Ask HN: What product can be built around automatic summarization algorithms?

Create an API and sell access to it. Later if you come up with an idea, you can still build it.

How much per call, and how long is the output? Example of quality?

Output is 5 sentences. Quality is still being tested but here's a sample:

from this article http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/09/do-you-need-to-be-a-jerk-to... Do You Need To Be A Jerk To Be A Successful Entrepreneur?

- I recently read Ben Austen’s WIRED article about Steve Jobs, which prompted me to put together my thoughts about the tradeoffs of being a successful entrepreneur.

- After reading it, you might be convinced that you can either be a jerk and successful or decent and mediocre.

- Successful people come in all forms and they all have different limitations, baggage, prejudices, and ways of looking at the world.

- Jobs was successful because his unreasonably high goals, brilliant insight, and relentless passion made people want to work with him.

- You don’t have to have a surly personality to be successful, although sometimes it comes with the territory.

Is it multidocument summarization? I wrote a term paper on this back in school some years ago and though the technology is very interesting, it left a little to be desired (so I wonder what the state of the art is now). The applications I studied for this are removing bias in e.g. news articles, critic's reviews, etc.

Maybe, summarize the text of emails for people who receive lots of email each day.