Skim It takes the friction out of reading long articles by turning your inbox into a summarization interface. Instead of pasting text into a chat window or installing an extension, you share an email with a single article URL to [email protected]. A few minutes later a condensed summary arrives in the same inbox, so the whole workflow happens where you already spend your time.
The project is deliberately minimal. It was built by two post-exit founders, Karthik Sridharan and Alex Furmansky, as a hackathon experiment to practice AI text processing, email handling, and web scraping. Summarization runs on OpenAI's GPT models. Because it is a side project rather than a commercial product, expectations should be modest: the site itself notes that all generative systems make mistakes and that output is best treated as a quick orientation rather than a citable source.
Sharing is built into the design. Because summaries are delivered by email, you can CC colleagues or friends on the original link and they receive both the article and the AI digest. Privacy is limited to what the service needs to function — the sender address, any CC'd addresses, and the first URL in the message body.
