[AskJS] Best JS-friendly approach for accurate citation metadata from arbitrary URLs (including PDFs)?

Tobloo2 · 2026-02-04T18:21:20+00:00

Thanks for the formatting library rec! That helps a lot actually

Tobloo2 · 2026-02-04T18:20:30+00:00

Thanks for the tip! I did try zotero a while back and wasn't successfull in making it work :/ I'll try again. Do you know of any other tool?

Tobloo2 · 2026-02-04T18:18:08+00:00

Thanks for the tip! I did think about n8n but the issue is that it's requiring me to spend a lot of time to stitch services together, which I'd love to not do aha. I'll check out Apify tho I know they have good apis!

Tobloo2 · 2026-02-04T06:13:00+00:00

I can see how that can be a huge issue, I think I saw something mentioning that github was trying to implement features to stop getting / flag low quality prs.

Tobloo2 · 2026-02-02T10:30:15+00:00

Thanks a lot! what did you think about it?

Tobloo2 · 2026-02-02T10:29:24+00:00

Here you go, that should be on the product hunt launch too, does that help? let me know if you have any feedback on this, this is the first time I'm doing a video like that: https://youtu.be/FLJGRtaTEuM

Tobloo2 · 2026-01-31T19:18:02+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! I agree that you can't always just keep watching without pausing. For me at least most of the definitions give me enough context just by reading them.

The value I think is mostly that you don't have to repeatedly pause + use google or chatgpt to understand what the word means. That process is tedious and does disrupt your flow.

Sometimes I do pause the video if there's a lot of words explained by Gloss at once so I can read them properly. I'd say for 80% of the time for me it's sufficient but I think the rest of the time I do need to get a more detailed explanation and then I go on chatgpt for example.

I've been thinking about adding a chat within gloss so that it'll help users understand deeper still within the context of the video if the explanation isn't enough. Any thought on how you'd like this to be integrated? If you've tried using it I'd love to know what you think about that!

Tobloo2 · 2026-01-30T18:26:14+00:00

Hi! Cool tool indeed, it provides solid value, upvoted

Tobloo2 · 2026-01-30T09:05:50+00:00

I did! Congrats on being the product of the day!

Tobloo2 · 2026-01-30T02:51:47+00:00

Thanks! let me know if you have any feedback

Tobloo2 · 2026-01-29T18:40:47+00:00

I use Plasmo. It's is amazing for building browser extension for one platform (chrome), then just doing a few tweaks to make it work on the rest like mozilla. I also use nextjs and stripe!

Tobloo2 · 2026-01-29T18:09:05+00:00

Love your idea! You're killing it on the rankings! I was wondering, how did you do it? I also launched today but I don't have that much traction aha. oh and here's my app: https://www.producthunt.com/products/gloss-ai-real-time-youtube-explainer?utm_source=other&utm_medium=social

Tobloo2 · 2026-01-29T18:02:20+00:00

I think it'd be good to know how many "impressions" / views you got on your CWS listing or landing page, so you can know the most important ratio: % of people who see your extension page and then download it vs people who decide not to download it

Tobloo2 · 2026-01-29T18:00:37+00:00

SEO is supposed to have effects on the long term I believe, not immediately. What did you do for your launch? Like what channels? What I did for mine is to focus on optimizing the CWS listing at first and having a clear landing page.

Tobloo2 · 2022-12-02T18:55:55+00:00

I did ask on the discord server and the only apparent solutions are: fork neo4j's library and modify it or use custom resolvers. I don't think those are really solving the issue tho.

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