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Comment by codeslush | Hacker News Reader

I visited - didn't know what to do.

Definitely need to show a listing of submissions and summaries. As per the example you provided, looks great. Would love to use a service like this.

Categorize/tag them so I can browse startup-related articles (or whatever category I want)

Auto-fill url's as people are typing.

If the story I'm interested in has already been summarized, take me to it.

Just a few of my ideas. Could definitely build a mini-newspaper/ezine type of thing around this.

Good job! Keep the iterations coming.

EDIT: Don't force me to use my twitter account to do a submission - please!

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Thanks for your comments!

"I visited - didn't know what to do." True, the only place it is really explained is here on HN, I'll fix that quickly. [edit: fixed]

"Categorize/tag them so I can browse startup-related articles (or whatever category I want)" I don't want it to become this "big", I just want to have a bookmarklet when I'm reading a good Paul Graham's article, and check if someone did a TL;DR for it already. One click.

"Auto-fill url's as people are typing." Auto-fill with what?

"If the story I'm interested in has already been summarized, take me to it." The bookmarklet does that.

"Could definitely build a mini-newspaper/ezine type of thing around this." Maybe, I'll wait to see if the website is of some interest for an interesting number of people first :)

"Don't force me to use my twitter account to do a submission - please!" I thought it was a good idea for moderation/spam protection... Maybe I should rethink that...

"Good job! Keep the iterations coming." Thanks again !

"auto fill with what" >> URL completion

Forcing me to use my twitter account stopped me from going any further. I understand your logic though.

I see someone posted a link to tldr.it - that's kinda what I was thinking as far as showing recent/approved submissions. But you could do better if you do break it down to a tagging/category system. I'm just one voice, so maybe you'll hear it repeatedly.

This is just my input - again, congrats on doing something!

A browser addon would also be awesome!

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