Live feature
The matching engine
When you open an exchange, PodSwap does not show you a feed. It runs a scoring query over every queue waiting for engagement and serves you the single highest-scoring one. These are the weights.
- Exact bracket match
- +100,000
- Exact niche match
- +100
- Follower brackets
- 17
- Tie-break
- Oldest queue first
The weights, in full
An exact follower-bracket match adds 100,000. The nearest neighbouring bracket adds 90,000, stepping down 10,000 per rung to a floor of 10,000.
An exact niche match adds only 100, and a shared parent category adds 50. That ratio is deliberate: bracket outranks niche by three orders of magnitude.
A Pro account carries a +10 priority boost and a Max account +20. Against a bracket term of 100,000, a paid tier moves you within a bracket — it never moves you across one.
Seeded queues carry -10,000,000, so they only ever surface when nothing real is waiting.
Why bracket beats niche
A 400-follower account commenting on a post from a 2-million-follower account is not an exchange. Nothing comes back. Weighting bracket a thousand times above niche is how the engine refuses that trade on your behalf.
The practical effect surprises people: an account in a completely unrelated niche but your exact bracket will outrank a perfect niche match one rung away. That is the system working, not failing.
What you will never be shown
Your own accounts are excluded outright.
Any queue you have already engaged with is excluded permanently.
Any post you have already touched is excluded across every exchange — comment on a post and it disappears from your saves and shares queues too.
When those filters leave nothing, a fallback query runs with the bracket and niche terms stripped, so an exchange never dead-ends on an empty screen.
Common questions
How does PodSwap decide who sees my Instagram post?
A weighted query scores every waiting queue. An exact follower-bracket match is worth 100,000, a neighbouring bracket between 10,000 and 90,000, an exact niche match 100 and a shared category 50. The highest total wins, and ties go to the oldest queue.
Can I pay to be matched more often?
Pro adds +10 and Max +20 to your queue score. Because a bracket match is worth 100,000, a paid tier changes your position within your bracket and never lifts you above someone matched more closely. There is also no billing integration today — paid tiers are waitlist-only.
Will I see the same post twice?
No. Every queue and every post you have engaged with is excluded permanently, and the exclusion applies across all five exchanges.
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Every figure on this page comes from the running product. Where a number could not be verified it is not printed — see the methodology.
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