I built time to read all the things I want to
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I built Read Fast after realising I was saving hundreds of things to read and reading almost none of them.It automatically turns saved content into a scheduled briefing and sends it to my inbox at whatever time I choose.New version since last post actually allows you to bulk upload URLs. So you can just dump links here and Read Fast will scrape and brief for you.Great for actually reading the things I want to. Curious if that resonates with people?
HN · launched Dec 14, 2025 · 5 upvotes (top 90%) · 0 views
Niche: bookmark managers · 142 launches, 4 in the last 7 days ▼ -69% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes A read-it-later aggregator that scrapes web pages, summarizes them using an LLM API, and delivers an email digest on a schedule is a classic vibe-coding project.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Discord bots for link parsing and content archiving, PDF exporters for offline reading
Concerns raised: AI summaries miss nuances and good writing that humans intuitively understand, Information retention better from original content than summaries, Risk of recursive summarization leading to loss of substance, Summaries alone may not be sufficient for learning new concepts
Feature requests: Side-by-side view of original content while reading briefing, Printable PDF format for offline reading, Quality metrics and insights extraction from archived content, Support for multiple content types (GitHub repos, tweets, blog posts, PDFs)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 240 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #234 of 241 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 39 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Readlyst — Read more. Finish more. · ph · 2026-10-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- I built Goodreads for academic papers to help my wife survive her PhD · hn · 2026-01-26 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- I'm 35 and couldn't finish reading articles anymore, so I built this · hn · 2026-01-06 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- PageWise · ph · 2026-10-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Readback · ph · 2026-11-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Uncited · hn · 2025-11-19 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Stream Reducer · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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