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If there are enough users then it should be possible to devise some other monetization scheme to make the service self-supported. perhaps donations. e.g. Wikipedia is completely free, but no one would doubt its usefulness.

Ask HN: How to increase users and awareness for free online service

Hi All, A couple of days ago I posted (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43525481 ) about a news summarization web app. I got some comments but not a whole lot of feedback.The web app is accessible at https://reveal-app.netIn my small online ad placement I got a click-through rate of 1.3% and reasonable engagement based on the amount of time spent on the website. (I have analytics to track...

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Re:Show HN: Reveal-App: AI Summarization of latest news on Sunday March 30, 2025 @04:02PM (#43527111)
Thanks for checking it out. I made UI for the phone, so can't really put tooltips, but maybe I can add labels to make the usage more clear.I think shorter summaries is also a good suggestion
Re:Show HN: Reveal-App: AI Summarization of latest news on Sunday March 30, 2025 @03:59PM (#43527088)
Thanks for checking it out and the suggestions.

I designed the UI To be more usable in a phone screen. Hence the buttons in the bottom. Also I have tried to make it stream like. So everything together and you can quickly close out the cards your'e done with. But definitely having categories is something I've thought about and may move to it.

Show HN: Reveal-App: AI Summarization of latest news

Hello Hacker News Community, I have created a website/application for aggregation and summarization of the latest news articles (https://reveal-app.net). How it works: It is a simple concept really. The backend grabs the news content (uses RSS) and then passes it through an LLM to create a summary of the news. The front end web app allows viewing the summaries. It’s built using NodeJS / NestJS...

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Basically, network and get to know more friends and improve "people skills". Hard skills like programming are probably going to be less valuable.
Re:We Need a Class Action Lawsuit Against AI Companies on Friday March 28, 2025 @02:41PM (#43508685)
Why don't websites that don't want to be crawled by AI implement some sort of authentication mechanism to prevent unauthorized use.