Also, please don't do promotional voting on HN. It's against the rules, HN's software tends to pick it up, and then the accounts involved get penalized and/or banned.
We've built a platform that we hope will solve a problem we have — there's so much awesome stuff to read on the web every day, so many insights and lessons big and small, but there's only so much time in a day.
Personally I've got something like a 1000 unread items in my Pocket which I'll probably never read since I'm constantly adding new stuff.
We're in private beta currently and would like to gauge interest for building out the platform further, so please let us know if this is something that could provide value by signing up for early access.
The app itself is live, and for now you can follow twitter feeds of abstracted stories from HN, TechCrunch and some other stuff.
This reminds me, in part, to a famous project Summly from UK (acquired by Yahoo). Is there a relationship, because you're also about abstracts and summaries?
I really like the Twitter profiles, definitely saves a lot of time. How do you plan to scale this service, as the quality of abstracts obviously depends on high quality contributors? What is in it for them?
At the moment we're focusing on the quality of the abstracts both for Twitter followers and the beta testers.
If there's enough demand to scale further a crowdsourced model might be a good way to scale, whereby "abstracters" could benefit from exposure and social capital it gets them, similar to Quora and other services.
https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Also, please don't do promotional voting on HN. It's against the rules, HN's software tends to pick it up, and then the accounts involved get penalized and/or banned.