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Show HN: Early adopter of speed reading web-tools, built similar app for iOS

#1
I've been an early adopter of speed reading tools. I have tried to maximize my use of speed reading tools for browsing.

But, I travel a lot and I couldn't find any such free app for my iPhone. So, I built one for iOS - 1000 WPM (http://1000wpm.in)

I have received positive feedback from users and people are finding it useful. I just hope that you guys will find it useful too.

Here are some promo codes for HN early adopters.

3H4ELR6AFYYX W3HE9WHYT3FX ME9HN3TWF9WM YAKEAY67HYML 6MHLXNXMKR46 JJH4T9Y7AXL9 T9EAY9YRYFKL W4JXTPWL4HTR LJ4RMWFJ3WL9 P7Y3XR4YN7LH

Feedback/comments are always appreciated.

tl;dr - http://1000wpm.in

Re: Show HN: Early adopter of speed reading web-tools, built similar app for iOS

#5
First of all, thank you for the promo code.

One of the first things I've noticed is that the app lacks a night mode (a dark theme). I think that would be really great. It's somewhat hard to concentrate on the text with a bright white screen blinding me in the dark.

It would be really nice if the app would ignore archived texts, or even better, move them to a different section of the app, so that we can revisit them if we want to.

Maybe ability to paste text into the app as well?

I noticed some reviews suggesting a pause at the end of the sentence or after longer/unusual words. That might be a good idea, although I didn't really suffer from the lack of those pauses.

Apart from that, I just went through a long(ish) text at 550 WPM without a hitch, so it works as advertised. Nicely done!

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