I think I found a perfect project for myself

7 points by superdario ↗ HN
I'm a developer, a good one and that is what I do the best. I have had several projects, but I've always had a chicken-egg problem (how to get customers when there are no suppliers and vice versa), how to generate content... On top of all of that, I need something that I like to work on regarding development...

A year ago I found that project but I dropped it because people told me: "Don't do it, not worth it". I mean I did launch it but for my own country which is really small.

The project is about summarizing news articles, you know pulling out the most relevant information from Bible-sized articles, saving people's time, and solving clickbait problems. With that, I solved the supplier problem, I just need to scrape news sites and have a supply. Thus it makes it easier to drive customers.

Also from a development perspective, it is super fun, I can keep improving my original summarization algorithm. So I'm bringing that project back to life

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Congrats, sounds like a valuable service (saving people's time). Is it available online or still in development?
> "Don't do it, not worth it"

This might be the worst advice a human being can give to another.

I'm glad for you that you brought it back to life and got to work on something you enjoy.