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Hunter

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I’ve been using Gem for a couple weeks now, and it’s been a fun way to curb my auto-pilot instincts of opening Reddit or social media whenever I pick up my phone. The app is really simple: open it up and read headlines + 3 key takeaways of the latest tech news. It’s very very fast and fluid, so you’ll quickly know whether or not this is for you. At first, I didn’t know if I’d consistently use Gem over my other news apps, but it’s so tempting to open up given how simple/rewarding it is to browse. It feeds my fidgeting fingers because everything is just a swipe or tap away, and I like that it takes me <10 seconds to feel baseline familiar with any story that pops up. I came across Gem because Ian and Prabhdeep have been building out in the open, pulling feedback from wherever they can get it and making improvements super quickly. This is definitely an app I’m going to keep an eye on (it hasn’t left my home screen yet!), especially as someone that consumes way too much tech news and often times in the most distracting way possible. Right now, Gem has a lot of potential and it’s already shaping up to be my favorite way to mindlessly binge content that’s actually useful to know. Congrats to @ianmendiola and @prabhdeep_gill for launching, and thanks for sharing Gem with me!

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2yr ago

Ian Mendiola

Gem

Maker

Thanks @danielha for hunting us! Hey all 👋 - One of the founders here. Feel free to ping me with any questions or feedback. It's still early days, we have a lot of exciting things on the roadmap coming soon. Look forward to hearing what you all think.

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2yr ago

yoshi

@danielha @ianmendiola Can you share a bit about your AI stack including what LLMs you use, any frameworks, ops tools, etc? Looks very cool!

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2yr ago

Ian Mendiola

Gem

Maker

@yoshichenu - Nothing fancy at the moment. Just some good old OpenAI gpt-3.5-turbo-16k. The hardest part was stitching a bunch of systems together and creating something reliable and elegant.

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2yr ago

Siddharth Jha

Been on the Gem TestFlight for a few weeks now. Find myself opening the app multiple times a day to quickly swipe through a dozen stories or so. It’s just something about the simplicity and fluidity of this app that makes me keep coming back day after day. Having been an avid user of reader apps over a decade, owing to the sheer number of writing pieces available now, I’ve struggled to get to “inbox zero” in my reading lists / queues etc. Over time, that has made me avoid or even dread opening them altogether. My queues just keep accumulating, like email... Enter Gem. I never dread opening Gem, because I know I could be in and out in 30s, a couple of mins or even 10 mins, with new knowledge and a feeling of satisfaction. It's kind of like skimming headlines but a lot more useful. We live in a new age where there's just too much news out there — Gem embraces that and proposes an intelligent, fun way to navigate this era. The AI recommendation engine has been getting progressively better from the day I started using Gem. And I've got a growing wishlist of features already.. TLDR: Gem is just plain dumb fun! You gotta try it to know.

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2yr ago

Prabhdeep Gill

Gem

Maker

@sidjha appreciate all the improvements you’ve helped us make to the product! We are going to build your feature request to “Send article to Gem for summary” soon to help you get through all your content :)

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2yr ago

André J

Just to clarify before I download: This is a RSS reader with AI summary?

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2yr ago

Prabhdeep Gill

Gem

Maker

@sentry_co almost.. you can’t subscribe to specific feeds, but we curate a bunch of tech and finance rss feeds and use AI to summarize.

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2yr ago

André J

@prabhdeep_gill Aha. Would love custom RSS with AI summary. that would solve the problem with google reader etc. Over subscription to feeds.

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2yr ago

Ashok Raju

Dropbox

@prabhdeep_gill @sentry_co Love this idea! Although I like the curation aspect too. Maybe custom RSS + subscribing to the apps built in curated feeds? Excited to see how this evolves.

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2yr ago

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