Subscribe
Sign in
p/hacker-yogiWhere Technology meets Spirituality .
Start new thread
Samanyou Garg

TLDR This - Automatically summarize any article or webpage in a click.

by•

TLDR This is a web app (+ chrome extension) that can take a painfully long piece of text and sum it up into five key bullet points using the power of NLP.
Spend less time reading counterproductive stuff and more on doing valuable work.

Add a comment

Replies

Best
Boris Tseytlin
Tried on a few articles. The app didn't output anything useful at all.
Samanyou Garg
Maker
@boris_tseytlin Thank you for your feedback. I am sorry to hear it didn't work on the articles you tried. We use a version of the TextRank algorithm to rank each of the text sentences in the article and then select the top 5 most representative sentences from the article. I am not an expert in this field so not too sure if that's the best way. Just started with NLP a few days back and wanted to test it out by developing a small application. As I continue to work on this, I will keep implementing new methods like Deep Learning based summarization to improve the result. I have personally tried it on a number of articles and it seems to provide good results. Also, I have received feedback from a number of users who say that it worked for them. But yes there are some articles where it fails to give accurate results since the "article summarisation" technology is still in its development stage. We will try to improve it in the next version. Thank you again for your feedback.
Samanyou Garg
Maker
Hi everyone 👋 I am delighted to share my new project 📚"TLDR This" with you guys here on ProductHunt. Problem 🤔: There's so much content out there but too little time to read. So many times, it happens that there's a long article that we're interested in, but we don't really feel like scouring through it to extract relevant information from it. Hence, I created "TLDR This" to help you navigate relevant content quickly and easily, without having to read the whole thing. Steps to get cracking - 1. Copy and paste either the URL or the text of the article you'd like summarized. 2. Press the "Process Text" button, and you are good to go. TLDR This also comes with a chrome extension, allowing you to summarize any webpage at the click of a button. How to use the chrome extension? Just click the “tl;dr” button in Chrome's toolbar on a webpage which you'd like summarized and within a few seconds, you'll get the < 5 sentence summary right there. Please let me know if you have any feedback/suggestions. Thanks a lot 🙏
Drew Dunn
@samanyou_garg Hey this is very cool, haven't had too much time to dive in but am very excited to jump in. And congrats on a great launch. Is this your first launch?
Samanyou Garg
Maker
@drew_dunn1 Thank you very much. Please test it out and let me know if you face any problems.
Kevin Smith
@samanyou_garg dude I hate to say this but there are at least 5-10 same extensions out there. What the point of making another one?
Samanyou Garg
Maker
@kpmg_canada Hi, sure there are extensions that do it but I personally couldn't find any extension that was suitable for my needs. The chrome extensions that are currently present either require the user to register/login or subscribe to a paid plan after some number of requests or fail to work on some websites or require you to select the text manually. I recently got started with NLP. So I created this app to create a real-world application in order to test my understanding of the same. This is just the initial version. As I continue to work on this, I will keep implementing new methods like Deep Learning based summarization to improve the result. Thank you very much for taking the time to use the app and providing your feedback.
Julie Chabin
TL;DR it looks cool
Samanyou Garg
Maker
@syswarren We are glad that you liked it. Thank you very much for taking the time to use the app and providing your feedback.
Travis Fischer
Abstractive > extractive text summarization, though it is significantly harder to get right.
Samanyou Garg
Maker
@fisch0920 Hi, yes you are totally right. I implemented extractive text summarization to quickly implement the app. Might try to implement an abstractive method in a future update.
Hanuman
Amazing app!
Samanyou Garg
Maker
@hanuman Thanks a lot.
Aazar Ali Shad
How do you know what’s important? It worked good though
Samanyou Garg
Maker
@aazar_ali_shad We are glad that you liked it. We use TextRank text summarization.
Eileen Campbell
Love the concept, but after trying to summarize 3 different articles from 3 different sources, I got nothing meaningful. Please keep working on this, as it has fabulous potential.
Samanyou Garg
Maker
@eileenatreidcampbell We are glad that you liked it. The problem of article summarization is still in its development stage. I will keep implementing better methods as they are released. Thank you very much for taking the time to use the app and providing your feedback.
scott ashley
It is so simple to use it. Nothing to jump through the hoops to get result. just one click then voila! great job.
Samanyou Garg
Maker
@scott_ashley We are glad that you liked it. Thank you very much for taking the time to provide your valuable feedback.
Tomi Gelo
Thanks for sharing this, there is definitely a need for time savers like this one!
Samanyou Garg
Maker
@tgel0 We are glad that you liked it. Thank you very much for taking the time to provide your valuable feedback.
Jennifer Robinson
Perfect for reddit, lol. Might want to post about it there. A common complaint from its users are that articles are too long.
Samanyou Garg
Maker
@jenniferrrrrooo That's very true! Thank you very much for taking the time to use the app.
Ihor Levenets 🇺🇦
Chrome Extension Solution is a cool idea, gonna check it out!
Samanyou Garg
Maker
@ihor_levenets1 Thanks a lot. Do let me know if you face any problems.
Makarand Hazarika
I have been looking for something like this! I just hope the creator makes an extension for Firefox too.
Samanyou Garg
Maker
@makarand We are glad that you liked it. I have ported it to Firefox. Will publish the link soon. Thank you very much for taking the time to use the app and providing your feedback.
Samanyou Garg
Maker
@makarand Hi! We have added the link for Firefox extension. Please check it out and provide your feedback. Thank you!
Joseph Maxim (@josephmxm)
So whats the difference between your app and @whizzzoe 's I Lazy To Read
Samanyou Garg
Maker
@whizzzoe @josephmaxim Hi, The goal is the same - article summarization. I got to know about I Lazy To Read when I was halfway done with the development. It's a really nice project. I recently got started with NLP and created TLDR This as a side project to build a quick application of the same. Although there are some web apps out there, that allow you to summarize an article, there really isn't any useful browser extension that does the job well. TLDR This comes with accompanying chrome and firefox extensions plus it also allows you to enter text directly instead of article URL. So it can be used on offline text as well. Thank you again for your feedback.
Lucas Tostée
Exactly what I need 👍
Samanyou Garg
Maker
@lucastostee We are glad that you liked it. Thank you very much for taking the time to use the app and providing your feedback.
Sze Jun King
Been done before
yoav fael
Great Idea, worked pretty well for me, good luck!
Samanyou Garg
Maker
@yoav__fael We are glad that you liked it. Thank you very much for taking the time to use the app and providing your feedback.
Damjanski
<3 <3 <3
Samanyou Garg
Maker
@damjanski We are glad that you liked it. Thank you very much for taking the time to use the app and providing your feedback.
EightyEight Eyes
The perfect app for the humanity of the 21st century, lol.
Samanyou Garg
Maker
@eightyeighteigh We are glad that you liked it. Thank you very much for taking the time to use the app and providing your feedback.
Dani M Vijay
Good job done. But I feel like consistent polishing needed to make this more efficient. What about adding a like and dislike button next to each line, so that readers can rate the summary if needed. This data can be used to validate and optimise the algorithm.
Samanyou Garg
Maker
@arecenello I will try to port it to Safari soon.