tl;dr

Onboarding process was awesome and effective. I went to the site meaning to just check it out but the process was almost too easy and now I have the tldr bookmarklet just sitting…

Best. Bookmarklet. Tutorial. Ever. Thank you. I, too, needed something like this forever. Every time I see a long article, I complain about the lack of a tl;dr. Unfortunately, I…

I'd have read the description of the tool, thought 'eh, cool', and clicked away if it weren't for the absurdly cute instructions for installing the bookmarklet. Probably one of…

I love the few summaries I could read, it is to the point. If you can find writers, it could become a must have

This is great, I regularly wish something like this existed. Almost every interesting article / blog has a terrible signal to noise ratio.

I was starting to work on almost this exact same tldr concept recently but decided to shift to another project instead. It's great to see another group of people tackling the…

Lovely drag/drop bookmarklet tutorial w/ animated arrow and helpful prompts and everything. Though, really, I would like to try the service out without having to drag/drop a…

Yes I agree. Once I found that I had to install a bookmarklet into my browser in order to try it, I just exited the site altogether. A demo without having to login/install…

Exactly. Especially if a site wants to get a permanent spot in my browser, it must demonstrate its value upfront. And without some good examples this is not going to happen.

Best. Bookmarklet. Tutorial. Ever. Thank you. I, too, needed something like this forever. Every time I see a long article, I complain about the lack of a tl;dr. Unfortunately, I…

This is really cool & solves a problem for me. I installed the bookmarklet and am looking forward to using it. I see that you are relying on the community to summarize pages &…

I think the idea's really neat, but at the same time I'm concerned about the effect that things like this have on the attitude of our culture. A large part of critical reading is…

As a user, how do I know that the summary I'm reading is an accurate reflection of the article? Do you have any plans to validate the tl;dr entries? Have you thought about a…

It may be better implemented as a firefox/chrome extension? Given that the majority of sites will not likely have a tl;dr I am unlikely to click the bookmarklet every time I open…

That's a good idea! Have you thought about making Chrome/Firefox extensions as well to interface with your service? I feel like the extensions would be more integrated and…

I really like the bookmarklet intro, but my concern with a bookmark is it's static. If it was an extension, it could change to show if there's already a tl;dr present. The web is…

Nice site, really nice UI with the arrow pointing to the bookmark bar. A change in the color of the tl;dr; bookmark when there's a bookmark available would really go a long way!…

Yeah, I was expecting something on the homepage like a top 10 list of popular tl;drs that I could try out without doing anything else first.

Pretty cool. You might want to put a list of the day's top tl;drs on your landing page, or def. under "want some". When you roll over the title of the story, you get a floating…

I bounced without trying it because I couldn't figure out what it was going to actually give me. I would have been more likely to sign up or drag the button to my toolbar if you…

This is great! Love the cute effect when dragging! I think the content of TL;DR should be in Wiki a'la StackOverflow, so people can refine it together. And probably showing a…

I meant allow everyone to contribute and have an up/down voting system that also does not require login (based on cookies / ip maybe? dunno)

Interesting idea. Would love to know how you guys will tackle the tl;dr generation issue—how to incentivize people to contribute, etc. This is definitely a very interesting…

Best. Bookmarklet. Tutorial. Ever. Thank you. I, too, needed something like this forever. Every time I see a long article, I complain about the lack of a tl;dr. Unfortunately, I…

Any ideas how to make money out of it? I thought of a similar idea after developing an addiction to reading every article on HN in fear I'm missing something that will change the…

Slight tangent, there was a kid (maybe 15?) a while back doing an automated content summariser for mobile and he was all over the tech sites for being incredible after getting an…

That's one way to approach this problem, and there are a couple companies trying it, most notably Summly. We believe that software-made summaries are not good enough, which is…

Isn't this what gis.to does?

We took a whack at this problem (agree it is big issue worth solving) last year with Streamliner, http://www.streamliner.co. (Hint: ignore the video-specific text and paste in a…

Good luck with the site. I had a similar idea, also implemented as a bookmarklet (here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2909309 which later mutated to http://noteplz.com/).…

This is really cool & solves a problem for me. I installed the bookmarklet and am looking forward to using it. I see that you are relying on the community to summarize pages &…