Show HN: Let Me Summarize That for You

6 points by amir-h a year ago · 1 comment · 1 min read

TL;DR paste an article URL in https://letmesummarizethatforyou.com/ and get a brief summary in a shareable link.

Hey HN, Machine generated summaries have become pretty good, and I still often find myself staring at a long article I'm interested in but don't have enough time/energy at the moment to read it.

Copy pasting to Gemini/ChatGPT and asking it to summarize works, but I sometimes find it a little tedious.

I had a 6 hour flight and I used it to put together this simple web app, all it does is fetch the URL, extract the text (if it's an HTML/PDF), ask an LLM to summarize it nicely, and produce a shareable link with the summary.

I actually found myself using this quite a bit to get summaries for HN posts, for example here's the summary for the "Reverse engineering Ticketmaster's rotating barcodes" [1] article that was posted recently: https://letmesummarizethatforyou.com/url/?url=https%3A%2F%2F...

[1] original HN post - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40906148