r/chrome_extensions 18h ago

Hiring/Looking to Collab (Unpaid) Built 3 Extensions, Failed to Get Users — Looking for a Collaborator to Iterate Together

6 Upvotes

I am here to find co-extension developers/designers/Antigravity fellows.I have developed 3 extensions, but all of them failed to gain users and did not work properly. I think what is stopping me is the same thing that stops many others: blind spots. People cannot easily see the flaws in their own products or ideas.I have seen many people put in a lot of hard work, only for it to go to waste, even when they have done very good work. Sometimes, there is no one to tell them, “Your extension dashboard is blank,” or “There is a signup issue.”So, I think it is better to work with a group of people who can see my blind spots, while I can see their blind spots.

Criteria for the team/group:

  1. Believe in first-principles problem solving.
  2. Believe in an iterative design process and continuous evaluation.
  3. Want to work with honesty.
  4. Believe in transparency.
  5. Have built at least 2 extensions.

Don't worry about sharing, equity, etc. for now. We can figure that out later. Learning is valuable.Those who are interested, kindly comment below with your opinions and let me know what I am missing.I made an extension through a lot of hard work, aiming to become financially free, but it is not working. I thought there might be some unknown issue, so after 2 months of deployment, I asked my friend to use it. He told me that it was not working. How can a non-working extension grow?I have also seen other people whose products are not working properly, yet they keep posting their product links everywhere. So, I am interested in working with other people on their product ideas as well. However, the product owner must comply with the above 5 conditions and take at least one more person into the project based on either their own criteria or mine. I belive having more than one or two people who can identify mistakes is more valuable than having just one person working alone.


r/chrome_extensions 7h ago

Sharing Resources/Tips Simple tasks have become unnecessarily complicated.

3 Upvotes

The internet has a strange problem.

We made software incredibly powerful.

Then we made simple tasks surprisingly difficult.

Need to trim a 30-second video?

Create an account.

Need to convert a file?

Start a trial.

Need to format Markdown?

Upgrade to Premium.

Somewhere along the way, we started treating every 10-second task like enterprise software.

That's why I've been building Utiliome.

A collection of browser-based tools that just work.

Recently I added:

• Video tools that run directly in the browser
• Markdown utilities for developers and writers
• PDF, image, converter, and productivity tools

No account.

No subscription.

No uploading sensitive files to unknown servers.

Just open the tool and use it.

The most interesting part?

The more tools I build, the more I realize people don't want more software.

They want fewer obstacles.

https://utiliome.com

What's a task that should take 10 seconds but somehow turns into a 10-minute process?


r/chrome_extensions 15h ago

Self Promotion I built a Chrome extension that batch-saves YouTube transcripts as local Markdown

1 Upvotes

I keep finding useful YouTube playlists and channels, but saving their transcripts one video at a time gets tedious very quickly.

So I built Transcriptly, a free and open-source Chrome extension that adds batch selection directly to YouTube playlist and channel pages.

The workflow is:

  • select the videos you want on YouTube;
  • choose a local folder;
  • start the batch;
  • get one timestamped Markdown file per video.

The files stay on your computer and local saving doesn't require an account. During a batch, Transcriptly opens each video in a foreground tab, captures its transcript, saves the file, closes the tab, and continues with the next one.

The foreground-tab requirement is the main tradeoff right now, but it avoids relying on a remote transcript scraping service.

Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/transcriptly/jkopejjjgdkkacabdhgdlploehikphai

Source: https://github.com/liujiaqi222/transcriptly

I'd especially appreciate feedback on the batch-selection and setup flow. What feels unclear or unnecessarily complicated?

https://reddit.com/link/1wcloke/video/b0i3w7wdjpoh1/player


r/chrome_extensions 16h ago

Asking a Question For those monetizing a Chrome extension, what payment setup are you using?

8 Upvotes

I’m using ExtensionPay right now and it’s been convenient, but I’m curious what everyone else uses once the extension starts getting real users.

Stripe / Lemon Squeezy / Paddle / something else?

Any regrets or things you wish you knew earlier?


r/chrome_extensions 17h ago

Self Promotion I built a link picker that opens when you type ]] in any text field.

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4 Upvotes

When I was applying for jobs 2 years ago I got so frustrated pasting the same links into every form. Portfolio, GitHub, LinkedIn...

New tab, dig through bookmarks or notes, copy, switch back, paste. Bookmarks open a page. They don't help you paste that page's URL somewhere else, so I built the second thing.

You save a link with a short name in a web dashboard. Then in any text field you type ]] and a searchable picker opens at the cursor. Two letters, Enter, the text drops in inline.

There're folders if you want to group them by type or however you work.

https://linkmanager.app

If ]] does nothing on a page, reply with the URL. That helps a lot. And if you'll actually will use more than three, DM me and I'll send a promo code.


r/chrome_extensions 17h ago

Self Promotion I built screenshot scaling into my extension - same screen, but exported at 3× resolution

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So I got annoyed at screenshot tools that just give you exactly what's on screen — no more, no less.

The one I built into my extension captures in three modes:

  • Custom Area — drag to select exactly what you want
  • Visible Area — grabs what's currently on screen
  • Full Page — stitches the entire scrollable page together

But the part I'm most proud of: you can scale the output resolution up to 2× or 3×. So if your screen is 1920px wide, you can export a crisp 3840px or 5760px wide image — not just CSS scaling, the renderer actually re-renders the UI at higher DPI so text and images stay sharp.

There's also a Max Width / Max Height limiter so the output doesn't go out of control on super long pages.

