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Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web

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Re: Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web

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Post by jmadeano »

mannanj wrote: post #134
jmadeano wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 had people who were planning to make a simple, standalone chrome extension just build it using tweeks instead which is super cool to me. And congrats on your launch! Anything you're willing…

I’m curious about using a solution like the one you were offering or helping to figure out how. Would you be willing to chat about it? What’s left to do to get value out of it for me as a tech user wanting to get jobs and noticed?

See the email in the main post. Happy to chat.

Re: Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web

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Post by insin » 

    observe(document.body, {childList: true, subtree: true})
as a Service

I didn't realise how rough the UX around the userScripts API was, but your onboarding page does a good job of walking the user through it.

If you edit the userscript metadata in a tweek then share it, the original metadata is still displayed on the site and when you install.

You can cheekily add existing user scripts (used to test the above):

Hacker News: https://www.tweeks.io/share/script/97ba1102db5a46f88f34454a

Twitter: https://www.tweeks.io/share/script/1eed748ffbe74fce93c677ed

Are there plans to add the ability to preview the source before installing? Absent any other indicators that a tweek is legit, I'm never clicking that Install button without being able to check it first.

Re: Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web

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Post by jdprgm »

I had basically this exact idea too a few months ago and at the time already found a few implementations attempting it. https://robomonkey.io/ being one example I found so didn't pursue it further.

Also it turns out llm's are already very good at just generating Violentmonkey scripts for me with minimal prompting. They also are great for quickly generating full blown minimal extensions with something like WXT when you run into userscript limitations. These are kind of the perfect projects for coding with llm's given the relatively small context of even a modest extension and certainly a userscript.

I am a bit surprised YC would fund this as I think building a large business on the idea will be extremely difficult.

One angle I was/am considering that I think could be interesting would be truly private and personal recommendation systems using LLM's that build up personal context on your likes/dislikes and that you fully control and could own and steer. Ideally local inference and basically an algo that has zero outside business interests.

Re: Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web

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Post by pkamb »

The extension I've always wanted is a one that makes every link to a modern story on the New York Times, CNN, ESPN, etc. load using their same websites from like 2004.

https://web.archive.org/web/20041207071752/http://www.cnn.co...

Make every new page I load look like this, or a slightly cleaned up or mobile-specific version.

Re: Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web

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Post by bambax »

glenstein wrote: post #51

Looks great, and a brilliant idea to bring back the Greasemonkey way of doing things. Also, perhaps the first practical use case for LLM-In-The-Browser I've seen in the wild (sidebars or AI startpages are very half-posterier'd ideas for what AI in the browser should mean imo). Like some others here, Firefox is my daily driver and would look forward to anything you could bring our way.

> bring back the Greasemonkey way of doing things

Greasemonkey still works great, no?

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