Hating on Summly, CS style

[Daniel Suo]

http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/03/26/summly/

[Daniel Suo]

Actually, is there a service that reduces article redundancy rather than length?

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Daniel Suo <dani...@gmail.com> wrote:

http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/03/26/summly/

[Allen Yang]

Wait, that's what Summly does? (I'm a bit late to the game). Damn. I agree with the mild sense of outrage of this author on the topic of doing a tl;dr for something that's basically already 95% of the way to tl;dr...

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[Christ...@gs.com]

If there is, I’d love to know.. sounds like a great data problem. Not aware of anything.

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[Christ...@gs.com]

Couldn’t Yahoo do what Summly does for less than $30mm?

 

But the below:

 

Summly’s other investors, improbably enough, included Wendi Murdoch, Ashton Kutcher and Yoko Ono. The most important one was Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong billionaire, whose investment fund supported Mr. D’Aloisio’s idea early on, before it was even called Summly.

 

Makes me very suspicious. No ordinary 17 yr old can get Murdoch, Kutcher (OK, maybe Kutcher), and Yoko Ono to invest in his app. Perhaps this kid and his fam have some sweet connex that Yahoo is willing to pay for?

[Yinan (Benny) Zhu]

Great point Tina.

Also, it gives some idea into how inefficient product development at large firms are. Maybe it truly does cost more than 30mil to develop. I wonder how much a company like yahoo or google pays per engineer-hour of work, all in.