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Switching tabs to Google words while reading is broken. I fixed it in one week!

DEV Community·Divya·28 days ago
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Three weeks ago I was sitting in my college computer lab, pretending to study. My friend next to me was reading an article and kept switching tabs to Google words he didn’t understand. I watched him do it four times in two minutes. I leaned over and said “ bro that’s so annoying, someone should fix that. ” He looked at me and said “ so fix it. ” Six seconds. That was my entire validation process. Y Combinator would be proud. The problem nobody was solving I went home and researched existing Chrome extensions that explain highlighted text. There were a bunch, but every single one had the same fatal flaw. They were context-blind . Explain “monetary policy” on a crypto article? Generic economics definition. Explain “hierarchy” on a Feudalism page? Dictionary definition about ranked levels. Zero awareness of what you were actually reading. Like asking someone to explain a joke and they just define every word in it individually. Pfft!…

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