Launched this week
Clico
Every textbox, supercharged
730 followers
Every textbox, supercharged
730 followers
Clico is a powerful Browser extension designed to be your ultimate writing and productivity partner. Unlike traditional AI tools that require you to copy and paste text back and forth, Clico lives directly inside your browser. It reads and understands the context of the webpage you are currently viewing, allowing it to perform tasks with an unmatched level of relevance and intelligence.
Love Clico's approach to building the personal context layer and helping users utilize it for everyday work, but where would Clico store my personal information? Could it be deployed locally?
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@jinhao_bai2 hey jinhao, good point! currently we don't store user's sensitive personal information and the only thing that we need to use is the custom instruction that you set up previously, which is kinda like a system prompt. Also local deployment is something we've thought about before, might considering supporting that in the future
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Congrats on the launch, the idea is actually really cool. But ngl this is kinda scary 😅 If it works on any text input, then what about passwords, credit cards and private stuff? That’s a LOT of access for a browser tool. I wanted to try it but it feels risky to install
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@sakardev bruhhh it can output on any text field but not getting access to it lmao. clico will only capture web context when you summon it and we intentionally forbid it to get sensitive data like passwords and stuff cuz i use it as well XD
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@randhir_kumar7 I'd recommend using the voice input if you are really a fast typing person. Also since we capture context at the time when user actually summon Clico, it really doesn't matter how fast they type. For the privacy concern, we intentionally avoid collecting sensitive context and will support another feature to let ppl decide which pages they'd like Clico to be used
Cool feature, @alex_ta) How do you actually handle privacy and sensitive data when Clico reads the context of browser tabs? Is everything processed locally or sent to your servers?
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@denious Good question Denis. We pre-set filters to forbid Clico getting access to sensitive data like passwords etc. and also have a LLM-free privacy layer to keep the data clean before actually involve external LLM api call to make sure nothing will be leaked to external LLM providers like OpenAI and Anthropic
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@denious Since a lot of people are asking about this, we are also considering adding a switcher where you can decide which tab Clico can get access to to make sure 100% privacy protection
@alex_tao that's a smart idea I guess — it would make the privacy story much stronger.
Looking forward to seeing it ship!
What about outlook web client?
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@yoel_bennesher yeahh it works just as in Gmail. Try it out and let me know if you like it:)
Most AI writing tools make you leave what you're doing, paste the content in, get the output, and then paste it back. This living inside the browser and reading the current page context is the bit that changes the actual workflow. The @ feature to pull in a separate tab as context is the thing that would make this useful for design work specifically, being able to reference a live spec doc and a competitor's UI side by side without switching windows is exactly where the time goes.