A developer built CourseSpeed, a Chrome extension that provides granular video speed control across multiple online learning platforms including Udemy, Coursera, LinkedIn Learning, and Skillshare. The…
A developer spent 90 days commenting on AI side panel threads on Hacker News, Reddit, and Dev.to as research. They found that posts leading with personal friction and trade-offs outperformed product-f…
FanoutFox, a free Chrome extension that reads ChatGPT sessions to reveal the sources and queries behind answers, is now live on the Chrome Web Store. The tool, built by the blog's author, shows which …
Phia, the AI-powered shopping browser extension co-founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, faced two major controversies: in November 2025, security researchers revealed it was capturing full HTML …
A developer built ToS Radar PRO, a Chrome extension that uses local AI inference to scan Terms of Service and Privacy Policy pages for dangerous clauses like AI data scraping, forced arbitration, and …
Verity, a new AI plugin for Chrome, claims to detect truth in online content but faces skepticism over its efficacy and high inference costs. The plugin aims to combat misinformation, but questions re…
Gemtype, an open-source Chrome extension, offers live grammar and spelling checking, sentence verification, and rewrite features using Google's Gemini API with a bring-your-own-key model, providing a …
A developer rebuilt the Chrome extension WordSense into WordSense AI, a zero-latency, context-aware AI reading assistant powered by Meta Llama-3.1-8B-Instant via Groq. The extension uses Manifest V3, …
A developer built Argus, an AI transaction firewall as a Chrome extension, and documented the challenges of submitting it to the Chrome Web Store. Key lessons include adapting to Manifest V3's statele…
Google's Gemini AI can help users create custom browser extensions in minutes, enabling them to modify web interfaces and improve productivity without coding expertise. The process involves describing…
A developer built three AI-powered Chrome extensions—PR summarization, risk scoring, and draft review generation—with zero backend cost by using a Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) architecture. The extension…
A developer built a Chrome extension that lets users highlight text and send it to multiple AI models via a side panel in two weekends. The extension supports OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, but…
A solo developer shipped four products in one year: spectr-ai (AI smart-contract auditor), Scry (chat with EVM contracts), Argus (transaction-firewall extension), and Lomi (multi-tenant SaaS). The dev…
A solo developer in Sweden built NoiseFilter, a Chrome extension that analyzes news articles, research papers, and blog posts for bias and agenda. The tool uses AI to provide a breakdown of content, s…
A developer shared two methods for copying math equations from Claude into Microsoft Word without breaking formatting. The fastest solution is a Chrome extension called Claude Exporter, which converts…
Memoriq, an open-source encrypted vault for saving and searching AI chats from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok, launched on Hacker News. The tool encrypts chat content in the browser before upload, …
A developer built a Claude Code plugin called Chrome Extension Builder for MV3 Chrome extensions, learning that validators and hooks are more effective than clever prompts for catching MV3-specific mi…
A developer built a local-first Chrome extension called ContextOS using the Plasmo framework to chain ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude. The extension runs entirely serverless with chrome.storage.local for da…
At Google I/O 2026, Chrome announced that monthly developer registrations for extensions have more than doubled, with 17% of new extensions now using AI. Key updates include a new Modern Web Guidance …
Technical guide for developers on integrating Transformers.js into a Chrome extension under Manifest V3 constraints. It details a three-part architecture using a background service worker to host AI m…