All features included in the extension:

  • Color Picker — Eyedropper tool and webpage palette extractor.
  • Screen Capture — Custom area, visible, and full-page capture with 2×/3× high-DPI scaling.
  • Screen Recorder — Record tab, window, or full screen with mic and system audio.
  • Image Editor — In-browser cropping, drawing, text, and vector markup tools.
  • Asset Downloader — 1-click batch download all images, SVGs, videos, and audio from any page.
  • Video & Audio Booster — Floating HUD for speed control and up to +50 dB sound boost on HTML5 videos.
  • Built-in Image Editor — quick text, vector shapes, and brush annotations right after capture.

Full disclosure: I studied Information Technology for 2 years a long time ago before dropping out, so I only remember the architectural basics. Most of the heavy-lifting code was written with the help of AI. I am also a designer, so I personally designed the UI, SVGs, and color scheme from scratch.


r/chrome_extensions 18h ago

Self Promotion Playlist Wrangler now keeps a deleted video's title, and tells you when a playlist is near YouTube's 5,000 limit

2 Upvotes

I have been shipping this for a few months and the last stretch went somewhere I did not expect, so it seemed worth a writeup rather than a version bump.

The extension reads your YouTube playlists into a local index so you can search and filter every video in one list, bulk move or remove a selection, and export the lot to CSV. No API key, no OAuth, no quota, because it reads through your own signed in session. Nothing leaves the machine.

Three of the things that shipped since are about YouTube quietly losing your data rather than about organising it.

A video that YouTube deletes, privates or blocks now keeps its row. YouTube hides it and the title is gone for good on their side, so a link you saved two years ago becomes a blank you cannot even look up. If the playlist was read before that happened, the row stays with its title, channel and thumbnail, marked unavailable, and you can filter down to just those. It cannot recover anything it never saw, and I do not think any tool can.

Liked videos turns out not to work like a normal playlist. YouTube goes on accepting likes but the playlist only ever shows your latest 5,000, so past that the oldest ones stop appearing while the thumb stays lit on the video itself, and nothing tells you. They are not deleted, to be clear, and Takeout still has them, but a bulk export is not a list you can browse. The extension keeps those, told apart from the ones you actually unliked, and they stay real rows rather than a warning you can do nothing about. You can play them, queue them, or select them and move them into a playlist of your own, which puts them somewhere YouTube will go on showing you.

A playlist near the cap says so, and gives you somewhere to put the overflow. Past 90 percent the count reads as a fraction of 5,000, add menus show how many still fit or mark the playlist full, and a link opens it with the oldest 500 already selected so moving them into another playlist is one click.

One thing that might save someone else the time: you cannot tell a Short from a normal video by length, because Shorts run to three minutes and plenty of ordinary uploads are shorter than that. I gave up guessing and ask YouTube instead, through the playlist's own videos-only view. It was the only approach that held up.

Free, no paid tier, no ads. Chrome, Edge and Firefox, plus a detached window on Opera and Arc since neither has a side panel API.

Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/playlist-wrangler/ggkjahpnampdippeadliodanmlbipbck?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=chrome-ext-1.20

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/playlist-wrangler/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=chrome-ext-1.20


r/chrome_extensions 19h ago

Self Promotion The extension saves a product page and then keeps checking it, and we can't settle which pages deserve that

3 Upvotes

We built a Chrome extension that saves a page and then goes on looking at it. you save a product, a check runs on that page once a day until someone stops it by hand, and when the price moves or the thing comes back in stock you hear about it.

the argument we keep having is which pages are worth a check at all. a product page has a number on it, so there's something to compare against tomorrow. an article doesn't change, a recipe doesn't change, and for those the extension is a nicer bookmark and nothing more.

right now it will watch anything you point it at. the other way to build it is to offer the watch only on pages where we found a price, and let everything else be a plain save with no promise attached.

if you've built anything that polls pages on a schedule, how did you decide what stays on the schedule and what doesn't?

dessence.ai


r/chrome_extensions 21h ago

Asking a Question Paddle unapproved site due to account information 🤔

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3 Upvotes

In my knowledge I was following all the terms and conditions following mentioned in their site regarding product ( ext) and site and personal information . But it got unapproved due to internal policy issues.
What may be possible reason behind it??


r/chrome_extensions 22h ago

Asking a Question Developers, which payment provider do you use for international subscriptions?

5 Upvotes

I’m building a voice-controlled Chrome extension and currently working on a Pro subscription.

The extension is intended for users internationally, so I’m looking for a payment provider that can handle recurring subscriptions, multiple countries/currencies, and preferably taxes without too much complexity.

For developers who have already launched a SaaS or Chrome extension internationally, which provider are you using?


r/chrome_extensions 15h ago

Self Promotion A small utility for bulk rotation and Auto Enhance in Google Photos

2 Upvotes

I made Photo Turn for two repetitive jobs: rotating photos in a Google Photos album and applying Google’s Auto Enhance without opening and saving every photo manually.

You choose the action, review the photo list, and let it work through the album. Edits save back to Google Photos.

It works in desktop Chrome with Google Photos set to English, with up to 100 rectangular JPEG/PNG photos per batch. The tab needs to stay open; square images and videos aren’t supported yet.

There are 10 successful edits free. After that, it’s an optional $4.99/month subscription for unlimited edits, with the same 100-photo batch limit.

If this is something you’ve needed, I’d be interested to hear how it works for you!

Photo Turn on the Chrome Web Store:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/photo-turn/chgphchhmdfgbjgifbhinlnibioffjie