Show HN: Boost Reader – An online reader I built to stop context switching
I built Boost Reader, which is an online reader with LLM integration. Think of it like Cursor/Windsurf but for reading. Right now, it only supports PDF.
The main features it supports are:
Highlight any text to ask the LLM a question. Summarize the current page. Screenshot a portion of the page and ask the LLM a question about it. The reason I built this is pretty personal: when I read anything technical or in some unfamiliar domain (books, papers, reports), I find myself spending lots of time either googling or GPT-ing concepts or context I don't understand. All that copy and pasting back and forth during reading is such an interrupting experience, it finally started to annoy me enough to attempt to fix it. I just wanted things to happen in one place.
This is mostly a hobby project, but I genuinely think this could be a tremendous help for anyone who experiences the same pain I was. So, I wanted to throw it out here to see if this could be useful to others. It's mostly a personal tool for me right now. But if people like this, I can then perhaps turn this into a larger-scoped project with cooler features.
Link is boost-reader.vercel.app
What do you think? If this something you'd use?