jmadeano

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by jmadeano 11mo ago
> Can the AI agent that generates the transformations be run locally? We've tried. While building this, we tested just about every top model you can think of (closed and open). We weren't able to get any of the open models to p
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by jmadeano 11mo ago
Appreciate the kind words! Best of luck with whatever you are working on
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by jmadeano 11mo ago
Glad the application resonates with you! > A bit disappointed that it doesn't work on Firefox. I swear the entire ~3% marketshare of FF users (myself included) are lurking in this thread lol. You are all giving me an excuse to incre
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by jmadeano 11mo ago
> As someone who just launched a chrome extension, I find it cool that with tweeks you are essentially create one but without having to go through the chrome web store. I do view this as somewhat of a meta-chrome extension. We've ha
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by jmadeano 11mo ago
> Great idea, great execution on your landing page (the onboarding experience is really well done) Thank you! As others pointed out here, we admittedly didn't invest much in the "landing page" aspect, but I did work hard t
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by jmadeano 11mo ago
I hope we win too :)
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by jmadeano 11mo ago
That's correct. The flow is 1) user requests some change e.g. "change to dark mode", 2) a snapshot of the page is sent to an LLM, 3) the LLM generates and returns a deterministic script that handles the page editing. And just
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by jmadeano 11mo ago
Joking aside, VCs want founders to build something people want. We built this because we knew that we wanted it ourselves. In fact, initially we only built it for ourselves (as a fun weekend project), but as we shared it with more people,
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by jmadeano 11mo ago
And that is totally fair! I enjoy having control over my browser, as well. So much so that I built an extension that could help me with it :) I didn't build this so I could make money, it was a side project that I tinkered with (after
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by jmadeano 11mo ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but that is exactly what we do :)
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by jmadeano 11mo ago
Trust me, as a firefox user, it pains me too! But it is undeniable that Chromium browsers have a massive market share. I'd love to see Firefox/some non-chromium browser win. More context: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x
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by jmadeano 11mo ago
> I don't understand why we need VC-backed extensions to filter sites, these tools have existed for a long time under open-source codebases and community-driven blocklists. The VCs didn't fund us for this, we pivoted. (shhh don
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by jmadeano 11mo ago
We don't have a board :)
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by jmadeano 11mo ago
> 1. How deep does the modification go? If I request a tweek to the YouTube homepage, do I need to re-specify or reload the tweek to have it persist across the entire site (deeply nested pages, iframes, etc.) If you're familiar with
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by jmadeano 11mo ago
Thanks! I've tried my share of Agentic Browsers, sidebars, etc. Most of them don't work that well, and even as they get better, I am just generally not sold on the vision. Sure, there are some amount of "chores" that I n
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by jmadeano 11mo ago
> It would be helpful for you to share the privacy policy of the API service as well. We have standard data processing agreements with any and all LLM providers that we use. These include do not train/retain provisions (whether you
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by jmadeano 11mo ago
Appreciate it!
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by jmadeano 11mo ago
We'd love to do something like that! We can currently do things like "Hide content that mentions the word {X}" or "Hide content from {author}". Basically, behind the scenes it will implement a set of keywords to fil
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by jmadeano 11mo ago
I run this one, but valid that you don't know or trust me ;) Totally hear you on the permissions/access, and there isn't really a workaround: In order for us to be able to execute your scripts that do powerful things (send no
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by jmadeano 11mo ago
Fair feedback. If you scroll down (or press "See it in action") there are some examples. We definitely could invest more in a flashy landing page, but we're early, and we've focused more on trying to build a product that
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by jmadeano 11mo ago
I think the space is wide open and depends what you consider enshittified. For example: Hate Google AI overviews? Delete them. Tired of the slop on YouTube Shorts? Block shorts altogether. Tired of going to a recipe site to find a simple re
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by jmadeano 11mo ago
Frankly, this wouldn't be possible without the investment/cloud credits. And that is a shame because I think this is something that should exist in the world (even if I'm not the one building it). We're trying to make th
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by jmadeano 11mo ago
It is definitely possible, but not straightforward. With Manifest V3, the only way you can do this stuff is with the browser userScripts API. That is the only way you can execute remote code within the browser (and each script is considered
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by jmadeano 11mo ago
Oh that's good to hear! You admittedly gave me a small heart attack just a few minutes after posting (and all the logs on my end looked healthy). The phantom crashes/failures are the scariest. But glad we seem to be holding up so
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by jmadeano 11mo ago
I'm a big fan of local myself, but unfortunately the local models aren't there yet. Even of the closed-source models, many surprisingly struggle with relatively simple requests in this domain. Don't get me wrong, there are a
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by jmadeano 11mo ago
Oh great point! We do have the privacy policy included directly on the site but I cut out a lot of the onboarding content if you don't have the extension installed. Working on it now! Edit: The site is an entangled mess of state machi
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by jmadeano 11mo ago
The AI slop is already all around us. We thought it was about time to use LLMs to combat slop. And if you don't want to use AI and just want to install other's scripts (with no sign up required), that is also totally valid and sup
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by jmadeano 11mo ago
From another comment: > Think of us like Tampermonkey/some other userscript manager. The scripts you run have to go through our script engine. That means that any data/permission your script needs access to, our extension needs
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by jmadeano 11mo ago
> I actually like the idea, not sure about monetization. To be fair, we're not sure about monetization either :) We just had a lot of fun building it and have enjoyed seeing what people make with it. > It also requires access to
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by jmadeano 11mo ago
I agree. I'm a firefox guy myself and it's been painful shifting my workload to chrome for testing + developing this. The extension has a lot of browser engine complexity (and unfortunately us non-chromium folks seem to be a dying

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