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Honest question: Claude Code or Codex can already build Chrome extensions better than it , with unlimited revisions and customization. What's the real differentiator here — what's the magic that those general-purpose tools can't replicate? And are you ready to survive that race? I love innovation, but if the existing giants can do the same thing better and cheaper, it's hard to justify investing time in a niche tool. I think you understand where I'm coming from, but I'm genuinely curious to hear your answer. Thanks!

"Nowhere to go to build a simple extension for yourself" really nails it — I've got a handful of 15-minute browser itches I never build because the manifest/service-worker setup kills the momentum every time. Since the code is real MV3 that I own, does a build stay Chrome-only, or can the same prompt target Firefox/Edge too? Curious how far the "one thing we do" focus stretches across browsers.

Congrats on the launch! 🚀That "15-minute repetitive task" line got me. Mine is copy pasting snippets from a bunch of open tabs into one notes doc, one at a time. Something that just tossed every highlight into a single running note would genuinely save me.Nicely done!

Does the generated extension actually get reviewed and approved before hitting the store, or am I on the hook for submitting it myself?

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.

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.

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.

Chrome extensions are the one thing I keep wanting to build and keep bouncing off, because the manifest and permissions setup kills the momentum before I get anywhere. Does PlugThis handle the permissions prompts and store-review gotchas, or does it just get me to working code and I'm on my own for shipping? The last 10% is where my side-project extensions always die.

This hits different for anyone doing VC or market research day to day. Half of my job is skimming through founder profiles, pitch decks, and competitor sites, and there's always some tiny repetitive capture step (pull a founder's LinkedIn into a tracker, flag a company against a thesis, snapshot pricing pages) that's too small to justify a real dev cycle but too annoying to do by hand fifty times a week. Being able to just describe that in plain English and have it live as an actual extension I use daily is exactly the kind of 'nowhere to build this' gap you're describing.Curious whether you're seeing people build extensions for research/data-gathering workflows like that versus more consumer-facing use cases.

This looks cool! Does it support complex extensions with multiple pages?

This is a great idea. Does the app publish to chrome store directly post building ?

Congrats on the great launch! QQ - what about permissions requested at runtime through chrome.permissions.request or optional_permissions? Those probably almost never show up in a static call graph, so does the analyser read them as dead and nudge you to drop something you only ask for on demand?

@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! 👏

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! :)

Good idea. It would be even better if your service somehow helped with the promotion and marketing of extensions, because this is much more difficult than development, especially in our time

This is right up my alley. How good is the code it actually spits out — genuinely ship-ready, or more of a starting point? Keen to try it.

+1 to @thenameisarian on the browser-plumbing wall — that manifest/service-worker gap is exactly where the web-app builders stall. @nefer_ai your distribution answer already covers the Web Store side, so I'll ask the two things next to it:Extensions can't be previewed in an iframe the way a web app can — you load them unpacked and click through real pages. How does PlugThis close the build→see-it-actually-working loop while you're iterating?And on review: does the generator scope host/API permissions down to just what the feature needs, or is trimming an over-broad manifest still on the human before submitting? Least-privilege is usually what makes or breaks that first review 👌

How does the versioning work when you want to roll back, do you get a full diff or just snapshots you have to rebuild from?

Hey PH 👋 Udaya here, founder of PlugThis. We're a team of four in Bangalore.Till last year we were building AI products for large enterprises. Then the AI builder wave hit, and tools like Lovable, Bolt, and v0 genuinely inspired us. I built web apps, dashboards, and visualisations with them, and they performed incredibly well.But when I tried building Chrome extensions with them, it just didn't work. Extensions have a completely different architecture (manifests, content scripts, service workers) and these tools weren't designed for that.I've been building extensions since 2015 in my first startup, so I know this pain personally. Extensions are the most personal software there is 🧩We spend 7 hours a day in a browser, and everyone of us has some 15 minute repetitive task they wish would disappear. But there was nowhere to go to build a simple extension for ourself.We searched the market for something like this. Couldn't find it, so we built it.PlugThis builds Chrome extensions from a plain English prompt. Real Manifest V3 code that you own, and you can wire up a Supabase backend to make it full stack.One from my own browser: an extension that reads a Twitter profile as I scroll, researches the person, and scores how close they are to my ICP. Took a few prompts ⚡ For launch week, the Builder plan is at the Starter price, 3 days only 🎁We are here through the day. Try it out, and tell us what you liked and what you wish it did.And if you build an extension for yourself today, please share it in the comments. That's honestly the whole point of this product 🙌