Inspiration - Sometimes you don't wanna read through the whole post and the interesting comments,
summarizing them and the sentiment of the post could be useful for the user , like a news flash
What it does
Summarizes a reddit post and its top 25 comments
How we built it
using devvit web
Challenges we ran into
user experience was a challenge
option1 - the user experience is still a bit of a challenge - to copy a post url and then switch back to an app to summarize is a bit of a lengthy process option 2 - another option is to build a mod tool where once the user summarizes via post option, add the summary as a comment - but due to devvit restrictions replacing the summary could again be a challenge, because mods have control over whether the comment can be deleted or not , so to update a summary for post could lead to duplicate/ multiple summaries
so for now I have decided to go with option 1
Accomplishments that we're proud of
option 1 is already published , few bugs in mobile reddit app , that needs to be fixed
What we learned
about devvit platform , how the reddit platform works ...
What's next for Summarizzit
well if devvit can update its platform to launch a webview within the post via its menu options that would be of grt use, but of course I am wondering if this could be possible in future considering security implications ... but yeah if that is indeed added in future then user traction would improve because user experience would increase - who wouldn't want to save their time reading the gist of a post :P
Built With
- devvit
- gemini
- node.js
- openai
- redis
- typescript
