About
About, and the promise
BetterHuskyCT is a free, open-source student project. These are the things it promises, and the things it does not.
What it promises
- Free. No price, no paid tier, no ads, no sign-up. Nothing in it will be put behind payment.
- Open source. The code is MIT-licensed. A version released under it stays open for everyone to use, change and run, whatever happens to this project afterwards.
- Yours. The helper keeps course data locally and delivers it to the BetterHuskyCT page you open. Back up and restore exports the website's copy; background snapshots stay in the extension's local storage.
- No tracking, no selling. The app adds no analytics, advertising or tracking, and nothing it holds is sold or shared. The one time text leaves your browser is when you press Summarize or turn on the AI dates.
What it does not promise
- The AI features run on the free tiers of third-party services. Their limits, terms or availability can change, and the AI features are what would be limited first. Nothing else depends on them.
- HuskyCT changes. When it does, the helper can stop working until it is fixed.
- One student maintains this in spare time. There is no support promise and no timetable.
- This site's address is betterhuskyct.vercel.app. If it ever moves, you can run your own copy, and Back up and restore brings your data to the new address.
What it costs, and who pays
It runs on free plans: the site on Vercel's free hosting, summaries on the free tiers of Z.ai, Google Gemini and Groq. If it ever cost real money, the AI summaries would be what scales back; everything else runs in your browser and costs nothing to serve. If donations are ever accepted, they will be optional and unlock nothing.
Don't take it on trust
The extension's package is built from the public code by GitHub, and every release carries a checksum and a build attestation anyone can check. How to check it
Who, and where to reach them
A student project, not affiliated with UConn or Blackboard. Questions and problems go to GitHub issues; a security problem is better reported privately.