Readefine: Reword the Internet

Maker

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Imagine a world where the internet speaks your language. That's the vision behind Readefine. My journey started while scrolling on LinkedIn. As I scrolled past post after jargon-filled post, I realized that while grammar assistants help us write, they don't help us read. Readefine fills this crucial gap. It's a tool that rewords online content, making it understandable and relatable. Whether it's through AI or our community-driven dictionaries, we're making the internet more understandable, one word at a time. With Readefine Pro, this vision expands, offering more features and custom AI prompts. Join us in reshaping how we interact with digital content, making it a space for everyone to understand and be understood.

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1yr ago

Esus 🛡️

Sweet extension! Congrats on your launch! Cool to see you push Safari + Chrome + Firefox + Edge, impressive to have them all haha. Can we hear a bit about your development process and roadmap plans? btw, the 'See it in action' on the landing page is genius. Really makes it clear what it does.

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1yr ago

Andrew Nelson

Maker

@esus thanks! Yeah, I made a build script that can automatically produce all the extension variants from the source, so it's not too much work to support all the browsers. I started building Readefine about 3 years ago, finished the MVP in early 2021 - it was terrible but sort of captured the vision I had for the product. At the time, it was only able to run dictionary replacements (e.g. find and replace). I have a background in NLP, so I knew that eventually I'd be able to add in some sort of auto rewording feature via AI, but AI just wasn't there yet. In 2022, I began prototyping my own language model to reword stuff, but it was slow progress and I was also working through a ton of UI and product enhancements. Then of course OpenAI came out with their GPT models, I got access in July and I immediately began working on the AI rewording feature. In terms of roadmap, I plan on expanding the dictionary feature a bit, introduce a teams dictionary feature for teams, create some settings so you can configure a few things on the dictionary and maybe even word level (e.g. don't show these kinds of readefinitions on this domain, case sensitivity, etc.). I also plan to experiment a bit with Gemini and maybe offer it as an alternative model. I'd also love to automatically reword entire websites using AI, but there are a lot of product challenges to doing that and I need to think more about how the user experience would look.

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1yr ago

Esus 🛡️

@andrewnelson23 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 That first part. Whatttt! Cc'ing @thomasjamesio - Could be an epic collab of Browser Extensions. Amazing story and background, crazy the impact OpenAI had. Roadmap also seems sweet. I'd love to keep watching this product/your building of it. Do you have a twitter/IndieHacker profile or anything?

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1yr ago

David Sawyer

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This man knows his stuff! Layering in AI here is going to gonna take Readefine to the next level.

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1yr ago

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