Portland, OR, September 17, 2026 — Why scroll for bad news when you can spin for it? DoomSpin (www.doomspin.com), a new web app from independent developer Fred Knack, replaces the endless feed with a glowing casino wheel loaded with the day’s most alarming headlines. Readers spin, land on a story, and vote on how scary it is. The scarier the crowd finds a story, the more often it comes back around.
Every day the wheel is populated with fresh bad news across six categories — climate, economy, health, tech, geopolitics, and weird — and loads the wheel. Each visitor gets a different twelve-slice mix drawn from the current pool, and once a story has been landed on it rotates out for something unseen. The result is a doomscroll with a beginning, a middle, and a satisfying “ding.”
Prophets of Doom
A second mode swaps the categories for people. The wheel’s twelve slices become the technology leaders and investors who have the most to say about the end of the world, among them Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Michael Burry, and Nouriel Roubini. Land on one and you get their most recent public warning: about AI, jobs, markets, or civilization generally.
Every quotation must be found verbatim on the cited news article before it is allowed on the wheel. Quotes that cannot be verified are held in review and never shown. The site also watches for warnings from each figure’s orbit, including employees, executives, and investors, and files them under the person’s slice.
Vote, share, and keep score
Each landing opens a card with the headline, a one-line summary, a link to the source, and a skull meter from “mild dread” to “we are so cooked.” Votes feed straight back into the odds. A running Doom Index ranks the week’s most feared stories and the prophets whose warnings scared people most, and every story and quote has a shareable page with its own card for social feeds and messaging apps.
“I kept catching myself refreshing bad news like it was a slot machine, so I built the slot machine,” said Fred Knack, DoomSpin’s creator. “It’s a joke about how we consume news, but its functionality is real. When standing in line or doing anything with time to kill, just DoomSpin the time away until the apocalypse.”
DoomSpin is free and requires no account. Spin the Wheel of Doom today!
Contact
Fred Knack
info@fredknack.com
www.doomspin.com
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