Jway Assistant: AI-Powered Amazon Review Summarizer

Inspiration

Shopping on Amazon can feel overwhelming, with thousands of reviews to sift through. We wanted to simplify the decision-making process by providing quick, AI-driven summaries of customer feedback. Our goal was to help users save time, make informed purchases, and avoid buyer’s remorse by highlighting key insights from reviews—without endless scrolling.

What It Does

Jway Assistant is a Chrome extension that analyzes Amazon product reviews and provides a concise, AI-powered summary directly on the product page. It:

Fetches real-time reviews using Rainforest API.
Uses OpenAI’s API to extract key pros, cons, and overall sentiment.
Displays a clear, easy-to-read summary to help shoppers make informed decisions quickly.

How We Built It

Backend with FastAPI – We used FastAPI to handle API requests efficiently, providing a fast and lightweight backend for processing data.
AI Summarization with OpenAI – We leveraged OpenAI’s API to analyze reviews and generate meaningful summaries, ensuring clarity and relevance.
Data Retrieval with Rainforest API – We integrated Rainforest API to fetch live Amazon reviews, ensuring users get up-to-date insights.
Chrome Extension UI – The front end was built to seamlessly integrate with Amazon’s product pages, displaying AI-generated summaries in an intuitive way.

Challenges We Ran Into

Fine-tuning AI Summaries – Early iterations produced vague or overly generic summaries. We refined our AI prompts to improve accuracy and relevance.
API Rate Limits – Managing calls to OpenAI and Rainforest API while keeping responses fast and efficient was a key challenge.
Chrome Extension Debugging – Ensuring smooth communication between the frontend and backend, handling CORS issues, and optimizing performance took extra effort.

Accomplishments That We're Proud Of

Successfully integrating AI-driven summarization into a user-friendly Chrome extension.
Creating a real-time product review assistant that enhances shopping experiences.
Overcoming API limitations to ensure smooth, fast, and reliable review summaries.

What We Learned

How to optimize AI-generated summaries for clarity and usability.
Effective API management to avoid rate limits while maintaining performance.
Best practices for Chrome extension development, including UI design and backend integration.