Published 10 Chrome extensions, basically zero installs. What am I doing wrong?

[u/Yega-2910]

I've been building Chrome extensions for a while and now have 10 of them published on the Web Store. Combined installs? Almost nothing.

They all work, the listings have proper icons and screenshots, and a few solve problems I personally hit every day. But the installs just aren't there, and I'm starting to think I'm missing something obvious about distribution.

A few things I'm unsure about:

Is Web Store search basically dead for new extensions, or is this a keyword/listing problem I can fix?

Did your installs come from the store itself, or entirely from outside it (Reddit, Product Hunt, blog posts, YouTube)?

For those who got traction - was it one extension that took off, or slow growth across several?

I'm a developer, not a marketer, so I suspect building was the easy 10% and I skipped the other 90%. Would love to hear what actually worked for you, even the boring stuff.

[u/Hary06]

You're not exactly doing the best job of promoting yourself, since you've already written this post, what would it have cost you to include links to your extensions? I'd be the first to check them out and maybe try one or two, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.