Hey folks Instead of another feature list, let's make this useful. If you have a Chrome extension idea sitting in your notes app, one you keep meaning to build but the setup always kills the momentum, drop it in the comments. I'll reply with how PlugThis would actually approach it: the structure it would generate, the permissions it would need, and where the tricky parts are. No idea is too small or too weird. Some things people have already been describing:
- Alert me when I've spent too much time on a certain website
- Score a Twitter or LinkedIn profile against my own criteria, inline
A few years ago, I was building a consumer transportation startup in Asia, and ended up raising $12m in a Series A financing from First Round Capital. For context, we were looking at investors that had done well in our sector (consumer transportation), and First Round had invested in Uber at Seed.
With my second startup (Metal), we have built the AI-native operating system for founders raising VC that we wish had existed when we were raising for our first startup. The below write-up provides a playbook for founders raising Series A/B/C rounds (based on lessons learned from raising nine venture rounds over the past seven years).
Building an API that pulls data across 13 social platforms, and the thing that's eaten the most engineering time isn't the scraping itself, it's how differently every platform breaks. Rate limits that change without notice, auth flows that expire silently, structured data one week and a wall of JS the next.
Curious what's bitten other builders here. Which platform has been the worst to depend on, and what did you end up doing about it?
