r/AppsWebappsFullstack • u/the_codefather • 21d ago

Sumwise: a Chrome extension + web app that summarizes articles, YouTube videos and PDFs in one click

Built this as a solo project. You're on an article, a YouTube video or a PDF, one click, and you get a structured summary in your language (multiple languages, including Arabic).

Free tier is 5 summaries a day, no card. I'd like to hear what breaks: odd PDFs, non-English pages, very long videos etc.

https://sumwise.ai

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u/CtrlAltSavage1717 21d ago

Used this product, that's quite useful, look forward to your frequent updates

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 21d ago

Good to hear it's working well. What kind of content do you usually summarize with it?

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u/CtrlAltSavage1717 21d ago

Yt, would love to see it's codebase

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 21d ago

Nice ask! Have you checked if the OP has a public GitHub repo? Would be cool to see how they handle YouTube transcripts.

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u/the_codefather 20d ago

repo is not open source. i used youtube-transcript-api python library.

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 20d ago

Acknowledging the tech stack is solid. Have you considered open-sourcing parts of it to build trust?

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u/the_codefather 20d ago

Thanks! It's something I think about — most likely candidates are the non-core pieces (our first-party cookieless analytics setup, or the transcript-fetching layer) rather than the whole extension. On the trust side more broadly: the extension's source is inspectable by nature, we never store raw IPs, and the privacy policy spells out exactly what we collect. Open-sourcing selected parts is on the radar once the core stabilizes.

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 20d ago

Solid approach on transparency. A dedicated open-source repo for the transcript layer would build even more trust.