While preparing for the workshop, I was reading technical docs. I was trying to understand the meaning of a few lines on the webpage.
And I was like why doesn't an AI chatbot exist on the side to answer this question with the websites context while I am browsing any website.
I was waiting for Google to solve this problem for months. I even updated my chrome browser to see if it came. But it didn't.
Annoyed, I ended up building a chrome extension myself to solve this problem.
I just need to press ctrl + Q on any page and I can talk to a personal AI assistant which has context of that page.
Till yesterday, I thought it would be too hard to build the extension and maybe I don't have the skills to build it.
But it turned out it wasn't that hard by having an AI guide and write the code for me.
I developed it in the Cursor and used another AI tool for having conversation.
And if I would have asked AI to give the complete code in one shot, it would have definitely failed.
I started with the simplest possible code block, tested if it worked as intended. And then built the next piece. And slowly built the entire extension.
I feel happy that I unlocked a new skill yesterday which I thought was too complex.
Here is the repository if you want to try it out: AI Chat Chrome Extension
Launched V2!
- Persistent conversations - Chat history saves automatically and resumes if you need later
- Improved UI and chat rendering
- Copy AI responses
- Most importantly - it has a name now - PageBot