Summa, a tool that annotates over whatever you're reading
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HN · launched Jul 15, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: screen accessibility and annotation tools · 31 launches, 3 in the last 7 days ▼ -57% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Content generation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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More like this: all 31 launches in screen accessibility and annotation tools →
Could you build this?
Yes Summa is a desktop/reading overlay application that highlights text and displays context, vocabulary, and literary references using standard LLM API queries.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1317 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1195 of 1318 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 258 days after the earliest competitor.
- ThinkReader · github · 2026-09-11 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- reading-log · github · 2026-10-19 · 46 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- better-readme-skill · github · 2026-10-08 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Local CPU model for fact-checking, summarizing, explaining text · hn · 2026-05-27 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- arcilla · github · 2026-10-30 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Calmscroll · hn · 2026-09-10 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Bookstoread.ai · hn · 2026-05-07 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- LiteMoE · github · 2026-11-01 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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