as the energy requirement to build new apps drop I find myself creating tools just for me (I used to create them for other people)
the most recent one is readside/dev
I liked elevenlabs reader, but I wanted to have a google-doc style comment bar I could chat with claude code - specifically for technical articles that I didn't understand
Some features I've added: * Highlight and chat with claude code about a specific piece * Save your highlights * Listen to your articles (I do this while I'm in the car) * Use an LLM to improve the readability of the article (remove the cruft that comes from normal scraping) * Use an LLM to increase the text which gets sent to the TTS model (my main gripe with elevenlab reader was it would read the citations) * Save your articles, mark as read * Add "readside .dev/" to the beginning of any article URL and auto import it
It's been fun to prompt new features right when I need them
Open to feedback if you have it
