We build a Free Chrome Extention for Summarizing any Web Article using the Power of AI
It took us less than 7 hours to fully develop a low-code AI-powered Google Chrome extension that summarizes any article online.🧵
This is how we did it and why:
WHY?
Anyone who scrolls through masses of articles on a daily basis can probably relate. They can get long, boring, and mislead the key points. Getting an article summary has to be quicker.
Naturally, we turned to Open AI for the answer. AI model named text-DaVinci-003 was able to summarize long and unstructured articles in seconds, even highlighting only the main points of the story. Unlike us, AI finds access & knows how to read closed/paid articles from bigger publishers and return an article summary.
If you need an evaluation of the specific article’s content Open AI provides the quickest look into any article online. Chatting with ChatGPT is cool and all, but this could be quicker and simpler.
HOW?
But how to get the same article summary in just one click? While ChatGPT struggling at its capacity during our prime work hours we would usually have to wait for the article summary. To make it easier for our workflow we decided to build a Chrome extension to speed things up & as we build in public, to share it with other content creators online.
We built this Chrome extension using a low-code approach, using React for the front end, Mui for styling, Open AI, and Lambda for security.
This is our most efficient way to build Open AI Chrome extension yet. We’re enabling you to get access to any online article summary and increase reading efficiency with only one click!
If you are interested in what we made, feel free to take a look and try it out: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/summarize-article/neaojoggfnkoimnhaedohmmignohhebh
To build in public means we can’t wait for your opinions. What do you think? Leave your review in the comments.
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I thought this was a bit long... so I downloaded the extension and used it here. This is the output:
"This article discusses the development of a free Chrome extension for summarizing any web article using artificial intelligence (AI). The extension is called summarize.ai, and it was created by a team of engineers and data scientists from the Netherlands. The extension uses AI to extract the most important points from a web article, and then generates a brief summary of the article. The team has also released a web application version of the extension which will enable users to summarize longer articles. The extension is free to use, and the team hopes that it will be a useful tool for those who are short on time or want to quickly review a large amount of content."
As it turns out... it works well!
Great job, team!
Hey dude,
It's been almost a year to you chrome extension, how is it going? Are you active with it still?
We have around 300 active users from 900 installs, but we are not working on this project. 0 updates last 6 months.
This comment was deleted 3 years ago.
Glad you enjoyed it, Hana!