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AI summaries of every source your field shares

Your field moved this week. Here’s what changed.

Crowd Signal watches every kind of source across the internet that the people in your field share, and hands you the short version with the source on every item.

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Which field do you follow?

Pick one and watch its sources get read, filtered and sorted into sectors.

Reads every kind of source

  • Articles & blogs

    News sites, blogs and any RSS feed

  • Videos

    The channels your field watches

  • Communities

    Forums and discussion threads

  • Research

    New papers and preprints

The second job

Keeping up is a second job. It’s the one that never gets scheduled.

The information was public the whole time: in a newsletter you unsubscribed from, a subreddit you don’t have time for, a changelog nobody reads, a trade publication behind a layout from 2011.

The problem was never access. Keeping up loses to real work every week, and the cost stays invisible until it isn’t. Crowd Signal is built to make that second job short.

The crowd

Everyone has sources worth reading. The crowd puts them in one place.

Every member brings the sources they already follow. Each one is audited on a sample of its articles for relevance and quality, and once approved it is read for everyone, so one person’s good find becomes everyone’s coverage.

Nothing is added automatically: every submitted source is audited, then approved by a person.

Every story

Every story, summarised and sourced.

Each article gets an AI summary and key points. The publisher stays on every item, with a link to the original, so the real thing is one click away.

  • A short summary and key points
  • The publisher and a link to the original
  • Who in your field shared it
Climate & energyResearchExample
Hacker Newsnews.ycombinator.com· Dec 13, 2022

US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved

Summary

Lawrence Livermore’s National Ignition Facility got more energy out of a fusion reaction than its lasers put into the target, a first for a controlled experiment. It is a scientific milestone rather than a power source: the lasers drew far more from the grid.

Key points
  1. 013.15 MJ of fusion energy from 2.05 MJ of laser energy
  2. 02The first controlled fusion experiment to reach ignition
  3. 03The lasers drew about 300 MJ from the grid
Shared by 8 members2,786 points · 1,021 comments · original on energy.gov
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Example: a real Hacker News thread. The summary is written for it.

How it works

You tell it what you do. It starts watching.

Pick your sectors

Follow sectors other members have published, or build your own, private or public. Your field, however narrow.

Features

Built around what changed in your field.

The feed is organised by the sectors you follow, so what reaches you is what moved in them.

Your sectors

New since your last visit

New stories since your last visit go on top, above a line. A sector shows a dot until you open it.

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  • Public or private sectors

    Build a sector for your corner of the field. Keep it to yourself, or publish it to the catalogue so others can follow it.

  • Add a missing source

    Paste the link to a blog, feed or channel. Once a reviewer approves it, it’s read for everyone who follows its field.

  • Save it or share it

    Bookmark a story for later, or send someone a link to its summary. They can read it without an account.

Questions

Questions, answered.

Short answers about what Crowd Signal does today.

Which sources can Crowd Signal read?

RSS feeds, blogs, YouTube channels, subreddits and Hugging Face papers.

Can I add a source that is missing?

Yes. Submit a blog, feed or channel. We audit a sample of its recent articles for relevance and quality, then a reviewer approves or rejects it. Once approved, it becomes a shared source, read for everyone.

What is a sector?

A topic you follow. Follow sectors other members have published, or create your own and keep it private or publish it.

What does a story include?

An AI summary, key points, the publisher, and a link to the original article.

Can I share a story?

Yes. A share link shows the story’s summary to anyone, and it expires after 17 days.

Which languages is the app in?

English, French and Spanish.

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