have been struggling to keep up with all news in AI lately. developed a tool to help me with that.

[tranquil harbor]

hey friends!

i've been having problems catching up with all news happening lately(especially around AI), and they've been giving me a FOMO.
too many good content creators out there, but i've never been able to catch up with their content.

decided to ship a small side-project to help me with that. now AI watches all the content for me(currently YouTube and Substack) and sends me a newsletter once a week, so I can keep up with everything.

it's called https://summate.io and i would be happy to listen to your feedback.

p.s. it is free and I plan to keep it that way, at least till the point when it's not that financially challenging to summarize everything 🙂

[ashen osprey]

that's fire! can I add my custom set of channels and newsletters I want to receive summaries from?

[tranquil harbor]

yes, of course – that's the whole point of it. instead of watching everything everywhere – just get one newsletter a week, and read it.

saves a lot of time for me.

[zealous cargo]

can this Summate work through YouTube videos or channels that do not provide auto-subs and descriptions?

[tranquil harbor]

hey – Dschen – apologies for not getting back to you early!

currently, as you've noted – we support only auto-subs(and normal subs), as I try to keep cost for each video relatively small.

We might explore using speech-to-text models(like openAI whisper) later, but let me know about your use-cases!

here is the current progress and future improvements on the app: https://twitter.com/0xraduan/status/1666408674959532032?s=20

Raduan Al-Shedivat (@0xRaduan)

few stats after our launch last week:

• 1.4k unique visitors for the website
• 600% growth of users: from 48 to 288
• 1831 summaries generated.

we received valuable feedback and going to iterate on it this week. next newsletter will be better!

short thread on improvements 🧵

Twitter · Jun 7, 2023, 11:36 AM

[zealous cargo]

Use cases: livestreams of radio broadcasts of about an hour long, as well as short talk videos. Almost all the videos from the channels I pointed out to don't have autosubs or comprehensive descriptions.

[twin shard]

could use something like whisper.cpp running on a cloud TPU or HF hosted inference interface, cost would be minimal i think
ps- seems like the trash/delete button is broken when changing feed, tested on chrome, edge, mobile chrome

[dull viper]

Does this work with other sources besides YouTube and Substack? Would love to create my own newsletter based off of X sources, Y number of topics, and present it in Z format. Have tried to build a prompt for the browsing plug-in but it lacks the persistence to continue past 2 topics.