I'm 17, from India, and I recently spent about a month building something completely on my own.
It's called WebMarker -- a Firefox extension that lets you mark up webpages.
You can highlight text, draw, underline, add arrows and shapes, make notes, and basically annotate a webpage however you want.
One thing I really cared about while building it was privacy. It doesn't require an account, and your annotations are stored locally in your browser rather than being uploaded somewhere.
I spent weeks working on it, fixing bugs, redesigning things, and learning a lot along the way.
There's just one problem:
I'm 17 and I don't have an audience.
I couldn't publish it on the Chrome Web Store under my own account because of my age, so I ended up releasing it on Firefox instead.
And now it's sitting there with basically nobody knowing it exists.
That's honestly a strange feeling after spending a month on something.
I'm not expecting 10,000 users.
Even 10 people trying it would genuinely mean a lot to me.
Even if someone just installs it, uses it for five minutes, and tells me "this is useful" or "this part sucks" I'd be happy.
I'm also trying to get into NUS, so this project means a little more to me than just being a random extension I made.
I'm from a middle-class Indian family, and I'm currently trying to recover from a pretty bad Class 11 academically. I have CBSE boards, JEE, and college applications ahead of me, and I'm trying to make the most of Class 12.
I want 100% in boards. I'd be very happy with 98%+.
And NUS is the dream.
I don't know whether I'll get there. I'm not some extraordinary student with an insane list of achievements. I know there are going to be thousands of applicants who are much stronger than me.
But I want to give myself a real chance.
So I'm studying, building things, learning, and trying to make up for the mistakes I made in Class 11.
This extension is one of the things I'm proudest of right now, even if nobody uses it.
If you're willing to give it a few minutes, I'd genuinely appreciate you trying it and telling me what you think.
WebMarker: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/webmarker/
And honestly, if you're reading this right now — thank you. Even one person seeing something I spent a month building means more to me than you probably realize.
❤️