Flash

A speed reading web app

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A speed reading web app

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Flash is a FREE speed reading app that allows you to read large texts fast by flashing words one by one. You can read up to 1000 words / min using this technique. The app is inspired by an iOS app Spdr.

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Maker

Hello, ProductHunt! Flash is a FREE speed reading web app inspired by an iOS app Spdr. I really loved the idea of Spdr, but I primarily read on my laptop, so I decided to create a web version. The app allows you to speed read a lot of text by flashing (get it? 😅) words one by one rapidly. It supports virtually any rate and has a Dark mode and Light mode.

Let me know what you think 🙌🏻 Also if you like the app and find it helpful, or hate it and want to rant or have improvement suggestions, be sure follow me and hit me up on Twitter 🙂

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8yr ago

Hustle Crew Academy

@rdev I've experimented with these before ... I'd love to see a product that delivers this in a way that feels gamified or fun. Personally I never stuck to it and just went back to old fashioned reading.

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8yr ago

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Maker

@abadesi I still read normally all the time 😅 But sometimes I need to speed through a chunk of text and this kind of tool helps a lot :)

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8yr ago

Hustle Crew Academy

@rdev I feel you - will def try with articles since I tend to stop at the headline or skim too much

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8yr ago

Corkdork

@rdev Yes! I have to say I am genuinely flattered that you used the UI/UX from Spdr! Maybe we should combine forces, DM me!

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8yr ago

YourNote

Haha, this is quite fun. Is it a good idea to read articles using it? eg -> how would it deal with para changes, quotes, lists with lots of text, etc?

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8yr ago

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Maker

@aviaryan123 It treats spaces and line breaks the same way and change of paragraph always (at least in my Medium tests) resolves as multiple spaces, so it'll give you a slight pause between paragraphs.

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8yr ago

@aviaryan123 @rdev I just copy/pasted an article, and every for every blank line (which separate paragraphs), it's displaying "Flash - A Speed Reading App". It's quite jarring. If you can fix this, I'll use this regularly. Thanks.

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8yr ago

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Maker

@jholton Oh shit. It's fixed now, sorry about that 😅

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8yr ago

@rdev Awesome, thanks!

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8yr ago

@aviaryan123 Great idea to use for reading articles. I could easily follow along with 500 wpm and the format of words flashing keeps me focussed and I don't need to scan.

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8yr ago

Is there a chrome extension for example to 1-click read a medium article (which is opened and in the active tab), which gives me an overlay (similar to normal reader extension) for speed reading? Or do I always need to manually copy the text?

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8yr ago

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Maker

@serglotz there isn’t right now but it sounds like a good idea. I’ll look into this. Thanks! :)

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8yr ago

I love this idea! I've wanted something simple to use for reading articles/books like this. I would a love a feature to import articles/pdfs/other documents too! Edit: Also, a way to pause would be nice (Sometimes I need to blink)

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8yr ago

Thieve

This is awesome. Would be cool as a chrome extension or bookmarklet that could pull content from the page you're on.

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8yr ago

This is nice, but a bit inconvenient to have to copy/paste what I want to read from one place to another. Maybe you could take a look at what this extension is doing and also try something similar: https://chrome.google.com/websto... Also, I'm yet to find a tool like this that works well with pdfs, so that would be a good differentiator. Congrats and keep shipping!

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8yr ago

Anyway to customize the speed? The default gif flashes too quickly and gives me a headache.

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8yr ago

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