Summary.io
Productivity
news summarizer
SHOW HN2013
30points
40comments
#782of 1,739 in 2013
Top 45%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
1 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 9 critical, out of 19 comments about the project. Thread score -0.30.
Idea: 0 for, 5 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Good learning experience and useful for finding articles to read
From 2 comments
Site owner here. A few thoughts: - HN has been pretty hostile towards Summly and how it is "trivial" or "basic" to create an app that summarizes the news. I've always wanted to…
samsnelling on HNDanso, You just opened up an entire new wave of thinking in my head with this line I'd rather see something like, how many popular users on Twitter (i.e. not spambots) have…
samsnelling on HN
Tech news feed is good
From 1 comment
Needs an RSS feed
nathanb on HN
Objections
Summarization of news adds little beyond headlines and meta-descriptions
From 2 comments
I think this is a cool project to undertake but yes, I would group myself among those who think Summly was trivial. Not in a technical sense, but in a do-people-need-it-sense?…
danso on HNDanso, You just opened up an entire new wave of thinking in my head with this line I'd rather see something like, how many popular users on Twitter (i.e. not spambots) have…
samsnelling on HN
Fair use concerns with summarizing others' content
From 2 comments
Oh, come on now. You can be honest here... you want $30M like Summly & Wavii :) And maybe you should get it. The app looks very impressive. How does your program decide which…
hyperberry on HNHyperberry, You are on point with that comment! Actually all of the tech is my code (outside of scraping the image and a few packages via npm). To be honest, I worked pretty hard…
samsnelling on HN
Summaries are poor on some writing styles
From 1 comment
Danso, You just opened up an entire new wave of thinking in my head with this line I'd rather see something like, how many popular users on Twitter (i.e. not spambots) have…
samsnelling on HN
Requests
Add an RSS feed
From 1 comment
Needs an RSS feed
nathanb on HN
Summarize GitHub docs and non-news content
From 1 comment
I argue that this is largely already done by the content editors. Certainly for professional media outlets and therefore true of the mass market most summarizers are trying to…
petercooper on HN
Show social comments alongside articles
From 2 comments
I think this is a cool project to undertake but yes, I would group myself among those who think Summly was trivial. Not in a technical sense, but in a do-people-need-it-sense?…
danso on HNWell I'm glad you approve, because as a former content writer, I resent any one who thinks that their algorithm can provide more value than me ;) No really though, I think that…
danso on HN
Add voting on usefulness
From 1 comment
I'm interested in how you decide what sources to use, and then what subject to summarise, and then how each story is summarised. Please don't take this the wrong way but: it's a…
DanBC on HN
Questions
How are sources and sentences chosen
From 1 comment
I'm interested in how you decide what sources to use, and then what subject to summarise, and then how each story is summarised. Please don't take this the wrong way but: it's a…
DanBC on HN
Is it being made into an app
From 1 comment
do you plan on making this an app?
sharemywin on HN
Alternatives named
tldr.io
From 1 comment
Looks good but tldr.io exists. Feedly now has, what comes down to, a rating based on how many times an article was saved. It just needs a tldr.io layer over it.
jjsz on HN
Summly
From 2 comments
Site owner here. A few thoughts: - HN has been pretty hostile towards Summly and how it is "trivial" or "basic" to create an app that summarizes the news. I've always wanted to…
samsnelling on HNI think this is a cool project to undertake but yes, I would group myself among those who think Summly was trivial. Not in a technical sense, but in a do-people-need-it-sense?…
danso on HN
Percolate, The Brief, Hackernewsletter email digests
From 1 comment
“I currently read 10-15 news sites. I spend too much time reading the news. How do I get to the stories that really matter to me?” I don’t know about you, but for me, this…
Samuel_Michon on HN
thetechblock.com
From 1 comment
http://news.thetechblock.com does an outstanding job with relevant tech news in my opinion. It's hand curated, though. There's also no summary. UI is great.
bayan09 on HN