Show HN: I wrote a browser AI assistant without requiring login

[segmondy]

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]

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]

Any plans to open source it?

[djyde]

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.

[djyde]

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]

It looks good