At the age of 15 years old, a kid named Nick D’Aloisio created a very successful app. The app was called “Summly”. The idea of the app could probably be known just by looking at the name, but the point of it was to sum up big stories and condense the information so that somebody could go and read it and they would be losing time that they value in their day. This is a great idea. There are many people who want to keep up with things going throughout the world, but they just don’t have the extra time to spend 30 minutes reading an article. D’Aloisio was targeting that audience who values their time, and wanted to help fix their problem of staying up to date with important or interesting things that happen in todays world. While the information may not be as detailed as the long original article, people can still go and read a few short paragraphs and have a good understanding on the subject being talked about (maybe even a better understanding than if they were to skim the whole article extremely quickly). This definitely helps the problem of keeping up with what is going on in our world. This app was a big hit, in fact, in 2013 Yahoo! bought the product for 30 million dollars. It is amazing to me that a kid around my age sold an idea of his, to a company like Yahoo! for 30 million dollars. Nick D’Aloisio’s success just shows me how opportunities can come with a great idea and some hard work.
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Absolutely fantastic idea. A millennial entrepreneur making something for millennials!! Nobody nowadays wants to read a whole news article, we want summaries!!
This is so impressive. I totally need this app. I don’t love reading, however I don’t have the time in college to watch the news. I really believe this would benefit me.
This sounds a lot like The Skimm. I subscribe to The Skimm and it saves me so much time as well as keeps me informed on everything important happening in the world. My parents are professors and told me that one of the biggest things that employers say college students lack is a knowledge of current events. It can be easy to live in a bubble when you’re at college and many students don’t feel like reading for 30 mins-an hour for something that they will most likely not talk about with any of their friends. The Skimm does a great job of summarizing and it sounds like this app does as well.
This is definitely extremely useful. As a political junkie, I find myself constantly trying to read the news and not having enough time catching up with everything going on. However, I wonder how the app/creator determines what to put into their stories? How do you determine what to select from big stories, and how do you know what is truthful? I think this is definitely useful, but there could certainly be some issues in selecting what you present to the public.