DotReader
connects ideas across your books automatically
Details
- External ID
- 47634328
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- DotReader
- Website domain
- dotreader.info
- Launched
- April 4, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.11182519280205655
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- browser utilities and bookmark managers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- connect and search ideas across your books
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a modern reader application that processes e-book text, chunks passages, computes vector embeddings, and stores them in a vector database to link related concepts.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Obsidian, Note-taking apps (general)
Concerns raised: Obsidian has high setup complexity for most users
Feature requests: Automatic connection/relationship finding across saved highlights, Multi-input support (photo, voice, Kindle import)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 121 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #112 of 122 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 156 days after the earliest competitor.
- ThinkReader · github · 2026-09-11 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- dewarr · github · 2026-09-21 · 71 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Summa, a tool that annotates over whatever you're reading · hn · 2026-07-15 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- ReadKinetic · hn · 2026-07-22 · 105 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Calmscroll · hn · 2026-09-10 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Reader · hn · 2026-09-19 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- CrossPlay · hn · 2026-08-07 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Merge Wikipedia articles across languages into one page · hn · 2026-09-05 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.43
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.