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Lessons from shipping Chrome extensions in public — metrics, mistakes, and more.
I coded and published 12 extensions in 52 days and documented every single one - all my private data, the numbers, what I learned, and the story of my first financially successful Chrome extension.
How I landed a $1400 Shopify project, used AI to analyze competitors, built a custom product page with metafields, and shipped a full ecom store - all while using a Chrome extension I built myself to sync the theme in real time.
How I got blocked by Twitter, ended up on Bluesky, scraped 13k Reddit comments to find a chrome extension idea, and shipped a free extension to hide reposts from specific accounts — all in one session.
How I built a Chrome extension to export Discord messages by channel, reverse-engineering Discord's internal API, intercepting auth tokens from network requests, and shipping a full UI with HTML, PDF, CSV and JSON export. Full build diary from a $0 to $100K Chrome extension journey.
How I built YouTube Keyword Alert, a Chrome extension that runs background searches on YouTube and notifies you when new videos matching your filters go live. No tab required. Full build diary with CORS workarounds, background search architecture, and UX decisions.
Export Instagram post comments to CSV with pause/resume, Giphy support, and Instagram-native UI. A build diary on GraphQL pagination, Chrome extension design, and why social tools always break.
Save Gmail emails as PDF, HTML, TXT, or JSON without login or invasive permissions. A dev diary on reverse-engineering Gmail, fixing html2pdf, and shipping an MVP to the Chrome Web Store in less of a day of work.
I wanted to save a specific Claude reply and couldn't. So I built a free Chrome extension to do it - star any AI reply, sync it to the cloud, and scroll back to it instantly. Here's exactly how it went.
Episode 6 of Coding Until I Make $100K. I reverse engineered Claude's website to find a hidden API endpoint, then built a free Chrome extension that shows your usage limit in real time.
How I built and shipped a save-to-Google-Drive Chrome extension in under 8 hours - OAuth setup, context menu bugs, MV3 limitations, and the full AI-assisted design workflow. Episode 5 of Coding Until I Make $100K.
I built a free Chrome extension that exports any Instagram DM conversation in one click - by reverse engineering Instagram's own network requests. Here's the full process, from idea to publish.
Claude's native search only finds conversation titles, not content. I built a free Chrome extension to fix that in 3 hours - full text search, word highlighting, and scrollbar markers. Here's how.
Episode 2 of Coding Until I Make $100k: how I built YouTube Filter Pro - a Chrome extension that filters videos by view count and duration - using 96 AI prompts, and the ytInitialData bug that cost me hours.
The honest start of my indie dev journey - no course funnels, no fake timelines. Just shipping Chrome extensions and documenting every step on YouTube.
Episode 1 of Coding Until I Make $100K. I built a free YouTube comments scraper Chrome extension from scratch — design, API, logo, review prompt, and publish. Here's the full process.
