folkways

give folk a skill.

skills are things folk can do for you on a schedule: watch flight prices, send your morning brief, keep your reading streak alive. add one and folk starts texting you about it. some come with their own little app, cloned just for you with your own private data.

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Calorie tracker

Snap a photo of your plate and folk logs the calories and macros. Comes with its own app, daily rings, weekly charts, weight trend, and you can just text what you ate instead.

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Cheapest taxi finder

Tell folk where you're going and it checks taxi and rideshare prices for you - Uber, Lyft, Curb taxi, Waymo, and RideYellow - then sends a one-tap link to book the cheapest one.

Flight finder

Tell folk where you're flying and it searches live airfare across airlines, powered by Soar, then sends a tight ranked shortlist with real prices. Ask it to book and it hands you a secure Soar checkout.

Nag me until it's done

Tell folk a task and it bugs you on repeat until you say it's done. The friend who won't let it slide.

sunday · 5:30pm

Price & restock watch

Tell folk what you're hunting, sneakers, tickets, a flight, a listing, and it watches the web and texts you the moment it moves.

Should I send this?

Paste the text you're about to send and get an honest read before it goes out: what it actually says, how it'll land, and a tighter version in your voice. Folk never sends it for you.

Am I crazy, or...?

Show folk the conversation and get a straight answer on whether your read is fair. An outside opinion from someone with no stake, plus an optional weekly note on the patterns you can't see yourself.

Say the hard thing

For the conversation you've been putting off. Folk helps you work out what you actually want to say, rehearses it with you, then checks in afterwards to see how it went.

Does he like me?

Send the screenshots and folk reads them back to you like your most honest friend: what he actually meant, whether you're reading into it, and what to do next. Not a horoscope, an honest opinion.

Daily bible verse

Your verse every morning, a reading plan that remembers where you left off, and a gentle evening check-in. Comes with its own app: a full bible reader, a prayer journal, and a map of the churches near you. Zero guilt-tripping.

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Collection hunter

The sold-out toy your kid wants, hunted for you. folk watches the stores, texts you the second it's back, and keeps a sticker-book app of what they have, what they want, and what's being hunted.

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Workout accountability partner

A daily "did you train?" check-in that actually holds the line, streaks with receipts, and a Sunday recap. Show up and get hyped, skip and hear about it.

Study lock-in sprints

A daily lock-in nudge, timed study sprints with a "did you finish?" check, and a Sunday plan for the week's deadlines.

Wind-down / phone away

An escalating bedtime enforcer: a heads-up an hour before, the shutdown call at bedtime, and a last call that doesn't take "Bro" for an answer.

Wake-up call

An actual phone call from folk every morning, with your day's first move ready. The alarm you can't swipe away.

Habit streak keeper

All your habits in one daily check-in, streaks tracked, wins celebrated, misses forgiven.

Daily brief

A short morning brief: weather, your calendar, and top news.

Job hunt copilot

Fresh matching roles every morning, an application tracker folk keeps for you, and follow-up nudges after interviews.

Daily mood check-in

One question every evening, a running journal folk keeps for you, and a Sunday reflection on how the week actually went.

Birthday & dates keeper

Tell folk the birthdays and dates that matter once, it remembers forever and preps you the morning of, with a heads-up the day before.

Guided bible reading plan

A structured reading plan that lives in your texts, today's passage every morning, your place always held, zero guilt when you fall behind.

Daily language drop

One phrase a day in the language you're learning, with real usage, not textbook filler. Streaks kept, quizzes on Sundays.

Sunday meal plan + grocery list

Every Sunday: a simple week of meals matched to how you actually eat, plus the grocery list to make it real.

Daily news digest

A once-a-day digest of the stories that matter to you, your topics, tight summaries, zero doomscrolling.

Canvas deadline guardian

Folk watches Canvas so nothing sneaks up, a daily due-soon digest and a Sunday map of the week's assignments.

Savings goal buddy

Name the thing you're saving for and folk keeps the running total, weekly check-ins, and impulse-purchase gut-checks.

Morning & evening prayer

A steady daily prayer rhythm, morning and evening prompts in your tradition, with folk holding the rhythm when life gets loud.

Sunday week-ahead planner

Every Sunday evening: your whole week's calendar laid out, conflicts flagged, and the free windows worth protecting.

