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Products that do what too long; didn't read, the website. does

1TY
Turn your “read later” folder into a physical book▲204
Hi HN! Being locked down with plenty of time in my hands, I clearly noticed a problem that I faced and also felt passionate about tackling. - Excessive screen time in our day-to-day - Diminishing attention spans It was consistently tough to properly read quality longform content online. From screen related tiredness to having ads and notifications pop up and demand a share of my attention, my focus was compromised. Long story short, I wanted to read longform content that lives online (and there is a ton of high quality out there), in an inherent offline medium, paper :p Fast forward 5…
2020
2BM
Because most of us suffer from AD(H)D, here is too-long-didnt-read.com▲7
Hey HN crowd! Two days ago I realized I'm almost unable to read a book or a long article without getting distracted by Twitter/HN/Reddit/Work. The situation is so terrible, I'm even getting afraid of big articles, and my ReadItLater list is getting pretty long (shameful I know) ... and I'm pretty sure most of you are in this situation :) Being used to TL;DRs on long reddit posts, I thought it would be great to have these for everything, so I quickly hacked this website: http://www.too-long-didnt-read.com/ Here is an example of TL;DR: http://www.too-long-didnt-read.com/5tropy I would love to…
2011
3W1
Website 181 Took Way Longer Than a Day – YumHacker▲57
2014 · yumhacker.com
4TC
Timeline.com▲123
2015 · timeline.com
5GC
govuptime.com▲267
2013 · govuptime.com
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Hen▲86
Snooze that article for reading later, offline
2016
7WC
WhenEpisode.com (Simple weekend project)▲81
2012 · whenepisode.com
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123Read▲70
Distraction free reading for every website
2019
9ST
Sift through recently dropped .com's in order of pronounceability, etc.▲111
2012 · swola.com
10
Just The Article Please▲127
A simple article reader for the web
Feb 2026
11PA
Paste a link to an article, get a minimal version to read▲78
2014 · justread.mpgarate.com
12BC
boredreading.com▲8
2023 · boredreading.com
13MB
Minimal Bookmarking Site▲62
2018 · appread.me
14RT
“Remind to Read” button on your website▲30
2015 · remindto.app
15IM
I'm 35 and couldn't finish reading articles anymore, so I built this▲9
Hey HN, the full story is on the page, but here's the TL;DR: I'm 35 and somewhere along the way I lost the ability to finish reading articles. I'd open them, read 2-3 paragraphs, get distracted, and close the tab feeling like a failure. My "Read Later" list became a graveyard of 2,000+ unread articles. I tried everything – focus apps, reader modes, blocking extensions. Nothing worked. Then I realized. 'maybe the problem isn't me'. Modern web articles are designed for engagement metrics, not comprehension. Sidebars, popups, related articles, comment sections – everything is optimized to pull…
Jan 2026 · parsely.obasic.app
16SI
Site I made to find independent tech articles that may not be trending▲6
2017 · linenum.com
17IP
I parsed the entire en.wikipedia for events, time and location▲18
2020 · whataday.info
18IM
I made a website with nonfiction book summaries▲7
2024 · thesummarist.net
19WP
Weekend project – StumbleUpon For Wikipedia▲21
2012 · chrome.google.com
20IW
Is website up or down?▲7
2014 · iswwwup.com
21IW
Interactive Website I did▲15
2014 · magnovite.herokuapp.com
22NC
newtab.com, an attempt to make the newtab page more interesting.▲7
2012 · newtab.com
23NO
nooooo.ooo▲14
Link: http://nooooo.ooo Github: https://github.com/aiwebb/nooooo.ooo This was just a dumb excuse to use the .ooo TLD. Inspired by the wonderful http://yesno.wtf.
2017
24IN
I noticed I've spent too much time reading Hacker News▲14
I noticed I was getting side tracked reading Hacker News, checking back, reading articles, comments, etc. It felt like my productivity was being hampered so I created a simple web app to receive the most popular stories in a daily email. http://dailyhn.com
2011

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