Why I’m building this

I’m a fourth-generation writer, the daughter of screenwriters. I grew up in a house where stories mattered, where a film wasn’t just something on in the background. So I’ve never wanted to avoid difficult movies. I’ve wanted to watch them on my own terms.

When I was fifteen I started a youth mental health nonprofit, and I kept running into the same thing: people who love film, sitting through a scene they weren’t ready for, with no warning it was coming. The tools that existed told you that something happened in a movie. None of them told you when, and none of them helped in the moment. You could look a title up before pressing play, and then you were on your own.

Skipit is that missing piece. It gives you a heads-up before a scene, and you decide: skip it, or read a short summary and keep going. You choose what counts as difficult for you, category by category, because nobody else gets to decide that.

I want to be honest about where we are. Skipit launches with a small catalog, not thousands of titles, and the detection still gets things wrong. I’d rather tell you that than oversell it. What I care about is building something that helps as many people as possible, and the fastest way there is with the people who need it telling us what’s missing.

That’s the whole invitation. Join the Discord, mark a scene we missed, tell me what’s broken. I read what comes in.