BrowserMate

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  Team Win

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  Cup Stacking Champs 2022

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  Text message of content and website used by Ryan send by the extension.

Inspiration

There's not enough tracking on the internet.

What it does

Browsermate is a configurable web extension that allows a responsible adult to recieve a text notification if the browser visits a specifed URL (i.e age-inappropriate)

How we built it

• Front-end: Javascript browser extension
• Backend: Python flask web app
• Text Processing: OpenAI API calls
• Twilio: SMS Communication

Challenges we ran into

• OpenAi is a time thief.
• Githubs auth token scanner
• Guest Wifi/Eduroam
• Late Vegan Pizza delivery

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Building something
• Learnings

What we learned

• Gained insight into the browser extension ecosystem.
• Experience deploying cloud hosted apps.
• Reinforces the importance of environment variables.
• A million tabs is too many tabs.

What's next for BrowserMate

• Multiple URL Support
• Content scanning.
• Keyword filtering.
• Agressive monetisation.

Built With

• api
• coup
• gunicorn
• heroku
• javascript
• ngrok
• openai
• python
• twilio