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by braza 620 days ago
As an ex-Blinkist I think the work here it's quite impressive.

From what I found based in some titles that I have read in the past and in comparison with Blinkist:

- The summaries here feels that has more "meat in the bone" in terms of bring complex ideas and have more bullet points

- Maybe it's about the prompting, but the language used you can definitely know that is generated by an LLM

- Having the direct quotes from the book after an initial definition of the theme of a chapter it's good

- The whole experience with the LLM kicking in on the fly, makes the whole experience quite bad; maybe you should consider have that pre-stored in some place

Honestly, I think your product it's 85% of theirs (and this is not something bad).

The pricing USD 79 for a lifetime it's OK, but without giving some kind of access or even make some library available it's quite hard to see someone paying for a library that you do not know the books that is in there.

From the legal perspective, I think you might be in some hot water since some publishers can dispute the fair use due to the fact that you're monetizing part of their content.

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Okay, I really appreciate the feedback! Agree on the "meat in the bone," quotes, and LLM-like writing style (which is somewhat intended).

On-the-fly/cache: Yeah, I agree. We're only four months old—the number of on-the-fly summaries will go down significantly over time.

85%: What could make it 100%?

Pricing: I think that's fair. But considering Blinkist charges for $100+ for yearly, the $80 lifetime deal isn't that bad.

Legal: We actually drive a decent amount of traffic to Amazon, Audible, and Kindle. We're hoping to partner with the publishers and authors in the future whether in the form of revenue sharing or licsening.