14 karma · joined October 10, 2013
In my case, I was good at software and had opted for masters in business. In my free time I explored more on that area while on campus like - hacking groups, startup weekends, inter university competitions (Princeton, Penn, CUNY) and such. By the end of my masters I was able to start my own startup and we got picked by Techstars.
PhD's I'm not sure. Although, I would love to explore it yet again, perhaps in my 50's :)
My problem was that i had collected a lot of such links and simply wasnt able to go thru all. So I had built this app that took all the links in the bookmark and summarized it.
You can check it out at https://www.makemysummary.com anyone is welcome to try it out, it summarizes youtube, podcasts and webpages
If your app has zapier integration then anyone can route their bookmarks via MakeMySummary and get them summarized
1. Collect in Pocket 2. On a new add to Pocket trigger a Zapier task to Summarize it 3. Summarize the item in MakeMySummary https://www.makemysummary.com. Although this is optional, i find it easier to have some sense of the item i bookmarked without reading/viewing it fully. And i built it in my spare time to solve this exact problem. 4. On Summary done, Zapier will make a Todoist Task for me to review at a later time
Added benefit with Pocket is its searchable, so if and when i need, i can look up something i bookmarked. Google links expire as several noted in the comments.
Boredom is good, its very hard to get bored these days with so many things needlessly wanting our attention.
But definitely try the aquarium.
I built this app to summarize any News/Blog articles or Youtube videos into a few lines of text. It saves me time and attention from having to go through an entire article or video, instead, I can read the summary and decide if an article is worth my time to read further.
The app can be accessed as the website or via Zapier integration for those who are interested in automating their process. I have put in free and paid subscription plans as AI resources are not cheap to operate :(.
I integrated it with Zapier so that summaries can be automatically generated for content originating in from RSS feeds, Emails, Bookmarking software like Pocket, Youtube channels, etc
Looking for feedback!
Zapier users can click here for the beta invite of the integration https://zapier.com/developer/public-invite/64050/536dc46f726...