Abstracts delivers abstracts of articles written by real people ... real people? Sounds cool. Here's an example of one abstract -https://addabstract.com/abstract...
Cool idea. I just did the sign up and started to follow the Ben Evans abstract account. Looks like you have a plan here with these separate Twitter accounts, not sure what it is yet, but I like it! (Hint: Please explain here!)
Please connect Instapaper, too :)
Overall, this is sorely needed. My use case is thus: I've stopped reading TechCrunch, HackerNews, etc. more than maybe once a week because it just. takes. too. long. 2-3 sentence summaries as a filtering mechanism would actually *increase* my readership because I wouldn't be afraid of jumping into an article and getting lost in info I don't need, realising later on that I just wasted my time.
TechCrunch and the rest of the tech news media crowd unfortunately didn't do what I would have expected them -- as TECH media -- to do, which is re-think article reading for the tech generation. Moments is a genuine competitor here -- bite-sized info for us to scan and "get" before diving in. I'm not sure how Moments works yet (they haven't released in Japan yet 😭) but this looks like it could fit well as a source of content for them.
Excited to see how this plays out! Hit me up if you want some more detailed feedback as a user.
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