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Six careful
decisions.

We say no to a lot. Here are the things we said yes to.

01Stumble

Serendipity, on tap.

Hit the Stumble button and Cubic surfaces something unexpected from the open web — a forgotten essay, a niche newsletter, a great writer you'd never have searched for. The internet's old discovery magic, without the slot-machine feed.

Stumble
ribbonfarm.com
nautil.us
aeon.co
thebrowser.com
waitbutwhy.com
alistapart.com
02Discovery

Blends are discovery without the algorithm.

Pre-made blends for specific moods and beats — Dev + Design, The Longform, Discoveries, Wolf of Wall St. Clone one. Edit its tags and sources. Save as your own.

Design & Build
Entertainment Stack
Wolf of Wall St.
03Read later

A pile for the long ones.

Tap once to mark anything for later — articles, links pasted from elsewhere, the eight tabs you keep meaning to close. Cubic strips them down to clean reader view and waits, quietly, until you're ready.

R
Read later4
76 min total
The Friendship Recession
theatlantic.com
22 min
On the Origin of Cubes
aeon.co
14 min
Why nothing works anymore
theverge.com
9 min
A field guide to slow internet
craigmod.com
31 min
04Bookmarks

Keep the good stuff. With your notes.

Save your favorite links as bookmarks and attach a note — why you saved it, what it reminds you of, the line you want to come back to. Searchable, taggable, exportable. A commonplace book, but for the web.

Bookmarked · ribbonfarm.com
The Premium Mediocre Life
Venkatesh Rao
NoteThe framing of "premium mediocre" explains so much about modern UI design. Use in the Q3 essay.
05Sync

iOS, Mac, web — all the same library.

Read on your phone in the morning, pick up mid-article on your laptop after lunch. Read position, highlights, and saved articles all sync through iCloud.

iOS
Web
06Export

It's your data. Take it anywhere.

One-click export of all your subscriptions as OPML. Migrate to any RSS reader, anytime, without losing a thing.

cubic-export-2026-04-22.opml
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<body>
<outline title="Design & Build">
<outline xmlUrl="aeon.co/feed" />
<outline xmlUrl="theverge.com/rss" />
... 23 more feeds
</outline>

What we decided not to build.

Algorithmic feed
Chronological only.
Recommendations from other users' reads
Editors only.
Social graph, likes, comments
Reading is solitary and we like it that way.
Notifications for unread posts
The inbox is quiet.
Streaks and gamification
You can stop reading for a week.
Trending sidebar
No such thing.