What it does AskSUSI is a web frontend for “Susi,” an open-source personal assistant meant to compete with Siri and Cortana. The README describes an AI combining pattern matching, internet data, and inference engines to produce personalized feedback. The repository itself appears to be a CSS-heavy web interface — the actual intelligence likely lives in the separate susi_server backend.

The interesting bit The project sits at the intersection of admirable ambition and classic FOSS hubris: “made by the people for the people,” aiming to “answer the remaining unanswered questions.” That’s a tall order for 1,491 stars and a CSS codebase.

Key highlights

• Part of the larger FOSSASIA Susi ecosystem (server, clients, skills)
• Web-based interface with social/chat integrations (Gitter, Twitter)
• Explicitly modeled after commercial assistants but open-source
• Community-driven skill expansion model
• README dates from roughly 2016-2017 era of assistant hype

Caveats

• README is vague on actual implementation; no architecture details, API docs, or setup instructions visible
• “CSS” as primary language suggests this repo is largely presentation layer, not the “AI” itself
• Heavy use of future tense (“will have,” “will be able”) suggests aspirational rather than delivered features
• No screenshots, demos, or concrete examples in the provided sources

Verdict Worth a look if you’re researching historical open-source assistant projects or FOSSASIA’s ecosystem. Skip it if you need a working alternative to Siri today — the smarts appear to be elsewhere, and what’s here is mostly ambition and CSS.