Summari
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Ed Shrager

Summari - Instantly summarize any article or webpage in one click

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Summari is a web and mobile app that can summarize long text articles into bullet points. This allows you to filter content more effectively and save time.

People preview a 2-hour movie with a trailer: we make this possible for text.

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Ed Shrager
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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
Fares
@eshrager amazing product, well done. Congrats !
Ed Shrager
Maker
@fares_aktouf Thank you - it's a big team effort with some amazing work by everyone else who deserve all the kudos!
Fares
@eshrager My congratulations to all the team
Brian Nutt
@eshrager What a great idea! It dove tails nicely with a product we are getting ready to launch called Brand Builder. It's similar in that we are grabbing brand assets from a url and summarizing them for the user. We also have an API being released. Your product is killer and I'd love any feedback on ours as we prepare to launch. You can follow along with our Upcoming product page here- www.producthunt.com/upcoming/adi.... Congrats on the launch!
Brett Byron
Maker
@eshrager @fares_aktouf Thank you! 🙏
Cristian Mezei
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!
Ed Shrager
Maker
@cristian_mezei this is really kind, thank you. we focused heavily on quality as a summary must be trustworthy and do justice to the original author's work which we don't want to replace. we're still learning and improving things - long way to go but your support and feedback is really appreciated
Vladimir Oane
@cristian_mezei @eshrager Some of our userbase mentioned you guys. Can we chat about doing some cool things together?
Brett Byron
Maker
@cristian_mezei Really appreciate the support. We have a long ways to go and are really excited about our AI model's potential
Aki Honkala
Congrats on the launch! Especially the mobile app is something that can be useful for me.
Brett Byron
Maker
@aki_honkala Thanks, Aki. Glad you like the mobile app :)
Umer Sufyan
congrats on the launch. super interested to know how this works on long articles with more than 5000 words?
Ed Shrager
Maker
@umer_sufyan1 Longer articles are where we shine! It's also where we've developed some very unique technology where others haven't been able to process long text previously. One point of caution is that when you start going beyond a certain length, a summary is harder to use as a consumer because it needs to be longer or sacrifice some of the main ideas: it's always a trade-off. So you can generate a summary but it might be longer than you expect because we will always want to produce something high quality with as many main points as possible. One fun example of a long document we have produce an amazing summary for is the Ethereum Whitepaper which is 75 minutes long and useful for anyone learning about cryptocurrencies!
Brett Byron
Maker
@umer_sufyan1 Thanks Umer! Here's an example summary of a 5200 word article from Vanity Fair https://share.summari.com/exclus...
Umer Sufyan
@eshrager thanks for the detailed answer man. loved the product
Hyman Ye
This is a game changer for college students. I have to read a bunch of articles/reports at school and have used these summaries as notes.
Ed Shrager
Maker
@hyman_ye Thank you Hyman! Everyone should know you were one of our top community members and this wasn't possible without your support!!
Brett Byron
Maker
@hyman_ye Thank you Hyman! Wouldn't have been possible without awesome community members like you creating the training data set
Hiroyasu Ichikawa
I use Summari every day mainly on Slack as a personal reading dock while using DeepL to translate in Japanese. Wondering if you are considering a feature to let us paste text to summarize(like DeepL), especially for paywalled articles. Anyhow, congrats & thank you!
Brett Byron
Maker
@socialcompany Thank you! We really appreciate support from early, engaged users such as yourself. We are indeed considering a paste-and-summarize feature and as of recently have the technical infrastructure in place to build it. Paywalls are something we're making improvements on daily. If you have the latest Chrome Extension and are logged into the paywalled site (so you're able to view the entire article), we're able to summarize the entire article.
Hiroyasu Ichikawa
@bbyron I just confirmed that paywall articles in FT and The Information are beautifully summarized :) Thank you! - Another question: Is it OK to share Summari's summarized URL on social media publicly from a copyright standpoint? If it's legally cleared, I think it's a great invention to make it possible to share paywall articles (it's often hesitant), maybe it might be good for publishers to promote their content? -Congrats on the No.1 on the day on ProductHunt
Brett Byron
Maker
@socialcompany Glad that worked :) yes, it's OK to share our summary share pages on social media or on other public mediums. that's why we made them! thanks again for your support. we're happy we made it to #1 on the day
Damien
I've been using it for a few months, and it has been quite valuable. With the increasing flow of information, Summari helps me to assess quickly if a long read is worth it (and if not, I go away with some key insights that are often more than enough!)
Ed Shrager
Maker
@damiencourbon this is awesome, thank you Damien. We're so happy to hear you like it
Brett Byron
Maker
@damiencourbon That is EXACTLY how we envisioned Summari being used. Thank for the support, Damien!
Pasi Isomäki
Congrats on the launch! I wish I had this will studying in UEF - would have helped my time handling.
Ed Shrager
Maker
@ichibanpasi Very kind, thank you. We hope you can still get value out of it now given all the content out there!
Sarah Marcus
So cool
Ed Shrager
Maker
@sarah_marcus thank you!
Brett Byron
Maker
@sarah_marcus Thanks, Sarah! We're finding good traction with digital marketers, particularly those who comb through lots of content daily in search of inspiration for blog posts, sales collateral, etc.. Hope you like it!
Julia Shandrokha
Summari seems like a cool tool for students, I'm sure it can help in studies. Cool product, congrats on the launch!
Brett Byron
Maker
@julia_shandrokha Thank you, Julia. We have seen a lot of early usage with students who have too much to read and not enough time. There's room for improvement on some of the university portals (hard for our scraper to capture the text if there's a login) but we're working on it!
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