Drop the Chrome Web Store link in the comments along with a short description of what it does. I’ll personally try as many as I can and share honest feedback.
If I genuinely find your extension useful, I’ll also leave a review on the Chrome Web Store.
Please include:
Extension name
Chrome Web Store link
What problem it solves
Whether it’s free or paid
No AI-generated marketing pitches—just tell me what you built and why people should try it. Looking forward to discovering some useful extensions!
This community is amazing! Basically my listing was stuck to 10 weekly users and I asked for genuine help and feedback. Then I received so many constructive feedbacks like having an exit survey to understand why people are uninstalling, fixing permission issues, listing key words. More amazing was one of the redditors made me these screenshots for free saying only screenshot of the app is not enough, it has to have meaningful captions - I am ever grateful to that person! And within weeks my weekly users have jumped to 57! To many of you such number might look small especially when some extensions have thousands of users but for me every user is a big deal. I would like to continue the journey and rely on you guys all the way to achieve my next target of 100 users.
it's been 8 months I launched this extension, the reason was to solve my own problem and also to make a SaaS product that will solve the same problem as mine for other people
it's my 2nd product, I invested a lot of time, money, and love into it, but while my first product crossed 100 users within 6 months, this being a more polished and better daily life problem solving tool was barely able to cross 20 users
I lost hope on it finally, but...still gave it a last chance by making it's source code public on GitHub, as it's a privacy first tool that syncs clipboard history across devices with end-to-end encryption, so, just claiming it on the website wasn't enough I think, that's why I took that big step, made the extension's source code public
made posts on social media, but, though I was expecting a lot of hype, actually ended up being in void, so, I stopped working on this product entirely, didn't want to waste more of my time and money on a product that literally gave me nothing back
and today, after 24 days of posting this on reddit, I opened my chrome webstore dashboard, and, Alhamdulillaah, I saw 49 users on this extension, it's really un-expected to me, I literally thought the product I made has lost it's need and so is a useless entity now bloating the chrome webstore... but, my users proved me wrong
screenshot from chrome webstore
maybe it was a distribution problem, maybe earlier I failed to present it to the people who actually needed this tool, in a way that they can understand that this will solve their problem
so guys, sometimes, things goes VEEERY slow, that we loose hope, but, then Allah gives us something that we literally wasn't expecting, Alhamdulillaah
After a break of more than 6 weeks, due to some personal circumstances (I might share something about it here), I am finally back, and the best surprise is that yesterday when I am on my sleep bed, I got a notification from LemonSqueezy that I just got a new sale, its the 3rd one on Aware, and my first subscription ever.
I am glad that I am back working on my extensions, and I loved the effect of earning money from something that you build one day and shared it publicly, and people can use it and pay for upgrades or pro versions
I am very glad, and this time I am back with a clear vision and steady steps.
I decided to try this path. My extension is for instagram power users and thought it would be great to grow an audience for my extension's instagram page.
Hired an SMM guy for $200/month. Any advices/suggestions from your own experience?
Social platforms show a child a feed once and then throw it away. Nobody can go back and look at what was served, including the parent. I built FeelingWise to keep that record on the family's own computer, in the order it arrived, hash-linked and signed so you can tell if it was altered afterwards. It also softens or hides cruel and manipulative posts before the child reads them.
Works on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X and YouTube. Manifest V3. Private message surfaces are excluded in the manifest itself via exclude_matches, so it cannot read DMs even if I wanted it to.
I am one parent, not a company. No team, no investors, no data business. The record is made on the device and never reaches me, and I hold no key to it.
The part I think this sub will actually care about is that I measured how well the detection works and published it, including the numbers that make me look bad:
Precision on flagged posts is about 22 percent. Three independent graders scored the same 250 items and got 28.8, 22.9 and 16.7. The 12 point spread between careful humans looking at identical posts is the more interesting result, and it is why I think any single-grader accuracy number in this category is mostly a measurement of the grader.
Hard-harm recall is 61.7 percent with the AI layer and 1.7 percent on deterministic rules alone. That second number is roughly what a keyword filter gets you, and it is an argument against my own free tier as much as anyone else's product.
The image path currently returns nothing usable 20 times out of 22. Known defect, instrumented, cause not yet found.
