Snippetly
Finish your books and PDFs one paragraph a day through email
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Finish your books and PDFs one paragraph a day through email
5 followers
Snippetly emails you the next paragraph from a book each day, in order. Read built-in public-domain classics or upload your own PDF, kept private to you. A synced web reader keeps your place. No app, no streaks. If you skip a day, the next paragraph still comes.
Hey Product Hunt, Jay here.
I built Snippetly because I have a graveyard of half-finished books and PDFs I always meant to get to. Like most people I am busy, but the one thing I am reliably good at is email. So instead of trying to build a reading habit somewhere new, I brought it to the inbox.
It emails you the next paragraph from a book each day, in order. No app to open, no streaks, no gamification. If you ignore a day, the next paragraph still comes. You can read built-in public-domain classics or upload your own PDF, which gets parsed into paragraphs and stays private to you. A web reader keeps your place synced so email and browser never disagree.
The honest test was whether it would work on me, and it did. I have finished Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (simplified by AI too!) and a PDF that sat untouched in a folder for two years. One paragraph at a time, in email, did what nothing else did.
This is an AI-assisted project. I am not a full-time developer, and a year ago I could not have built this on my own. I am putting it out there because I find it genuinely useful and figured others might too.
Stack: Next.js 16 and TypeScript, Supabase for Postgres, auth, and storage, Prisma, Tailwind 4. Payments via Stripe, transactional email via Resend over SMTP, deployed on Vercel with cron jobs running the delivery schedule. And a lot of AI.
Free tier is one active book, forever.
Two things I would love your feedback on: does a paragraph a day by email actually build a habit for you, and does the PDF parser hold up on your messier files? And of course, any other feedback! :)