Ask HN: Help me validate this idea I am working on
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It really depends on how you define the word value.
For me personally I think this is a garbage idea and it's so similar to all of the other people who pass themselves off as content creators when in reality they are content repackagers. The internet is flooded with this trash there is so little actual new interesting information compared to the repackaged trash that is thrown out there. It used to be when people would repackage this stuff they could apply their own personalized unique perspective but now running it through chat GPT there is no personalized unique perspective to it. It's regurgitated summarized trash. Almost always I would rather see the original article if it is something interesting to me then someone's garbage summary whose only purpose is for engagement.
This was always the problem with 24-hour news channels that people complained about in the beginning. Of course only as old people can remember those days. The idea that there's not enough engaging news to fill a 24-hour channel so they have four hours of actual engaging news throughout the day and 20 hours of people talking about the actual news.
So really this is about how you personally define value. Does this provide value in the sense that it is new information or provides an interesting and unique perspective on something? That answer has to be an absolute no because it's regurgitated automated trash. Does it provide value in the sense that it drives engagements and clicks and increases your clout and perhaps monetary resources, maybe.
Once you decide what value means to you don't need the answer of hacker News.
For me personally I think this is a garbage idea and it's so similar to all of the other people who pass themselves off as content creators when in reality they are content repackagers. The internet is flooded with this trash there is so little actual new interesting information compared to the repackaged trash that is thrown out there. It used to be when people would repackage this stuff they could apply their own personalized unique perspective but now running it through chat GPT there is no personalized unique perspective to it. It's regurgitated summarized trash. Almost always I would rather see the original article if it is something interesting to me then someone's garbage summary whose only purpose is for engagement.
This was always the problem with 24-hour news channels that people complained about in the beginning. Of course only as old people can remember those days. The idea that there's not enough engaging news to fill a 24-hour channel so they have four hours of actual engaging news throughout the day and 20 hours of people talking about the actual news.
So really this is about how you personally define value. Does this provide value in the sense that it is new information or provides an interesting and unique perspective on something? That answer has to be an absolute no because it's regurgitated automated trash. Does it provide value in the sense that it drives engagements and clicks and increases your clout and perhaps monetary resources, maybe.
Once you decide what value means to you don't need the answer of hacker News.
Totally agree. I would also ask how do you plan to generate revenue? If it is by plastering your summaries with masses of ads, then it's only going to be like hundreds of such sites that already pop up alongside Google News.
For me value is something that solves a real problem, not just yet more junk word salads.
For me value is something that solves a real problem, not just yet more junk word salads.
I run a STEM page on LinkedIn & X. I have to post something STEM-related daily for which I search Google News for an article, open it, copy its content, and then ask ChatGPT to write an engaging LinkedIn post or Tweet for me out of it.
For making this task easier, I am building a tool that lets me generate content (linkedin posts, tweet,s etc) for various social media platforms out of any article on the web with just its link.
Check out the demo [https://youtu.be/w-5UHoaUNmw]. I want your feedback on it. I made the MVP in 1-2 hours and wanted to know if I should continue working on it or not.
Do you think this is valuable?
Thanks for your time!