Bullets.tech is a place where we publish summaries of articles for science enthusiasts. Summaries have up to 5 bullet points and their task is to list the most important issues raised in a given article.
@rrhoover Hi! Yes, we are summarizing articles "manually". I don’t think that we need hundreds of them every week to make our service useful. Just the most popular/important from sources we trust.
@rrhoover@dawid_andrzejewski Do you think it's scalable? Why not use a community concept and ask the readers to voluntarily commit to summarize the articles on daily basis. I can commit to do 1 article a day and this would be really. You can make us choose the articles on category basis.
@rrhoover@invinciblesaad It isn't scalable when you think about this project like about Twitter for article abstracts, and that was not my aim :)
Initially, the catchphrase for Bullets.tech was "Notes for busy *curious* minds".
I wanted to create a feed in which those curious about the world could read all of the published summaries. The first one is about bacteria which can help create plastics out of plants. The next one is going to concern a diet and its influence on Alzheimer disease. The subsequent one is going to feature an invention that blocks nearly every sound.
There is no option to change to a category that's of interest to you. Because of that, you expand your horizons :)
This may change in the future - I might introduce categories, user accounts, etc. I need some time to think about it. I will try to reach you out in a few days.
To be honest, I had no idea bullets.tech will be so popular. Before publishing at Product Hunt, I had been publishing bullets for a week on my Facebook, I received an average of 0.5 like and 6 people joined my Facebook group (including my two sisters). 😂🤷♂️
Since starting at Product Hunt:
🎯 We were awarded the #3 Product of the Day at Product Hunt
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✍️ Bullets.tech was covered at https://www.oreilly.com/ and https://boingboing.net/
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I love the idea and you should have a Twitter bot. First step could contain a link to the post. In the future maybe two or three bullet points could be teased in a generated image.
We already generate images for open graph preview. To be honest, I have created a Twitter account for this purpose earlier, but I had problems with images. In a preview, on mobile devices, you won't see text clearly.
I tried two versions:
(current)
(old)
I'll work on the first one. It looks spammy for me, but there must be visual/text info that not all bullets were displayed.
The "funny" one (second), is terrible when the article says something about, for example, diseases.
The second idea was creating a stream of connected tweets.
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