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")
Been sitting on a Chrome extension idea for probably a year now and never touched it because I don't really code. The Twitter ICP scoring one you mentioned is basically the exact vibe of the thing I've wanted to build. Gonna actually try this today instead of letting it rot in my notes app lol.
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@mshen316 This is the exact person we built it for, Michael 😄 A year in the notes app is long enough, today's the day.
And good news, the Twitter ICP scoring idea is right in the sweet spot: read the profile or timeline, score it against your criteria, show the result inline. You describe it in plain English and it figures out the structure, the permissions, and the scaffolding for you, so not really coding is not the blocker it used to be. You can refine it just by telling it what you want changed.
One tip: start with the simplest version of the idea, get that working and seeing it live, then add the fancy scoring logic. Momentum is everything, and this time you won't lose it to setup.
Go build it, and please come back and tell me how it went. Genuinely rooting for you on this one.
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@jill_camhi_osinoff First, thank you for trying out Plugthis.
Let me assist you with your question.
Please input the idea you have for the extension and click on the black arrow button.
I have pasted a screenshot below for your reference, if you still have questions please reply I ll assist.
@nefer_ai I entered in the prompt but there is no black arrow visible. I’m on mobile.
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@jill_camhi_osinoff Hi apologies, currently plugthis.ai works best on desktop. Can you please try creating the extension from a desktop device.
Do the plugins stop working if you stop paying for the subscription? Or you just can’t modify them further?
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@jasonrdunn Great question, and the answer is the good kind: your extensions keep working.
What you build is a real, standalone Chrome extension. The code is yours to download, and once it's installed or published to the store it runs on its own with no dependency on PlugThis servers. So if you stop paying, nothing you already shipped breaks.
The subscription is about building and modifying, generating new extensions and iterating on existing ones inside the tool. Pause it and your live extensions keep running exactly as they are, you just wouldn't be creating or changing more until you're back.
So it's full ownership, no kill switch. Your extension, your code, yours to keep.
@saurabh_dey1 great, thanks, that is great to hear!
The permission-scoping and service-worker answers here are more honest than I expected. One thing I didn't see asked: what happens when the extension someone describes needs a third-party API key. We shipped an internal extension that called an LLM endpoint and I pulled the key back out of the packed CRX in about a minute, because encrypting it at rest doesn't help when the decryption key ships in the same bundle. We ended up proxying every call through our own backend. Does PlugThis push people toward a proxy when the prompt implies a keyed API, or does it inline the key and leave that to the user?
I've had a few Chorme extension ideas setting in my notes because getting from an idea to working extensions always felt like too much work. i really like that you're focused on one problem instead of trying to build everything for everyone.
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@tessa_lynch Thank you for appreciating exactly what we are doing. We just want to be the simplest way to build chrome extensions.
Please try out your ideas on Plugthis.ai Super excited to see your ideas to comes to life.
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@nefer_ai Tested it today and it's genuinely fun to use. I expected to spend time fixing boilerplate, but it got me to a usable extension much faster than I thought. If you keep improving the generation quality, this could become a go-to tool for anyone building Chrome extensions. Congrats! 👏
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@neerajkanoi Thank you, glad you found it to be useful. If there is any feature you wan to see in the app, please let us know.
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@hamza_afzal_butt Thank you, the types of extension being created are wide spread from scrapers to AI powered extensions that do customer research.
But my favourite so far was an interactive digital wellness BFF someone had created that acts as your buddy reminding you to do exercise, drink water every 20 minutes.
One other thing I have observed is people re-creating extensions that already exist and adding features they want on top of them.