Daniel - Chrome Extensions Income

Every week I will send: 1 extension idea with market data, 1 interview with a builder making real money, 1 AI tip for shipping faster. Free. Takes 5 min to read. Join ➡️ indieextensions.substack.com.

Companies are hiring fewer PMs. Fewer BAs. Fewer analysts. Not with announcements. Just quietly not backfilling when someone leaves. If your team is shrinking and your workload isn't, you already know. The question is whether you'll have a plan B before they make the decision for you.

@tonylab_net solid! what did you did right to get such good result?

There are 12 ways Chrome can recommend an extension organically. I have 6 of them after 36 days. → ext_sidebar ✓ → ext_app_store ✓ → cws_app_promo ✓ → cws_unknown ✓ → ref_webstore ✓ → ref_app_home ✓ Waiting for sources 7-12. Any one of them is the moment everything accelerates. Built alone. Zero spend. 95.3% retention. 46% conversion. This is how you crack the algorithm. ✦ wushu75.github.io/readr #buildinpublic #indiehacker #chromeextension #solofounder #chrome #makerlife #indiedev

@tferris nice work! is this your first extension?

Just launched the Bonesaw Chrome extension. Land on any ecommerce store → it detects the platform → one click to start watching. Price changes. Restocks. New product drops. All tracked automatically from your browser. No more bookmarking product pages and checking manually. Just install and browse like normal. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/bonesaw…

@OutsideKenny nice work! I tried to make something similar with n8n and a RAG but this was a bit tedious will you publish it to the store?

a chrome extension + web app that syncs your Twitter likes and bookmarks, auto-categorizes them with AI, and lets you search everything. zero API costs. built for real use. 100% Vibe Coded to perfection! github.com/kennygeiler/pr…

@minosvasilias sweet! is this your first one?

Things that are so easy to build there's no reason not to build them: A Chrome extension that auto-sorts tabs into groups.

@DrAmir0078 simple tools are my favorite ones if your extension takes more than 5 words to explain then it's too complex!

Built and shipped a Chrome extension in hours: Site Purge Pro One click → clears cache + forces fresh reload No UI. No tracking. Just does the job. Sometimes the best tools are the simplest ones. #ChromeExtension #WebDev #BuildInPublic #DevTools #Cloudflare chromewebstore.google.com/detail/kejfjol…

@RichardObr25928 you are building a chrome extension?

When your 'self-care Sunday' plan involves debugging a browser extension for 4 hours straight and still somehow manage to find an hour to meditate

@xoaanya we need to act now before we are forced to!

Will your job get replaced by Al?

Every week I will send: 1 extension idea with market data, 1 interview with a builder making real money, 1 AI tip for shipping faster. Free. Takes 5 min to read. Join ➡️ indieextensions.substack.com.

Used to have days like this: 3 standups, 2 Slack threads going nowhere, one meeting that was an email. Meanwhile my extension dashboard: 14 new installs. While I was in those meetings. That contrast is what made me quit.

@kaaaash____ This is all I need, no lambo, no rolex!

men, is this enough to start ?

@toolsforfans you deliver fast! amazing job!

just added the feature for you to export as JSON and Markdown file!

@PixelOracleAI curious to learn more!

A year ago I quit my dev job to build a browser extension for ChatGPT. No investors, no cofounder, no plan B. Here's what happened. (thread)

@BitcoinCoderBob very useful! will you publish it to the chrome store?

you: downloading annoying .webp files me: saving in the original image file format easy as installing this chrome extension github.com/bitcoin-coder-…

@Rapunzel_hnn locksmith

If you could switch careers right now, what field would you go into??

@justbyte_ just a bit of rice, should be good

What would you do in this situation??

@justbyte_ learn to sell

In 2020: learn to code In 2022: learn to prompt Ai In 2026: learn to command Ai agents In 2027: ??

@bidhanxcode first one: PHP

drop the first programming language you ever touched and the one you use now

@Shay_Slay_ vim

Name the best software you use till date.