6 comments

  • segmondy 9 hours ago
    For those that don't know, Firefox already has a built in AI assistant that you can use with your own models or point to external models

    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ai-chatbot

  • codenote 13 hours ago
    It's a great product overall! However, as others have mentioned, if it can't be open source and requires granting strong permissions, I'm concerned about the security implications.
  • richin13 1 day ago
    Any plans to open source it?
    • djyde 1 day ago
      Sorry, no. I'm an indie developer so I wish I can make some money with it. It would be a fair price as I wrote on landing page, will less than $20/year.

      But I can share the tech stack I use:

      - WXT: the browser extension framework

      - Vercel AI SDK. Both SDK core and SDK UI. I wrote a bridge that I can proxy the api request to background script which compat with the SDK streaming protocol, so that I can use the SDK UI.

      - Next.js: for the landing page and the up coming cloud service (e.g. prompt sync)

      - Strapi: headless cms.

      • richin13 1 day ago
        Fair enough. I asked because an extension like this has access to too much information which I don't like from a privacy stand point.

        Thanks for sharing though!

        • djyde 1 day ago
          I understand your concern. I think "access to much information" means this extension require <all_url> host_permission, which I don't want to either but it must.

          Because custom AI provider's API base url is submit by user. If I want to call the API on background script, this base url must be listed on host_permissions. Otherwise it will cause a CORS problem.

          optional_host_permissions may fix this problem, but since the base url is set by user, it's not possible to use this workaround.

          Any suggestion?

          • tough 20 hours ago
            you could give paying customers access to the code to run themselves (not open source)

            if that works for you/your privacy-aware customer they can inspect the code/build it/ run their own version

            • djyde 19 hours ago
              Actually, the nice thing about chrome extensions is that users can view all requests made by content_script and background script through devtool. This is much more intuitive than checking the code.
      • Ylpertnodi 1 day ago
        >will less than $20/year.

        I'd rather pay more, once, than another* subscription.

        *Of which, I have reduced to two: phone plan [€5.99pcm], and mullvad [€5.00pcm].

        No more.

  • djyde 1 day ago
    Hi hackers. I wrote an AI browser extension for chat with page.

    I know there are many existing tools like this. But every existed tools require me login before using it and I must use their AI models (which is the way they make money).

    So I write my own tools for it. The key features are:

    - No need to login, just use it

    - Use your own AI API key

    - Use your own custom prompt

    - Chat run entirely within the browser, without passing through any third-party servers

  • mayne 1 day ago
    It looks good
  • r6jg9oopm 1 day ago
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