It's a cool idea, but it's imho really dumb to do something like that as a web service. It should be in the standard toolkit, like GTK.
Great point—we're offering the browser plugins as a first step in order to gauge interest, make tweaks, and demonstrate consumer interest. We are in talks with medium to large companies regarding integration, and hope to have BeeLine built into existing apps/platforms soon!
Did a Show HN a couple months ago and wanted to circle back now that we've got Chrome and Firefox plugins (with custom colors, faster execution, multiple font sizes, and keyboard shortcut activation) instead of just bookmarklets. Feedback appreciated!
I don't think this works with HN.
Yeah, the plugins are designed to work with pages that have large blocks of text (news articles, wikipedia pages, fan fiction). It doesn't work as well, and generally isn't as necessary, on the shorter lines/paragraphs found in comment threads. But we're always updating the plugins, so hopefully this will come soon!