Inspiration

FB messenger for the floating UI concept

the title "anjin" comes from the recent Shogun series

He was a character everyone thought was going to die but he survived 😄

The word means "pilot".

What it does

"Friction is the most powerful force in the universe"

Web-anjin lowers the friction of getting LLM responses based on the content you're viewing when you go to a website since you don't have to leave a site anymore to use your assistant

The point-and-ask feature lets you highlight parts of webpages like you do with inspect-element on chrome devtools and lets you ask more specific questions on the content in a webpage

You also get full-text semantic search on any webpage you visit

How we built it

As a Chrome extension with react and typescript

API is serverless was IaC with sst.dev and groq for inference

Challenges we ran into

using react in a Chrome extension was a bit tricky

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Cranked out something useful to build on in future

What we learned

  • Chrome extension development

  • groq API

What's next for Web Anjin

the moon 🚀

we can point out shady patterns in different sites and mark sites as safe-or-not

leave room for community feedback so the internet is a safer place for the uninitiated

we can suggest prompts when the user opens up the search dialog

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