I tried to pick a few that help me with work (e.g. summarising something, fixing or improving the process).
Here are my must-haves:

• Buyerstage  bookmarking LinkedIn posts

• ColorZilla to pick colours from websites (a must for graphics work)

• Grammarly  grammar checking and grammar correction

• Save Tweets Forever  bookmarking Twitter posts

• SimilarWeb for a quick overview of website stats

• SurfPal a time tracker to keep screen time in check

• TidyRead  AI summarising texts from websites

• Tweet Hunter analysing Twitter posts and profiles

Of course, I have more, but these are essential to me.

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")

 Hey folks
 Instead of another feature list, let's make this useful. If you have a Chrome extension idea sitting in your notes app, one you keep meaning to build but the setup always kills the momentum, drop it in the comments. I'll reply with how PlugThis would actually approach it: the structure it would generate, the permissions it would need, and where the tricky parts are.
No idea is too small or too weird. Some things people have already been describing:

 - Alert me when I've spent too much time on a certain website

 - Score a Twitter or LinkedIn profile against my own criteria, inline

 - One-click clean up and export the current page

I am possibly preparing for marketing my own tool (a Chrome extension) and collect the activities I can use for future visibility and possible purchases.
Right now, I am thinking about basics:

• SEO within the plugin (name, description, description in the Chrome Store + visuals)

• Listings in directories

• Reddit mentions

• Building in public

I am aware that it is not sufficient, and there will be much more work.

Everyone told us the AI browser extension space was crowded.

They were right. It's crowded with half-products.

Most do one trick, summarize a page, manage your tabs, maybe fill a form. That's it. You still need 5 other tools to actually get work done.

I m planning to create a website for my extension, and I want to make it as visually engaging as possible while keeping it minimalist, so the main idea is immediately clear.

That means I need to learn from the best.

I ve been on this platform for almost three years without interruption, reviewing dozens of products every day. I try many of them, but only a few have become part of my daily routine, ones I can t imagine living without.

I will pin, for example, 3 of them:

@TabMagic - Bookmark & Tab Manager I no longer need 500 tabs open; I can save them to my dashboard and close my entire browser.

There's almost no public content on how to monetize a Chrome Extension.

Google invited us to do a podcast about it, sharing our learnings on how two bootstrapped guys grew Pretty Prompt to 40,000 users, 25% on annual plans, with ~7% weekly growth, with no VC money.

I've been on this platform for over 2 years, and we have to admit that the number of tools that appear here every day is truly unimaginable.

Sometimes it's hard to select the best ones, but I have to say that some that I found a few months or years ago, I still use every day because they are useful to me in some way.

Yesterday @fmerian recommended Googly Eyes from @Sindre Sorhus, which I immediately downloaded! After enjoying the eyes following my cursor around for the day, that got me thinking - what other fun, goofy apps do you all have for your Mac, Chrome, or other devices that don't necessarily serve a purpose other than to bring joy and break the monotony? @Scroll Buddy is another one that comes to mind that I have saved in a collection.

We see productivity apps, AI-based software, open-source products, etc. all the time, but what about your saved products someone made after their 9-5 or on a weekend just to have fun and test their skills?