Summari

Summary: Your AI-powered reading assistant that summarizes text, so you can read the highlights first and then decide how to prioritize your time. 👋 Hi Product Hunt, I’m Ed, founder and CEO of Summari. Wanted to share a little bit about our journey and how Summari came to be 👇. We started as a payments company but didn’t find the traction we needed, so we shifted our focus. As we explored other ideas, the team constantly shared blogs, newsletters, and articles with each other. We all felt overwhelmed by the volume of content and the important information inside each piece that we wanted to know but didn’t always have time for 😖. We realized everyone has this problem. Too much to read, too little time. When we spoke with friends, we found everyone has a different way of dealing with information overload. Like emailing/texting yourself the link, saving it to Pocket or Instapaper, opening another browser tab, even printing the article out 😂 to read later. Ultimately everyone admitted they rarely read what they save for later. People save links because they feel the information trapped inside is important. And they’re right – information creates knowledge 🧠, which helps people to reach their full potential. As we explored solutions, we realized that super important jobs (with unlimited resources 💰) have a way to deal with this: executive summaries that simplify dense information to the key ideas. Like the President’s daily briefing, or how CEOs are sent updates. So, we had our thesis 📝 – people would find value in reading summaries of their daily content diet. We identified a handful of publications to summarize and created a community of (paid) students 👩‍🎓 from top universities to summarize that content as soon as it was published. Early users loved the highlights and how they could save time. The requests for additional publications came rolling in and we needed to find a way to scale. Our community had spent thousands of hours reading & summarizing articles in our very specific (and loved!) format, which was a unique AI training dataset. So we trained and tweaked an AI model 🤖 until it could summarize text to read exactly like that from our community. Our AI-powered reading assistant transforms text into its highlights, helping you filter through content so you can decide what is worth your limited time 🙌. It works via Chrome Extension, webapp, on mobile (iOS & Android), and also in Slack. We’re in the very early days, and are hard at work on speed and coverage improvements, but we’re super excited 🙏 to share the Summari Beta with the Product Hunt community. This product is the only thing we’ve found that stands a chance of fighting information overload, helping us to read more in our limited time and spend time only on what matters 🤓. Appreciate your support and feedback, Ed

Looks like an amazing product Ed! Congrats to the whole team for shipping this out there for knowledge hungry folks. The summarization quality is top-notch. Product of the month here you come!

Congrats on the launch! Especially the mobile app is something that can be useful for me.