Roman Builder

The 80/20 ratio really clicks. I'm running a 30-day challenge right now — trying to get 1,000 users for a Chrome extension with zero budget. And the tweets where I just share the honest struggle ("day 9, still grinding, here's what flopped") consistently outperform the ones that explain the product. It makes sense when you think about it — people follow people, not products. Nobody wants to...

Building Copy URL — a Chrome extension that copies the current page URL with one keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+C). No popup, no UI, just a badge flash to confirm it worked. Stack is intentionally minimal: Manifest V3, Clipboard API with execCommand fallback for older browsers, pure vanilla JS. The whole thing is 48KB. No frameworks, no bundlers, no backend. Two permissions total —...

This really resonates. I'm launching my first product on PH on March 17 (a simple Chrome extension — Copy URL) and I keep going back and forth between "this is going to be great" and "nobody is going to care." The point about the community showing up mainly for their own launch hits hard. I've been trying to engage genuinely here — upvoting and commenting on products I actually find interesting...

The per-tenant ML model approach is really interesting, Ilyas. Most security tools apply the same generic rules to everyone, which is exactly why alert fatigue is such a problem — everything looks like a threat when you don't know what's normal for a specific environment. The fact that each customer gets their own baseline model that evolves over time is a strong technical moat. Starting with...

The mental models angle is a really clever differentiator, Marshall. Most AI reading tools just summarize — this actually gives you frameworks to think about what you're reading, which is way more useful for decision-making. As someone who builds browser extensions too, I'm curious how you handle the context window when analyzing longer articles. Do you chunk the content or send the full page...

Love that you open-sourced this, Dylan. The visual grid with Open Graph thumbnails is such an obvious improvement over the default HN wall of text — surprised nobody built this sooner. The side-by-side article + comments view is the feature I'd use most. Half the value of HN is the discussion, but switching between the article and the comment thread in a browser is clunky. Having them next to...

Congrats on the launch, Victor! As a fellow Chrome extension builder, I really appreciate how you've identified such a specific pain point. The "it's not working" bug report with zero context is something every dev has dealt with, and the idea of bridging that gap for non-technical team members is smart positioning. Making network request capture accessible without DevTools is a great angle —...