Summit

Summarized news in your pocket

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Summarized news in your pocket

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Hey Product Hunters! I'm Varun Shenoy, and this is what I've been working on for the past couple of months. Essentially, it's a personalized news summarization app for iOS. It leverages core natural language processing technology built into the iOS operating system to create fluent summaries with complementary visuals in the form of infographics. There is no back-end and all the code runs on the device, which means that it will never go down. It won me a scholarship to WWDC 2016, and I am truly excited to share it with everyone. It's definitely something I am going to work on for a while, as it has been a great learning opportunity for me. I built it because I love the idea of summarized news, yet most of the apps on the App Store that claimed to do so were often lacking and were not cohesive enough. Being a member of my high school's Speech & Debate team also propelled my interest in summarized text. We have to stay up to date on current events, and summarized news can help us when we don't have enough time to read long and often drawn out articles. Being a freshman in high school, I will be constantly releasing new updates to make Summit even more efficient and accurate. An Apple Watch companion app is in the works as well. I am going to be around for the rest of the day, so feel free to ask me any questions regarding the software. I'm a one man show, and thus any feedback would be much appreciated. Thank you!

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10yr ago

@varunshenoy Really good job Varun :)

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10yr ago

@varunshenoy Hey Varun! Very good job, congrats on that. It's actually similar to what we've been developing recently (with an ML standalone backend though) and I like your approach with built-in iOS technology.

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10yr ago

Emblify AI

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Thank you @philipsajeesh & @vladzima!

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10yr ago

@varunshenoy love this. Eventually could you add a dark mode to this? Thanks

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10yr ago

Emblify AI

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@musolek Of course! I have added it to my list of features for future updates. Thanks for checking Summit out!

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10yr ago

Pagedone

Hey the design and concept looks cool overall. But one question you say "infographics and maps" whats that? I havent seen it anywhere in the app.

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10yr ago

Emblify AI

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@evivz The infographics and maps are provided underneath the summary. The infographics include ring charts, money highlights, and many more when certain information is extracted from the text. The maps are shown when there is a key location found in the text. Thanks for checking out Summit!

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10yr ago

I have an iphone 6 and the app crashes. Really frustrating cause this app is great to get all the information I need. What can I do?

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10yr ago

Emblify AI

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@mario_guajardo_vanzzini Yeah, I know exactly what is going on and I'll try to push out a hotfix soon. I suggest downloading the app again and not choosing Business Insider as a source until after the patch. I believe this issue is due to problems on their feed. Thanks for the input!

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10yr ago

@varunshenoy Thanks! Let me try that.

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10yr ago

PeckApp

Congrats @varunshenoy looks really cool! Definitely gonna download and try it out! Great to see other teenage entrepreneurs doing cool things!

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10yr ago

Emblify AI

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@zach_cmiel We are quite literally the future of tech 😄 Thanks for checking out Summit!

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10yr ago

Looks great. For some reason I can't shake the feeling that there was already similar product that went bust. Other than that, good job.

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10yr ago

Emblify AI

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@zeusoft There are actually a couple similar summarization apps, which have died out and have not been updated for quite some time. I really loved the idea of summarized text and couldn't believe that people would drop the idea. Their user interfaces were also subpar. I picked it up and made it my own 😄 Thanks for trying it out!

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10yr ago

Hey Varun, this is such a fantastic app. It's clean, beautifully designed and in the testing over the last few days, I'm loving it. It summarises the articles so well and I'm already saving a ton of time. I'd love to be a beta tester for this as well. I also just had a few thoughts on the app. As someone mentioned above, having Pocket integration would be amazing. If we can choose our own sources as well, that would be really beneficial. For example, I may want to choose 9to5Mac, etc. Finally, while reading an article, it would be so great having the iOS swipe to go back gesture rather than just the back arrow on the top left; one handed use on the iPhone 6s Plus is hard with that and I have to use reachability. Keep up the amazing work and congratulations on the WWDC '16 scholarship!

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10yr ago

Emblify AI

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@_amitsbajaj All of the described features are sure to be a part of a future release. Thank you so much!

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10yr ago

Zoho

@varunshenoy Love the enthusiasm you have! I was probably scanning for WWE episodes when i was 14! All the best! Just noticed your green call to action buttons in the website is a lil scattered. Do fix it :)

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10yr ago

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