TLDR This
Productivity
article summarizer
SHOW HN2020
How HN took it
5 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 16 critical, out of 36 comments about the project. Thread score -0.26.
Execution: 1 for, 13 againstIdea: 0 for, 2 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Summaries work well on some articles, including Dutch and Finnish
From 2 comments
Awesome product! I was quite surprised at how good it summarized Dutch articles as well. Are you planning to launch an API anytime soon?
RubenvanE on HNThis thing understands Finnish? Very strange. TLDR from this was quite excellent: https://sarastuslehti.com/2020/03/12/koronaviruksen-kayra-on-murskattava/
timonoko on HN
Quick and useful for some articles
From 2 comments
Works great!
radheradhe on HNnot bad, not bad
kindly_fo on HN
Objections
Summaries are basic and miss key points on many articles
From 3 comments
I really want to like this. My points - 1. From the articles I tried, the summaries seem to be very basic. They don't seem to capture the essential points of the articles it is…
thunderbong on HNI did try to run it four times, and in each case the result was semi-random: it looks like picking 4 random sentences that open paragraphs. There was not a single case when I…
stared on HNI love the idea. The implementation did not produce the expected results ( article shown on HN -…
A4ET8a8uTh0 on HN
Performs poorly on technical and long articles
From 3 comments
While I didn't have high hopes to get a summary of a technical paper, since I spend a good chunk of time every week reading some related to exploits and mitigations for a podcast…
kdbg on HNI tried this on three of my own articles. It worked very poorly. There’s a lot of room for improvement before asking people to pay for it IMO. I may try my hand at writing one…
elliotec on HNhttps://p.migdal.pl/2020/03/02/types-tests-typescript.html https://p.migdal.pl/2017/07/23/dating-for-nerds.html…
stared on HN
Basic and advanced summaries often look the same or the advanced is still weak
From 2 comments
While I didn't have high hopes to get a summary of a technical paper, since I spend a good chunk of time every week reading some related to exploits and mitigations for a podcast…
kdbg on HNIf the Basic Summarizer is meant to convince me to sign up for the Advanced Summarizer, that's not gonna happen with the former providing unconvincing results.
jstummbillig on HN
Summarization may spread misinformation and reduce understanding
From 1 comment
Is there any thought put into considering if this type of service is actually beneficial? Of course on it's face it seems nice that it saves us time. But it's no secret that the…
txcwpalpha on HN
Requests
Launch an API
From 2 comments
Awesome product! I was quite surprised at how good it summarized Dutch articles as well. Are you planning to launch an API anytime soon?
RubenvanE on HNWhile I didn't have high hopes to get a summary of a technical paper, since I spend a good chunk of time every week reading some related to exploits and mitigations for a podcast…
kdbg on HN
Better results on technical content
From 1 comment
https://p.migdal.pl/2020/03/02/types-tests-typescript.html https://p.migdal.pl/2017/07/23/dating-for-nerds.html…
stared on HN
Questions
How does the summarizer work?
From 1 comment
How does this work?
sidechaining on HN
Is there a paying customer base?
From 1 comment
Interesting stuff. Have you succeeded in getting paying customers for such a service? I've seen some similar free alternatives online, i.e. resoomer, smmry
personjerry on HN
Alternatives named
SMMRY
From 2 comments
I first heard about this from the autotldr bot on Reddit [1] which uses a similar service SMMRY [2]. The SMMRY page points out some extra NLP-related grunt work in addition to…
bobbiechen on HNI really want to like this. My points - 1. From the articles I tried, the summaries seem to be very basic. They don't seem to capture the essential points of the articles it is…
thunderbong on HN
Resoomer
From 1 comment
Interesting stuff. Have you succeeded in getting paying customers for such a service? I've seen some similar free alternatives online, i.e. resoomer, smmry
personjerry on HN
Basic word-frequency summarizer algorithms
From 1 comment
Nice landing page. If you Google "summarizer", you will find dozens of similar services for free. The mechanism behind it is very simple. A couple a years ago I built one from…
blobster on HN