The distant echo of a leather ball against a cricket bat still lingers in my memory. I still remember my childhood days, returning home from cricket practice, sweaty and tired, to find my dad engrossed in his newspapers. This ritual punctuated our weekends. On the table lay two newspapers: one in our native Kannada language, "Samyukta Karnataka," and the other in English, "Deccan Herald."
Before I could even think about my escape to the shower, my dad's voice would break the silence.
"How was your cricket practice? Freshen up, eat breakfast, and let's get to reading the newspapers," he'd say, signaling the commencement of our weekend intellectual workout.
But to young me, there was an impending task. The editorial sections of these papers were my Everest. Every weekend, my father would hand them over with the expectation that I read and summarize their core message for him. All I could really manage was skimming through the sports headlines. Diving into the dense, intellectual content of the editorials felt like a mountain I was ill-equipped to climb.
Many were the times I wished for a genie – someone who'd magically read and summarize these lengthy pieces. Just a few sentences that I could then relay to my dad, retaining our weekend bonding over news without the cumbersome reading. A tool to extract the essence without me diving deep seemed like an unfulfilled dream.
Then, fast forward a few years, technology handed me a surprise. The release of ChatGPT was that eureka moment. Observing it effortlessly turn long emails into succinct summaries, the wheels began to turn. If this marvel could streamline emails, why couldn't it be the answer for news articles?
With that spark, FlashFeed was conceptualized - an innovative tool using the prowess of ChatGPT to distill news into easily digestible snippets. I realized I wasn't alone in my desire for brevity. Perhaps not in Washington DC, where politics is a spectator sport, but surely, in countless corners of the world, there are people like my younger self, yearning for succinctness.
FlashFeed, to me, isn't just an app; it's a bridge between my past and the present, a nod to those childhood weekends, and a solution for today's fast-paced world. As I gear up for its public debut, the excitement is palpable. Will it resonate with the market as deeply as it resonates with my memories? Only time will tell.
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