Hey everyone 👋, I'm Jacob, founder of Macro (macro.com). We're building a new suite of AI editors for common document formats like PDF.

📃 My background is in AI research and I read lots of papers, so I'm excited to show you Macro PDF: the best way to speed-read papers!

💭 Our unique feature is the "AI Popup": just highlight some text and hit "Explain" or "Bullet Points" or "Translate" to call AI inline without leaving your page. AI popups help me quickly understand complex papers while keeping me in flow.

🔎 My favorite feature — this is a simple one — is the ability to CMD+K to search and switch between papers I've read instead having  47 tabs open.

📚 Our most powerful feature: chat with PDFs split-screen and get citations back to the sections it references. I recommend using Claude for smart answers, Grok for hot takes, or Gemini with its 2M token context window for asking questions of dozens of PDFs at once.

Our generous free plan will get you started! Let me know in the comments what you think or how we can make it better :)

It's such a useful tool! Can it help with translating PDFs, especially those containing specialized terminology?

All the best for the launch @jacob_beckerman!

great app !

Gorgeous and so unique! Awesome work!

This could be great for academic reading. Being able to highlight confusing sections and get instant explanations would save a lot of time compared to searching terms separately. The ability to chat with multiple PDFs at once seems especially useful for research papers.

WOW！ The entry point of this product is so exciting! And I think your idea is really useful for students. Congratulations!

Loved this, Jacob! I'd have been more than happy to have this 10 years ago, but never is too late to apply IA. Hope many founders can take the most of it and wish you all the best here.

This will help me a lot to learn new language faster!! 🙂

Good tool will definitely use.

I love the idea of CMD+K to navigate between papers without the clutter of multiple tabs. How intuitive is it to use for someone new to AI editors? Congratulations!

Love this! Definitely the best AI tool I've tried so far. Super easy to use as well!

I love the example with Palantir's latest 10-K filing. This is the use case for me as I usually read company 10-K's and 10-Q's.

Just quickly tried it, nice interface and very responsive! Explain feature works well. Would be great if it could pretty-print math expressions.

This sounds incredible, Jacob!

The AI pop-up features seem like a game-changer for researchers. How does it handle more technical or specialized content? Is it versatile across different fields?

great

Love it, how come its marketed as an AI PDF reader, when it can do so much more?

Speed read complex PDFs with AI popups and AI chat. As you read, highlight anything you don't understand for a GPT-powered explainer. Or use Claude to chat with multiple PDFs and get links back to sources. Designed with love in 🗽NYC to be ⚡ lightning fast.

This could be something very useful.

This sounds like a dream for anyone buried in research papers! Highlighting text and getting instant summaries or explanations without switching tabs is such a time-saver. How well does it break down super technical stuff, can it simplify without losing important details?

This tool is helpful for quickly understanding difficult concepts.