Chrome extensions are the fastest way to bend the web to your will but building one means wrestling with manifest.json, service workers, content scripts, and a build pipeline. Most people with a great idea never get past "I wish my browser could just "

Plugthis fixes that. Describe the extension you want in plain English, and Plugthis generates a real, working, installable Chrome extension: code, manifest, assets, and all. No command line. No boilerplate. No dev setup.

How it works:

1. Describe your extension ("Summarize the article I'm reading and let me ask questions about it")

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Most people don't realize this: you no longer need to know JavaScript to build a Chrome extension.

With PlugThis, you describe what you want your browser to do and it builds a real, installable extension for you.

Here's what that actually unlocks

 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

 - One-click clean up and export the current page

Udaya here, founder of PlugThis. We're #1 right now and honestly still processing that.

But upvotes aren't the point of this product. Extensions are.

So here's the thread: if you used your free builds today, post what you made. One line on what it does. Screenshot if you have one.

Weird ideas especially welcome. The stranger the prompt, the more I want to see it.

Spent the last few months talking to founders and indie hackers who are quietly frustrated with subscription Chrome extensions.

The pattern I keep hearing: someone pays $20 to $50 a month for an extension that does one specific thing (usually an SEO checker, a research tool, a screenshot annotator, or an LinkedIn scraper). The extension itself is a few hundred lines of code, the underlying task is mechanical, and the monthly charge feels like rent on something that should be a one-time purchase.

I'm running growth for PlugThis (launching here on Product Hunt soon) and part of the pitch is that you can build or clone those tools yourself instead of renting them. But I want to stress-test the premise.

Two questions for this forum: