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:
The version history baked in is such a thoughtful touch, makes iterating with the chat feel safe instead of nerve-wracking. Glad someone finally focused on Chrome extensions instead of yet another web app builder.
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@hamidesevg79879 Thank you version history was born out of pain we faced not having it :) And we wanted to be super focussed from day 1 and be the best platform to build chrome extensions.
Tried describing a simple tab grouper and was surprised the generated extension actually loaded without errors. The version history saved me when I tweaked the prompt too aggressively and wanted to roll back.
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@mirabahieq3q Super happy that you were able to make the extension, if you are ok with it please share it here with us. Use the share button the preview pane.
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Solid product. I've used this to create a few of my Chrome extensions to make my day to day work easier.
Although people with AI dev tools can create their own, I think everyone (even non-devs) needs to make their own chrome extensions to make their workflows easier, that's where this just works.
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@soumitrasen Thank you for your kind words! Very happy to have you as a user from the earliest days of plugthis.
I appreciate that every change is versioned. It makes experimenting feel much less risky. Knowing I can always go back encourages me to try more ideas.
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@thomas__bond Thanks for noticing, This feature was not there in our original roadmap and only when we started to build real world extensions, we realised and necessity of having it and had it built.
Please do setup your account and try building your ideas.
Super excited to check this out and will be trying it for our current web app 'dot.' as we could definitely expand our offerings with a chrome extension!
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@munimur_ashrafy Thank you, great idea. A lot of our early customers create extensions to offer along side their main product. Please reach out to me if you have any challenges.
This is great Udaya! been trial and error build a chrome extension and keep getting bottleneck. I found something from your product. Big applause!
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Hi @reza_here Thank you thank you :) Please take PlugThis for a spin. I am super curious to see what you are going to build.
Browser is where all my work happens and it makes a lot of sense to extract all the juice extensions have to offer. Love what PlugThis does. I've known Udaya for a while and can vouch for the founder and his superb team.
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@adhar_masand Thank you Adhar :) Browser if rightly automated, can save upto one full working day every single month! :)