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by markokocic 5236 days ago
Ok, how is it different to mailing list with nice looking subscription page?

Looking at your (minimalistic) page, I can't see a reason why should I give you my email and click "sign up". Some more info about service, guest preview of what is offered might make me interesting, but one page with one image and subscribe button will not.

2 comments

Sorry, realized I never answered your question.

The difference: We scrape medical forums, blogs, twitter, facebook, etc (all the social media avenues) and add a layer of intelligent semantic analysis to bring you the best information relevant to what you have (or just the hottest news if you don't have anything).

If there isn't anything new that meets our threshold, we won't send you anything.

Scraping sites for this content has vary basic copyright issues. How do you get around that?
From our research about these laws, as long as we cite back to the original site (i.e. we're not displaying their information on our own sites, only linking to them) and respect the no-scrape robots.txt files, we're in the clear.
That's fair. Then again, that's how Summify started out, too. Once we get the consumer-facing site built, feel free to sign-up then. This list is just for people who want to be notified once we're live.