I Built a Chrome Extension That Turns Long Articles Into Structured Notes, and It Taught Me Two Expensive Lessons
Mikhail Sapunov built R-Searcher, a Chrome extension that uses AI to analyze long articles into structured notes, aiming to enhance reading efficiency without replacing the original content. The tool offers article summaries, key takeaways, and inline explanations of selected text to help users better understand dense material. Through the development process, Sapunov learned valuable lessons about cost control and data privacy while maintaining a lightweight, user-focused design.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3897953) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Mikhail Sapunov Posted on Apr 29 I Built a Chrome Extension That Turns Long Articles Into Structured Notes, and It Taught Me Two Expensive Lessons #ai #webdev #javascript #buildinpublic I Built a Chrome Extension That Turns Long Articles Into Structured Notes, and It Taught Me Two Expensive Lessons When I started building R-Searcher, I was not trying to create another AI chat wrapper. The idea was much narrower.
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