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Snippetly
Finish your books and PDFs one paragraph a day through email
Snippetly emails you the next paragraph from a book each day, in order. Read built-in public-domain classics or upload your own PDF, kept private to you. A synced web reader keeps your place. No app, no streaks. If you skip a day, the next paragraph still comes.
I built Snippetly because I have a graveyard of half-finished books and PDFs I always meant to get to. Like most people I am busy, but the one thing I am reliably good at is email. So instead of trying to build a reading habit somewhere new, I brought it to the inbox.
It emails you the next paragraph from a book each day, in order. No app to open, no streaks, no gamification. If you ignore a day, the next paragraph still comes. You can read built-in public-domain classics or upload your own PDF, which gets parsed into paragraphs and stays private to you. A web reader keeps your place synced so email and browser never disagree.
The honest test was whether it would work on me, and it did. I have finished Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (simplified by AI too!) and a PDF that sat untouched in a folder for two years. One paragraph at a time, in email, did what nothing else did.
This is an AI-assisted project. I am not a full-time developer, and a year ago I could not have built this on my own. I am putting it out there because I find it genuinely useful and figured others might too.
Stack: Next.js 16 and TypeScript, Supabase for Postgres, auth, and storage, Prisma, Tailwind 4. Payments via Stripe, transactional email via Resend over SMTP, deployed on Vercel with cron jobs running the delivery schedule. And a lot of AI.
Free tier is one active book, forever.
Two things I would love your feedback on: does a paragraph a day by email actually build a habit for you, and does the PDF parser hold up on your messier files? And of course, any other feedback! :)
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About Snippetly on Product Hunt
“Finish your books and PDFs one paragraph a day through email”
Snippetly was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #155 on the daily leaderboard. Snippetly emails you the next paragraph from a book each day, in order. Read built-in public-domain classics or upload your own PDF, kept private to you. A synced web reader keeps your place. No app, no streaks. If you skip a day, the next paragraph still comes.
Snippetly was featured in Email (36.7k followers), Productivity (655.7k followers) and Books (122.5k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 164.5k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Snippetly?
Snippetly was hunted by Jay Gill. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Jay Gill
Hey Product Hunt, Jay here.
I built Snippetly because I have a graveyard of half-finished books and PDFs I always meant to get to. Like most people I am busy, but the one thing I am reliably good at is email. So instead of trying to build a reading habit somewhere new, I brought it to the inbox.
It emails you the next paragraph from a book each day, in order. No app to open, no streaks, no gamification. If you ignore a day, the next paragraph still comes. You can read built-in public-domain classics or upload your own PDF, which gets parsed into paragraphs and stays private to you. A web reader keeps your place synced so email and browser never disagree.
The honest test was whether it would work on me, and it did. I have finished Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (simplified by AI too!) and a PDF that sat untouched in a folder for two years. One paragraph at a time, in email, did what nothing else did.
This is an AI-assisted project. I am not a full-time developer, and a year ago I could not have built this on my own. I am putting it out there because I find it genuinely useful and figured others might too.
Stack: Next.js 16 and TypeScript, Supabase for Postgres, auth, and storage, Prisma, Tailwind 4. Payments via Stripe, transactional email via Resend over SMTP, deployed on Vercel with cron jobs running the delivery schedule. And a lot of AI.
Free tier is one active book, forever.
Two things I would love your feedback on: does a paragraph a day by email actually build a habit for you, and does the PDF parser hold up on your messier files? And of course, any other feedback! :)