Bookmarks Star for Safari: The missing bookmark visual indicator for the Safari browser

Hello PH community! 👋 I hope you are all having a good week. Ozgur here, the developer of Bookmarks Star for Safari (a Safari Browser Extension for Mac OS). Excited for my first Product Hunt post! What is Bookmarks Star for Safari? Bookmarks Star for Safari will put a star icon into your Safari browser's toolbar. The icon will switch to a color of your choosing when you're visiting a page that is already in your Safari bookmarks (so no more creating accidental duplicate bookmarks). Also, you can see the exact folder(s) where that page is bookmarked when you click on the star icon (super handy if you have lots of folders). Additionally, I added a bookmark analysis feature, where you can create a report of all your duplicate bookmarks (so you can clean up duplicates). Background: I am kind of a semi-retired veteran (worked at Amazon and Google before) and I have been using Mac systems for more than 20 years, and used all kinds of internet browsers, but mostly Chrome until last year. Around 6 months ago I switched to Safari and the difference in terms of performance and resource management is very noticeable for my use case. Safari easily manages 50-100 tabs for me without any hiccups. I am a heavy bookmark user (~4000) and one thing I was missing from Chrome was the "star" icon you see in the address bar that instantly shows if the page you're visiting is in your bookmarks. Safari does not have that feature (until now!). I tried using third party bookmark managers but I thought they "added" to my workflow instead of making it easier (not extremely simple to use & creating separate databases for bookmarks etc.). I also wanted a privacy-oriented solution, where my bookmarks were not stored somewhere in a 3rd party cloud. The problem with Safari was, trying to find out if you have already bookmarked the page you're visiting is not "instant", and I wanted to have an instant visual feedback like I had in Chrome (can't remember how many duplicate bookmarks I've created in Safari due to being lazy). So, out of frustration, I developed this Safari extension :) and released it on the Mac App Store yesterday (this is also my first app ever). I probably spend too much time on this, thanks to Safari and its intricacies (e.g. Safari does does not support Bookmarks API that nearly all the other browsers support), and its "Container App approach" (you have to code a container app with Swift alongside the extension). But I must say that App Store reviewers were very helpful during the release process. The main challenge was to abstract/manage all the complex/different browser/webpage mechanisms from the user so the star icon switches colors reliably. The extension is pretty efficient and privacy-oriented. It only reads the URL of the active tab to check if it is bookmarked and does not read/track/store any website content. It also does not send/receive any data to/from any servers outside the computer. It does not use any trackers or analytics. The extension and its container app is self-contained within your Mac system. The app is live on the Mac OS App Store with a one-time fee of 3.99 USD (no subscriptions or in-app purchases. Buy once and use forever). I hope you'll like it! if you have questions about anything, I’m happy to answer. More about me: https://ozgurunlu.com Happy to connect! https://linkedin.com/in/thisisozgur