SumBuddy
AI
browser ai assistant
SHOW HN2025
24points
11comments
#1,846of 3,837 in 2025
Top 49%of 2025 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
2 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score +0.17.
Privacy: 0 for, 1 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Looks good and a useful product
From 2 comments
It looks good
mayne on HNIt's a great product overall! However, as others have mentioned, if it can't be open source and requires granting strong permissions, I'm concerned about the security implications.
codenote on HN
Objections
Requires broad host permissions, raising privacy and security concerns
From 2 comments
Fair enough. I asked because an extension like this has access to too much information which I don't like from a privacy stand point. Thanks for sharing though!
richin13 on HNIt's a great product overall! However, as others have mentioned, if it can't be open source and requires granting strong permissions, I'm concerned about the security implications.
codenote on HN
Requests
Open source the code
From 2 comments
Any plans to open source it?
richin13 on HNyou could give paying customers access to the code to run themselves (not open source) if that works for you/your privacy-aware customer they can inspect the code/build it/ run…
tough on HN
Questions
Any plans to open source it?
From 1 comment
Any plans to open source it?
richin13 on HN
Alternatives named
Firefox built-in AI chatbot
From 1 comment
For those that don't know, Firefox already has a built in AI assistant that you can use with your own models or point to external models…
segmondy on HN