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439 points david927 | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas which you're thinking about?
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geminiboy ◴[] No.44419215[source]
Still building. https://tosreview.org/

Reading through the Terms of service in websites is a pain. Most of the users skip reading that and click accept. The risk is that they enter into a legally binding contract with a corporation without any idea what they are getting themselves into.

How it started: I read news about Disney blocking a wrongful death lawsuit, since the victim agreed to a arbitration clause when they signed up for a disney+ trial.

I started looking into available options for services that can mitigate this and found the amazing https://tosdr.org/en project.

That project relies on the work of volunteers who have been diligently reading the TOS and providing information in understandable terms.

Light bulb moment: LLM's are good at reading and summarizing text. Why not use LLMs for the same. That's when I started building tosreview.org. I am also sending it for the bolt.new hackathon.

Existing features: Input for user entered URLs or text Translation available for 30+ languages.

Planned features: Chrome/firefox extension Structured extraction of key information ( arbitration enforced , jurisdiction enforced etc).

Let me know if you have any feedback

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ta12653421 ◴[] No.44426152[source]
Thats interesting!

How does your product do in the age of AI?

I could imagine this could be sold to a whatever-legal-tech company, or maybe to a compliance company or similar.

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1. geminiboy ◴[] No.44431083[source]
Thanks for your comment!

AI and specifically the summarization capabilities of the LLMs is what made this product feasible.

This is still a side project with no plans of monetization. There is no moat (yet) that an internal team in a legal tech company cannot replicate. There are still a few interesting problems to solve in the roadmap, which I am eager to work on. Then will let life take its course