn a strike. An opinion, on the other hand, can’t be reported.

  5. Talking stays free.

    No subscription gives you an edge at the table, and students never pay to vote.

Why now.

We want a place where at 16 you sit down with someone who thinks the opposite, and leave with one more question. Not one more enemy.

Example: while someone who thinks the opposite is speaking, you tap Good point.

Whoever is 16 today will run schools, companies and parties in ten years. If they don’t learn to doubt, listen and argue now, no AI will do it for them. Matteo is 16. feelya is the first step we’re taking for our generation.

We sign it.

I notice I have an opinion on everything without ever having really thought about it. feelya is the place I’d want to sit down myself.

Matteo16 · founder and CEO

Everything we build has to pass one question: does it help someone listen, or just reply faster?

Andreafounder and CTO
After reading

Now read the sentence again.

What I think, I thought myself.

If you believe it too, take a seat at the table.

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