Great minds think alike :) I think it is important for users to have more control over how the browse the internet, so I'm happy to see others building in the space!
> 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.
We've thought about full blown extensions and maybe we'll get there, but I'd wager that there is gap between users who would install/generate a userscript vs a full blown extension. Also a one-click install userscript is much simpler to share vs full chrome store submission/approval (the approval time has been a pain for many developers I've talked with). With that said, this is early days and we're still figuring out what people want.
> 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.
I've definitely considered the idea of your own personal, tunable recommendation system that follows you across the web. And I have some background there (worked on recommendations systems at Pinterest), but recommendation systems are very data hungry (unless we regress to the XGBoost days), and task of predicting will/won't the user like this image (binary) is vastly easier than operating over the entire page UI. Definitely not impossible, but we aren't there yet. For now, I just want to make it super easy for you to generate your own useful page mods
> 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.
We've thought about full blown extensions and maybe we'll get there, but I'd wager that there is gap between users who would install/generate a userscript vs a full blown extension. Also a one-click install userscript is much simpler to share vs full chrome store submission/approval (the approval time has been a pain for many developers I've talked with). With that said, this is early days and we're still figuring out what people want.
> 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.
I've definitely considered the idea of your own personal, tunable recommendation system that follows you across the web. And I have some background there (worked on recommendations systems at Pinterest), but recommendation systems are very data hungry (unless we regress to the XGBoost days), and task of predicting will/won't the user like this image (binary) is vastly easier than operating over the entire page UI. Definitely not impossible, but we aren't there yet. For now, I just want to make it super easy for you to generate your own useful page mods