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While browsing through journals and articles, I often needed to just get an overview of that information. So for that, I had to copy the whole text and paste it into an AI chatbot to generate a summary. It is an inconvenience that we are trying to solve here !!!
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- We designed the project structure first with the guidance of docs for Chrome extension
- Defined a manifest.json file and added all scripts and targets for our extension
- Divided the work as frontend and backend and started working and collaborating
- With the help of tools like git and Github, we were able to collaborate while working on features independently
- Once a basic prototype was done, we tested it thoroughly to make it as efficient as possible.
- It involved HTML, CSS, and vanilla JS with a few external libraries like Axios, etc locally installed to support API calls
- Our main challenge was our different time zones. Each of our team belonged to a distinct timezone with no common time to have a proper conversation. Everything happened just through chats while working at different time zones
- We were not very successful in procuring an API key due to budget constraints
- We learned how browser extensions work and how to make them!
- This is the first online international hackathon, so we accomplished well collaboration, communication and team-building
- We learned a lot about how browsers work, what are the core concepts involved in a browser extension, and many more things.
- There are a lot of improvements that can be made to this project
- We have a thought to make it open source enabling a greater reach to a lot of people.