Screen time guard

Interrupts the scroll during the day and keeps a clean-day streak you can actually see.

Money weekly recap

Every Sunday: what you actually spent, where it went, and the subscriptions quietly creeping, from your real bank data.

Morning task triage

Every weekday morning folk reads your task list and hands you the three that actually matter today.

Needs-reply inbox sweep

Every weekday evening: the emails still waiting on YOUR reply, plus who's gone quiet on you, with drafts one tap away.

Gratitude journal

Three good things every night, kept in a journal folk writes for you, plus a Sunday look-back at the week's best moments.

Gym honesty mode

Folk checks your location before asking about the gym, so "yeah I went" only works if you actually went.

daily · 9:30am

Package tracker

Forward folk an order confirmation or tracking number and it texts you the updates that matter, out for delivery, delivered, stuck.

Daily Quran

An ayah every morning with a short reflection, and a gentle evening check-in on your recitation. No guilt, ever.

Prediction market morning line

Three genuinely interesting prediction markets every morning, the odds, the why, and what would move them.

Breakup recovery companion

A daily check-in from someone in your corner while it hurts, that fades out as you heal. No toxic positivity.

My team today

Game-day briefings and final scores for your team, texted like a friend who never misses a match.

Water check

Counts your glasses through the day and keeps the streak, so you actually hit your target.

Instagram post watch

Get a text the moment an account you care about posts, folk checks every few hours, quiet unless there's something new.

Medication & supplement keeper

Doses on time, confirmed one by one, with a streak and an honest weekly recap.

Skincare AM & PM

Two fixed check-ins a day, separate streaks for morning and night.

Ticket hunter

Name the artists and teams you want to see, folk tracks all-in ticket prices and newly announced dates, and texts you when one lands under your number.

Newsletter digest

All your newsletters read for you overnight and delivered as one tight morning text, the signal without the inbox.

Excel budget tracker

A budget spreadsheet folk maintains for you in Excel, text your spending in plain words, get a weekly rollup with the sheet always current.

exercise-picker

text a muscle group such as lats, chest, rear delts, quads, shoulders, or biceps and get practical gym exercise options with concise form cues, tailored toward building a stronger v-taper

daily · 7:30am

Weather + Calendar Outfit Brief

A concise morning briefing that checks the weather where you are and at today’s calendar destinations, then suggests what to wear.

Canva design studio

Ask folk for a flyer, invite, or post and it builds the design in your Canva, plus a weekly creative prompt to keep you making.

Follow-up chaser

Tell folk who you're waiting on and it reminds you to chase them, every morning it checks what's still hanging.

Meeting prep brief

Every weekday morning: who you're meeting, why it matters, and what to walk in knowing. Never get caught flat again.

daily · 8:30am

The Office Quote of the Day

Get one accurately sourced quote from The Office every day, with character and episode context.

Chore rotation

Rotates the household jobs, nudges the one that's due, and lets you push it once.

Group bet bookie

Folk runs the group's play-money bets, weekly matchups, tracked brackets, and receipts when someone talks big.

Strava training recap

Every Monday: your real training week from Strava, mileage, streaks, PRs celebrated properly.

Salah times

The five daily prayer times for your city, delivered as each one comes in.

daily · 9:30am

Daily Sports Inspiration

A daily inspirational moment from real, sourceable sports history, personalized to each installer's chosen delivery time and inspiration focus.

Calendly day-ahead

Every evening: tomorrow's Calendly bookings, who booked, when, and context on each, so you never open a call cold.

Daily US Market Morning Brief

A concise, source-attributed US stock-market morning brief delivered daily at 9:00 AM Asia/Kolkata.

Daily Crypto Market Briefing

A daily 8:00 AM Asia/Kolkata crypto market briefing using live market, derivatives, sentiment, news, and event data, with liquidity safeguards and clear sourcing.

Linear morning digest

Every weekday morning, summarize your assigned Linear issues.

GitHub PR watch

A daily summary of pull requests waiting on your review.

build one, get paid.

need a skill that doesn't exist yet? text folk: "teach yourself to …" and it builds the skill just for you, with its own app if the job calls for one, and a share link. creators earn $10 cash for every new person their link brings who subscribes, plus $1/month for every subscriber running it.

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