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p/jiffy-readerRead anything on the internet faster and more clearly!
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Chris Messina

Jiffy Reader - Read anything on the internet faster and more clearly

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Jiffy Reader is a browser extension that allows you to read any website faster. We do this by selectively bolding certain parts of some words since the bottleneck while reading is your eyes, not your brain.

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Ansh Nanda
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Good morning Product Hunt! 👋 First off, thank you for hunting us @chrismessina 🏆 Everyone has seen that picture of garbled text wherein certain letters were misplaced within a paragraph (https://www.independent.co.uk/ne...). It really shows us that our brain has an immense amount of processing power. We created Jiffy Reader last weekend as we saw that this trick floating around the internet of selectively highlighting certain parts of the the beginning of words to be able to read faster. Then we realized that this whole time our eyes were like crutches for our brain, slowing down our reading speed immensely! Just like how our brain can process when text is garbled, it really speeds up by almost "autocompleting" text after seeing only the first few letters. After releasing Jiffy Reader as an open source project (https://github.com/ansh/bionic-r...), that simply bolded half of each word, we got a lot of people contributing to our project. The open source community built most of it out, big kudos to them! So, we decided to package it up as a Chrome Extension so that anyone could easily download it. Initial feedback from people using this extension is massively positive! It has been especially useful for those who have a hard time focusing or those with ADHD*. The best way to get the most up-to-date version of Jiffy Reader is still by downloading it from Github (https://github.com/ansh/bionic-r...) but we have also launched it on the Chrome Web Store (https://chrome.google.com/websto...) and hope to release it for Firefox and Safari soon. If you like what we have created here, would really appreciate you to contribute to the Github project and/or download the extension from the Chrome Web Store! * We have not done any medical studies, this is just feedback from people via email and on various social networks.
Kate Kurshina
@chrismessina @anshnanda Great idea, as it will speed up and simplify the consumption of information) I will have to test it) Good luck with the launch! I vote for you!
Ângela Guedes
@chrismessina @anshnanda Read a lot about this recently, eager to try it myself! Thanks for the Chrome extension :)
Al Khan
@chrismessina @anshnanda Great implementation! It is a great tool to enhance the reading speed and having it as a Chrome extension makes it easier to access it. Looking forward to trying it out. Congratulations on the launch!
Ansh Nanda
Maker
@chrismessina @alcaan Thank you! Let me know your feedback.
Nikhil Agrawal
@chrismessina @anshnanda WOW, this feels like a having a nitro in my eyes to ready things so fast.....🚀
Ludwig
Don't want to be a showstopper, but this is the official implementation from the afaik "official" inventor: https://bionic-reading.com/. Note, that they also published a chrome extension. Otherwise great job! I love it when people are just starting to build products! :)
jhon alino
@ludwig_stumpp I'm super confused. is this the official version? because https://bionic-reading.com/ is showing a different chrome extension and I saw a lot of patent emphasis on that site. would this be a patent infringement ?
jhon alino
@ludwig_stumpp reason I ask is that this Jiffy Reader works better for me than the one on bionic-reading.com
Ludwig
AFAIK bionic-reading is the original company behind it. According to the statement, the inventor spent a lot of time researching this, also in official studies. I am not a law expert, so I don't know what the legal consequences are. At best, the creators of this extension here somehow find a way to collaborate with the original author :). I can see both sides. However, one quick google search and you will find that bionic-reading is the real company behind it. The creators at least could have mentioned the site and that the idea is not from them, but copied from the original author. The way it is right now, I find it very disappointing!
Ludwig
@jhon_alino That is indeed a good thing, and I stronly believe in propgress by competition! :) However you also need to see the original author spending lots and lots of time and money (assuming what he writes on his site is correct) and then seeing that others are publishing his idea (assuming that this is correct again) to be their own.
Ted Hagler
@ludwig_stumpp Nice job on the recon!
Chris Messina
Top Hunter
Hunter
Would love to see a 1.5x improvement in my reading velocity!
Ansh Nanda
Maker
@chrismessina Thanks for hunting us!
Musharof Chowdhury
Congrats on the launch!
Md Shadab Alam
Maker
@musharofchy thanks for the support
Akash kumar
@anshnanda This seems really helpful, congrats on the launch.
Md Shadab Alam
Maker
@anshnanda @new_user_132202238c68543d8 Yeah do checkout the chrome extension, it really does help in speed reading
deepu
congrats
Aaron O'Leary
I really love this! I wish it could be transferred to books!
Basharath
Nice, it's bionic reading extension. I thought of this just recently and you have made this simple and clean extension. Congrats on the launch.
Ansh Nanda
Maker
@basharath Thank you! If you like it, would really appreciate you sharing it with your friends :)
Shrishty Pandey
Loved the idea of the product @anshnanda ! Congratulations on the launch.
Ansh Nanda
Maker
@shrishty_pandey Thank you! Would appreciate if you share it with your friends :)
Sasha Briu
Congrats on the launch, guys !
Mara Sy
I was just googling something like this yesterday!!!! WOOT WOOT I work in support and there's just a bunch of reading required to respond to customer questions clearly. Super helpful! Thanks.
Ansh Nanda
Maker
@heymara Thank you! I hope it helps your work. Would appreciate if you share it with your friends or colleagues :)
Sébastien Toth
That's a very creative idea :) congratz
Ben 🇩🇪
I've seen this on 9gag a couple of days ago. Great extension. Wish you the best!
Hanry
I rarely comment on PH. But this is incredible!!!
Ansh Nanda
Maker
@zihan_cheng I'm glad, thank you! Would love for you to share it with any friends.
fayh j
That is interresting. Will give a try for sure.
Liz Hermann
What an awesome idea! I'm convinced just by testing it on the picture above. Pretty cool!
Giovanna Pergher
I am very curious to test this! What a great idea!
Ansh Nanda
Maker
@giovanna_pergher Thank you! Would love for you to share with any friends. Feel free to download it.
Rishabh garg
Great product. Will enhance the reading experience. Congrats on the launch, team.
Alex Zadorozhin
Great idea! Does your app support all languages, or only English?
Ansh Nanda
Maker
@alex_zadorozhin The extension works for all languages but is best for latin-based languages.