Summarize News/Blog articles and Youtube videos
You can now summarize news articles and youtube videos into a few small sentences using MakeMySummary. Its a new web app that lets users summarize the deluge of info that comes our way every day.
I developed after being inundated with 100’s of blog items, youtube videos, and podcasts when I returned from my vacation. I was simply overwhelmed. So I put on my hacker hat and resolved to fix it. First, I built a prototype that would summarize news articles by using just their URL or Text (essentially the same thing). The second challenge was more demanding, summarizing youtube videos. It took a while to wrangle this but I was able to make it work. The third was to make this app work with my existing toolchain of how I manage my incoming info. I had set it up all on autopilot in Zapier, so I made it work inside Zapier.
That was one long weekend well spent. Having spent all the vacation with kids and family, I could hole myself in my home office without remorse or strange looks from wife and kids. I looked like a ghost after my marathon hacking session. In the end, all was well, I had a working app that worked for me.
In the weeks that followed, I read thru all the summaries that the app generated and was able to get to the holy land of Inbox-Zero. Over 90% of the incoming media content is not useful, but earlier I would have to spend time to read it at least halfway or more to see that the article was totally useless or the video was not very informative.
I didn't have a name for the app yet, as it ran on my personal AWS backend. I searched the thesaurus to find a cool sounding name and checked for it with the domain registrars. No luck, all the cooling sounding names were already taken or were extremely costly. Gosh! Can you imagine USD 100k for a domain name! So I decided to make it dead simple and non-confusing, so I named it MakeMySummary, taking inspiration from Hugging Face :-), thank you Hugging-Face!.
So, I purchased makemysummary.com and made the app public here https://www.makemysummary.com. AI servers don't come cheap, yes they have free tiers and such but after that, the costs are very high. Hence I put in a subscription plan using a payment processor that will charge in local currencies also. Local currencies, because I have personally faced issues of exchange rate changes making the monthly subscriptions go up and down. I don't want others to have the same problem due to lazy thinking on my part!
Using MakeMySummary, you can at this time, do three things:
- Summarize a news/blog article using its URL or its text
- Summarize a youtube video using it URL
- Use the app inside of Zapier (using this custom invite URL, click on it and follow instructions to use) to automate your workflows.
If you have any questions on the tech and other ideas on how this can be used. Please leave feedback on the app here (Opens a Google Form): https://www.makemysummary.com/feedback
Blog Post Summary
Original is here, the summary from MakeMySummary follows:
MakeMySummary — Startup Molekule Is Using the California Wildfires to Sell Its Crummy Air Purifier — https://onezero.medium.com/startup-molekule-is-usi…
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[1] “Molekule Air Purifiers not only filter out ash and debris from smoke — they destroy airborne pollutants.”.,[2] Compared to other air purifiers, Molekule’s air purifier is wildly expensive, and looks like something you’d find in a millionaire’s doomsday bunker..
,[3] By many accounts, Molekule is not a good air purifier..
,[4] None of that addresses the simple fact that Molekule air purifiers are bad — and should be avoided..
,[5] And while HEPA filters generally cost more than lower efficiency filters, an air purifier doesn’t need to be as expensive as Molekule’s..
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Youtube summary
Original here, the summary from MakeMySummary follows
MakeMySummary — What Makes The Top 10% Of Founders Different? — Michael Seibel — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtfTOuSHGg8
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[1] Um, the first thing that I’ll say is great founders execute, and I’ll be really specific about what that means when I do office hours with the great founder and they say they’re going to do something..,[2] And it’s pretty intimidating to work with someone who’s constantly getting things done, not intimating in a bad way, but intimidating in a way where the demand respect because they get shit done..
,[3] So once again, the three most important things I see that separate out top 10% founders from anyone else is first a good execute..
,[4] Being motivated in the face of defeat or failure is an extremely important thing for a start of founder to be able to do So..
,[5] And so I never use idea to separate out great founders anyone else because I’m not the arbiter of what a good idea is..
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If you have any questions on the tech and other ideas on how this can be used. Please leave feedback on the app here (Opens in a Google Doc): https://www.makemysummary.com/feedback
