Building a Chrome extension that summarizes articles in your own language — launching Sept 17
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Hi everyone 👋
I'm Krzysztof, a solo developer from Poland. In two weeks I'm launching
K-TL;DR — a Chrome side-panel extension that turns any article into a
bullet-point summary, always in the reader's own language (even if the
article is in French, Chinese or Arabic).
The problem I built it for: I read a lot of long-form content in several
languages and wanted ONE click that gives me the takeaways without leaving
the page or pasting text into ChatGPT.
A few things I learned building it solo:
• Extracting clean article text is harder than the AI part — ads, cookie
banners and comment sections poison the input. Mozilla Readability solved it.
• Server-side limits are non-negotiable. Anything the client can claim, the
client can fake.
• I ran 5 self-imposed security/code audits before publishing. Best decision
of the whole project.
Two questions for you:
1. What's the one feature you'd expect from a summarizer that most tools miss?
2. Do you read more in your native language or in English?
Free plan is 3 summaries/day if you want to try it — feedback very welcome 6 views

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