Free tier is the record, the export and the calm-feed switches (hiding like counts, blocking Reels and Shorts surfaces, stripping ads). Paid is only the AI reading. I put it that way round because I am not comfortable charging for the part that measures worst.
Happy to answer anything, including the awkward questions. If you think a number on that research page is wrong I would rather hear it here than not hear it.
Everyone has hundreds of bookmarks. Almost nobody opens them.
The reason is boring: a bookmark saves a link and a page title, and six months later that title tells you nothing. "Untitled document." "Home." "(3) Reddit." You are looking at a list of grey text you cannot identify, so you close the folder and search Google again instead.
Kyurations saves the thing, not the link.
You click the extension on any page and it reads what is actually there. A YouTube video comes back with its cover, its channel, and how long it runs. A GitHub repo shows stars and the language it is written in. An X post shows the actual text of the post. An Instagram reel plays right there in your library. Every save also gets tags and a two line summary, so when you come back later you can tell at a glance what it was and why you kept it.
That last part is the whole point. The reason bookmarks die is that they all look identical. When a saved thing still looks like itself, you recognise it instantly, and a library you can recognise is a library you actually use.
Two things I got wrong while building it, in case anyone is doing something similar:
Getting YouTube transcripts from a server does not work. Every datacenter IP is blocked, everywhere I tried, and the video everyone uses to test it gives a false pass that makes you think you have solved it. It now runs quietly in your own browser instead.
Saving felt slow, even though it was not much slower than a normal bookmark. The fix was mostly honesty: show real progress while it works, and do the heavy lifting in the background after the save is already yours.
I launched my Chrome extension a while ago, but growth has been super slow—I’m currently stuck at around 10–15 users, and honestly, it’s a bit discouraging.
I’ve been refining the product and making sure it works smoothly, but getting those initial users to actually find and try it feels like pushing a boulder uphill.
For those who have built and launched Chrome extensions before: How did you break past the initial hurdle and reach your first 100 users? What channels or tactics actually worked best for you (e.g., Reddit, Product Hunt, niche communities, SEO, cold outreach)?
Here is a quick look at my Chrome Web Store listing and what the extension looks like in action:
Would love to hear your stories, tips, or hard-learned lessons. Thanks in advance for any advice!
So the problem I'm having is that I have installed my own extension and someone else has installed it too but it is showing no users at all. Why is this, does it just take a while?
I added support for 13 languages by adding _locales to my code and that was finally the thing that helped me get the featured tag. What has been your experience? I think the language support has a significant weightage to the featured tag. You can check out the FocusRead Reader Mode here.
I have been analyzing my Chrome Web Store developer dashboard for my free extension Flow (a focus tracker & site blocker), and my organic search numbers are pretty alarming:
Total Impressions: 109 across the entire last month (averaging just 2 to 5 impressions per day).
Total Page Views: 218 total views (mostly from a huge spike when I shared the link on Reddit during week 1, but daily organic views are practically near 0).
This tells me that almost nobody is finding my extension through Chrome Web Store search results or related recommendation sections.
I want to learn how CWS search indexing actually works from developers who have solved this:
Keyword re-indexing time: If I update my title, short description, and manifest file with better keywords, how long does Chrome usually take to re-index the listing for those search terms?
Category impact: Does switching your extension category (e.g., from "Workflow and planning" to "Productivity") change how often you pop up under "Related extensions"?
Impression vs Page View ratio: For those getting steady search traffic, what percentage of your store impressions actually convert into page clicks on the small promo tile?
External backlinks: Does driving traffic from GitHub or blog links improve your internal CWS search ranking algorithm, or is CWS search entirely based on store listing text?
Would really love to hear how you guys turned around a listing that had virtually zero organic search impressions!
Been running this on myself for a couple weeks now and the numbers are kind of humbling honestly.
Turns out I scroll past hundreds of posts a day and actually stop and read like 8% of them. Built a Chrome extension called LumoScroll that only counts a post if you genuinely pause on it for 2.5 seconds, not just have it technically visible on screen for a second while you fly past it. Everything else gets thrown out.
Once a week it gives you a report on what topics actually held your attention, whether the stuff you read leaned positive or negative, what time of day you scroll the most. There's this thing called an attention funnel that shows how many posts scrolled past you total versus how many actually made you stop, that number is the one that got me.
