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Keeping up to date with your newsletter subscriptions is becoming a chore. Pain point to solve? 🤔

Irfan S
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Hey peeps! Ever since ChatGPT came around, there’s been a rise in the number of newsletters popping up. Everyone’s following the trend, and quite a few of them have useful information and tips. But keeping a track of them, or rather opening your inbox and checking them out is becoming a chore for most people, myself included. I’ve been prototyping around an idea where your newsletter emails are summarised into 250 word headlines, and sent to your inbox twice a week. And the original emails are linked so that you can check those out if you find them interesting. All from within a single email. Would this be a useful tool for y’all? From my initial research amongst friends, most of them rarely check their newsletters due to not having the time or patience. Wanted to expand this circle and get more inputs I’ve got it on https://summraiz.fyi, and the early beta is up. Would love your inputs and feedback on this! Cheers 🥂

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Tedel
You will get bored of so much reading… hehehehe… Jokes apart, I prefer feeds (RSS/Atom) over e-mail subscriptions. They do not go to your inbox, and you check them whenever you want.
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Tedel
@irfan_s As it is. If an article looks interesting I would like to read it entirely, not just the summary. What to improve? Only that web browsers stopped showing feed subscription icons by default and you need to add an extension to get it back. I wish they were there by default again. Just that.
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Irfan S
SummrAIz - Condensed newsletters
SummrAIz - Condensed newsletters
@simplytedel Interesting point, It does start getting too text heavy at one point. Still ideating over ways around that limitation. If you had the option of seeing a condensed version of your feed, would that make it easier to read? Or would you rather prefer to have your feed as is? And as a side note, what would improve your experience with your feed?
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Irfan S
SummrAIz - Condensed newsletters
SummrAIz - Condensed newsletters
@simplytedel Oh gotcha! Is it possible to rss feed email newsletters as well? Didn’t know that was a thing
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Tedel
@irfan_s Many do, like Substack newsletter system, but feeds are mainly used to follow blogs and websites. That was they were created for. All websites should have a feed (and a clear guide on how to find it), but many website owners consider it outdated, which is a pity. Yet there are tools that help you get a feed for any website you want, like when you use Nitter to get a feed for Twitter profiles.
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