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Amazing what putting a flashy UI around an outwardly boring piece of software can achieve. LIBOTS has been around since 2003 I think... Mint and Yodlee, Hipmunk and Orbitz - I wonder what other unglamorous services could be improved with a better UI? Maybe GDS?

Congrats to Jeremy for the coverage - good luck with any plans you have for TLDR!

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Well there's a bit more to it than just OTS. I do a little work on the summarization part myself then there's also the extraction piece. I did spend a few hours writing code. :P

Thanks for the congratulations, though; who knew a quick little weekend hack would get so much coverage? I didn't (hence why I didn't pump up the volume on the server's resources initially ;)).

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