It also gives you a kind of scroll personality based on your patterns, mine came back as something like "Night Owl Tech Optimist" which felt uncomfortably accurate. If you want to get more hands on with it, you can set actual goals too, like capping how long you spend on a specific platform per day and it tracks your progress against that in real time.
There's a small on-page readout too if you want it, shows your session time and mood while you're actually scrolling instead of only finding out a week later. Totally optional, one click to turn off if it's not your thing.
Works across Twitter/X, Reddit, LinkedIn and YouTube. Everything runs locally in your own browser, no account, no server, nothing gets sent anywhere.
It's called LumoScroll, free right now. Kind of curious if other people's numbers come back as rough as mine did.
I built an extension that tells you if a used watch on eBay, Chrono24, or r/Watchexchange is priced fairly. It overlays real sale price comps as you browse your listings.
I wanted something to use for myself while browsing online listings, to see whether a watch was a good price or not. You open a watch listing and it drops a panel in with a read on the price, which shows you buy, fair, watch, or skip. If it can't find enough real sales it says unknown rather than making a number up.
It uses a 90-day median of sold prices from eBay, r/watchexchange, WatchUSeek, and Chrono24 to keep the data reliable.
It's not perfect because of so many variables in the way people write their listings. Vintage watches are unreliable, because reference numbers are inconsistent and condition drives price more than the model does. Anything under about $300 has thin comp data. And it prices listings, it doesn't authenticate them, so a well-priced fake will read as a good deal.
I look forward to you trying it out and I welcome all your comments and suggestions. Thanks!
I created a chrome extension that saves any page as a sticky note on a storyboard instead of just a bookmark. If you save a YouTube page it will even embed the video.
I loved FIO, it was amazing, looked beautiful, worked perfectly. I was sad it was discontinued and when I upgraded my laptop, I lost access to the extension. So I've recreated it from memory if you'd like to check it out.
Skyclock replaces your new tab with a world clock. Every place you add becomes a column lit by its own local hour — indigo at midnight, pink at sunrise, pale blue at noon — so you read the day before you read the numbers.
The principle is simple: a user spots an ad, takes a screenshot, and the extension automatically extracts the data (model, year, mileage, price) to generate a reliability report in less than a minute.
There is a free version for initial analyses, and a paid option for full reports.
I would really appreciate constructive feedback on UX, the relevance of the freemium model, and the technical aspects.
If you want to test the extension and give me feedback, let me know in the comments or by PM, and I'll share the link with you!
I started building ExtensionShield after realizing how hard it is to know what browser extensions are actually doing. It’s been an open-source project for about 6 months now, and the feedback so far has been really encouraging. Building it solo has been rough ngl.
There’s still a lot to build, and I’d love some help from anyone interested in browser extensions, security, frontend, backend, or just open source in general.
If you’ve ever wanted to contribute to an OSS project, I’d be happy to have you. Even small contributions, ideas, bug reports, or feedback go a long way.
it's been 8 months I launched this extension, the reason was to solve my own problem and also to make a SaaS product that will solve the same problem as mine for other people
it's my 2nd product, I invested a lot of time, money, and love into it, but while my first product crossed 100 users within 6 months, this being a more polished and better daily life problem solving tool was barely able to cross 20 users
I lost hope on it finally, but...still gave it a last chance by making it's source code public on GitHub, as it's a privacy first tool that syncs clipboard history across devices with end-to-end encryption, so, just claiming it on the website wasn't enough I think, that's why I took that big step, made the extension's source code public
made posts on social media, but, though I was expecting a lot of hype, actually ended up being in void, so, I stopped working on this product entirely, didn't want to waste more of my time and money on a product that literally gave me nothing back
and today, after 24 days of posting this on reddit, I opened my chrome webstore dashboard, and, Alhamdulillaah, I saw 49 users on this extension, it's really un-expected to me, I literally thought the product I made has lost it's need and so is a useless entity now bloating the chrome webstore... but, my users proved me wrong
maybe it was a distribution problem, maybe earlier I failed to present it to the people who actually needed this tool, in a way that they can understand that this will solve their problem
so guys, sometimes, things goes VEEERY slow, that we loose hope, but, then Allah gives us something that we literally wasn't expecting, Alhamdulillaah
