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:
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.
PlugThis
@adhar_masand Thank you Adhar :) Browser if rightly automated, can save upto one full working day every single month! :)
minimalist phone: reduce your screentime
Guys, you are amazing. I will try this later because I am building my own (tho manually because I set the goal for myself to learn coding and programming). But this one tool is brilliant! :)
minimalist phone: reduce your screentime
By the way, how comprehensive is this solution?
Because let's say that I am a total beginner and my prompt would be: "Create a plugin that alerts you that you spent too much time on a certain website." – does it know how to create a sufficient structure?
Because real devs are more descriptive and probably would be able to create well-described and specific tasks, like create padding 3px 12 px...
PlugThis
@busmark_w_nika You are our dream user. The prompt "Create a plugin that alerts you that you spent too much time on a certain website." would exactly build you the extension.
Please try out plugthis.ai you provide simple instruction and the AI will build it.
No need provide padding and other details.
We cant wait to see what you are going to build :D
Please see the video below. I have shown how to build the time gaurd extension, will take 2 minutes.
https://share.descript.com/view/PZOMB6eTvMU
minimalist phone: reduce your screentime
@nefer_ai I tried to develop it, but somehow it doesn't load after uploading it :D
PlugThis
@busmark_w_nika Sorry about that, Whenever you find a bug please take a screenshot and paste back into the editor and tell it what you saw and ask it to fix. It will get it sorted.