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12 points by blixt ↗ HN
I made this tool for myself back in October after GPT-4 Vision came out. Being able to press Option+C, write a quick question, and hit Enter, with only the screenshot of the current tab as the context was a quick flow that I found very useful.

I know there are most certainly more polished solutions out there now, but as we wait for the ChatGPT desktop app with builtin vision support I figured I'd release this now under an MIT license for whoever might find it useful. Plus this just automates your browser, meaning there's no need to put in API tokens or the like (you do have to be logged into ChatGPT, however).

I don't think I'll put it on the Chrome Web Store, so the installation steps are a bit annoying, but if even one person finds use in this, I'll be happy!

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huntercaron
Fun idea. What are common use cases for this? The Chrome Web Store would be nice to make it easier to try out.
blixt
I use it for very random things while I browse the web. One example was ordering train tickets in France, I asked it to summarize all the options I was presented with.
simssousa15
Hi, From what I've seen in your repo README, it seems like the user is redirected to a new window with ChatGPT. However, I think it would be much desirable if somehow the user could receive its answer that little window (chrome extension like) instead of being redirected. Do you think that is possible?
blixt
It is possible but I wanted to maintain the full feature set of ChatGPT, plus it feels less shady to do it this way. What I did consider is just leaving the tab in the background so you can use it as a dumping ground for “side quests” while browsing the web.