Show HN: AirmailAI, a BYOK LLM chat app with a browser extension backend

3 pointsposted 6 hours ago
by blake__dev

6 Comments

mys1

4 hours ago

Do you envision this taking context from the webpage the user is on, similar to how Chrome's Gemini extension works?

blake__dev

4 hours ago

Not particularly, this is more designed to be a separate chat app than a chat-with-the-webpage extension. Also, parsing webpages for LLM ingest is not the easiest thing in the world in my experience. You could dump the whole html but that's a LOT of tokens to be spending if you're using your own API key (vs using a subscription model like with first party extensions).

AdityaK_9999

5 hours ago

What is the difference between this Chat application and the others...what does this aim to achieve

blake__dev

5 hours ago

Before I started work on it, I looked around at all of the available options, and none of them really fit what I wanted:

- easy to use

- fast

- not a huge desktop app

so I decided to make my own! AirmailAI (if you're not running it locally) is a one-click install from the Chrome Web Store, the TTFT overhead is within 50ms of raw https API requests, and the install size/memory requirements are very reasonable (<2MB on disk, ~60MB RAM while running).

ramon156

4 hours ago

name some examples. easy to use is opinioned,

blake__dev

4 hours ago

Sure. I tried Open WebUI, SillyTavern, AnythingLLM, etc. I wasn't a fan of installing a 500MB desktop app, or having to run a webhost locally, or having to configure a bunch of settings just to chat with the newest LLM.