I Built a Chrome Extension That Turns Long Articles Into Structured Notes, and It Taught Me Two Expensive Lessons

I Built a Chrome Extension That Turns Long Articles Into Structured Notes, and It Taught Me Two Expensive Lessons When I started building R-Searcher , I was not trying to create another AI chat wrapper. The idea was much narrower. I wanted a tool that could help people read difficult articles faster without pretending to replace the source. Not an AI search engine. Not a universal assistant. Just a reading layer that sits on top of the article already open in the browser and helps extract value