Show HN: Dripfeed – Send articles to your inbox in 15 minute installments

lusmo.re

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Hey HN,

I made dripfeed to scratch my own itch. I would frequently find myself leaving several tabs of long-form articles open for weeks at a time, never getting around to reading them, and then eventually just closing them. dripfeed is a simple web-app that takes a URL and your email address and emails the article to you in 15 minute (3000 word) installments.

Please let me know what you think.

This is great, I've had an idea for a service the lets me pause at a specific point in an article and have it remind me to read it. I very frequently lose the momentum in long articles.

It would be nice if I could set some options, like 1 paragraph (or 2+ if they are shorter).

Thanks for taking a look. There is a hidden form element on the page called wordLimit that defaults to 3000, you can edit the value of this to something lower if you'd like. I hadn't considered counting in terms of paragraphs, I might play around and see if I can come up with any good and consistent alternatives to word limits.

Can we please customise the duration too?

Thanks for taking a look. As per my other comment, there is a hidden field in the form that sets the wordLimit (default 3000, assuming 200wpm average reading speed). Feel free to adjust this value. I'm looking into adding some customisation to how the article is chunked and how the chunks are delivered, but just wanted to keep it simple and clean for the initial version.

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