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RAJNESH CHARAN
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🚀 Introducing Screen Buddy, Your AI Companion for Windows 11! 🤖
Every developer knows the pain of pressing Alt + Tab 50 times a day just to understand complex text or translate something.
The Problem? Highlight ➜ Copy ➜ Switch to Browser ➜ Paste into ChatGPT ➜ Switch Back. It breaks your focus and kills your productivity.
💡 The Solution: Screen Buddy I built Screen Buddy, a cute and lightweight AI companion that helps you understand text without leaving your workflow.
✨ How does it work?
Select text in any app, Code Editor, PDF, Browser, or Terminal.
Get instant explanations in Simple English + Urdu translation right beside your cursor.
No copy-pasting. No screen switching. Just select and understand!
🛠️ Built With & Key Features:
Core: Tauri v2 + Rust
Text Detection: Native Win32 UI Automation - zero screenshots or OCR
Performance: Optimized rendering with around 1% idle CPU usage
AI Engines: Run privately with local Ollama models
Open Source: 100% open source for everyone to explore, use, and contribute!
🎉 The response has been amazing! After seeing 96+ developers clone the project on GitHub within just 48 hours, I decided to make Screen Buddy fully open source. #ScreenBuddy #OpenSource #AI #SoftwareEngineering #BuildInPublic #DeveloperTools #Windows11
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