The content might change over the next few days as I add more information about the product.
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Intro
Summary Owl is a tool to transform lengthy content into structured summaries (repeated this a few times, its stuck now 😊). Its being developed as a micro-saas product to automate all the steps needed to go from a list of urls (resources) to summarized content in variety of formats using best of AI models for the task.
Why summarize content?
As part of my main business I need to drive the organic audience with useful content while staying on top of industry’s trends myself. Prior to using Summary Owl, I would spend hours to research, extract, and summarize content from publications and subreddits, package this into a newsletter and/or a blog article, and publish.
Here is what the process looked like before and after Summary Owl:
| Before 🤯 | After 😴 |
|---|---|
| Go to each source (web, blog, subreddit, X) and find the content | Setup context parameters (tone, output formats, rules) |
| Validate content is recent and applies to my industry | Input your sources using UI |
| Make sure no duplicate (and wasn’t already used) | Generate to test |
| Break the content down into proper chunks | Refine |
| Copy the content into ChatGPT and Claude for summary (whichever works better) | Automate |
| Generate summary Iterate again and again to get it right | Publish manually or automate with integrations |
| Combine all of the summaries to a single piece of content | Sleep… |
| Manually reorder if needed | Drink coffee… |
| Summarize the summary to clean duplicate content and group based on the need | Exercise… |
| Format the master summary into various outputs (blog markdown, newsletter) | Work on important things |
| Publish (finally) | Read… |
| Lose sleep | Repeat… |
Benefits to you
- Save time on content creation and quickly share the content with your audience.
- Engage your audience by provide easy-to-read content that keeps your followers interested, not yawning.
- Simplify complex information by making complicated topics understandable.
- Stay updated with industry trends while you are building your products.
- Monitor competitors and reactions of their audience to changes.
- Discover new ideas for your own content and products.
- Boost your brand by consistently sharing valuable insights on auto-pilot.
- Increase shareability: short, clear summaries are more likely to be read and shared.
- Focus on what matters by spending less time browsing endless resources in search of key points.
Features
The full features of the beta will be announced soon, but here is what’s expected:
- Clean and simple UI to input sources, manage context, and generate output (in development)
- Always get the content you need without lifting a finger, we handle scraping (done)
- Customize output, style, tone, and other parameters of summaries (in development)
- Sources to include web (pages, blogs, directories), reddit, X, discord, and more. (alsmot finished)
- Scheduled jobs to put your content generaton on auto-pilot (in development)
- Integrations to automate your publishing workflow (in development)
- Redacted (think big)
The summarization framework has already been developed and is being used in multiple public sources (blogs, newsletters) for purposes of testing and refinement. The application itself is being developed with NextJS and is expected to ship soon enough.
About me
I’ve been building projects for over 20 years (middle aged fellow now). Had a few attempts in “build in public” space back in 2012, but alcohol and larger projects consumed me away from public. Following a successful exit automation product for pharma industry, I’ve started a few businesses with co-founders in the HR and recrutiment space which operate to this day, bringing me the freedom to build tools like Summary Owl.
I am fresh and happy now and would love to share the journey of building products solo.
Project Links
- Website: this website
- X: @alwayspivot
