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Show IH: Summarize the day's posts from your favorite publications in an AI-powered email newsletter

Hi IH, this is my first time (finishing) and sharing my side-project. It allows you to 'subscribe' to your favorite news publications and then at your specifified time will send you an email full of summaries of any articles published.
Check it out here: https://blappr.com

I'm currently studying for my A-Levels here in the UK and would end up spending way too much time reading articles and just browsing the web. So initially I built a tool to summarize articles and that progressed into Blappr: https://blappr.com

If you want me to add any other news sources just leave a comment - most publications with an RSS feed can be added. Working on the ability to add your own RSS link/feed.

Any other feedback would be amazing!

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    Very Interesting!
    Few things I could spot were.

    1. The landing page could be better!
    2. UX Experience while selecting topics was not good
    3. UI could be improved. I found the logo was overlapping with the text in some places while browsing website on a small device.

    Subscribed! Looking forward to the newsletter.

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      Thanks for the feedback! How do you think I should go about improving the landing page? Another user suggested having an example email would that suffice?

      My plan is to improve the whole source selection bit as it is very poorly implemented, and I'll note the responsive issue.

      Hope you like the newsletter :)

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        The landing page could be improved by adding more information about the product - highlighting the AI summarization part and how your product differs from other newsletters and also if possible, provide links to few sample newsletters as it helps people to validate the quality of it.
        As with everything else, you can always look at other newsletters landing pages for inspiration.
        I hope this helps :)

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    I love the idea of this and I think your messaging is pretty clear.

    It would be helpful to have a screenshot of an example email and some addionL details on the data sources. Can I add my own? Is it a predetermined list?

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      hey thanks for the support!
      An example email is a great idea, I'll look into adding it.

      As for the sources, they are just RSS feeds from a handful of publications I picked, the link is then scraped to get the full article and summarize.

      Letting people add their own RSS feeds and publications is a feature on my to-do list!

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    Sounds interesting!!
    Signed up waiting for the newsletter to arrive.

    Kudos!