Quietly Launched Extension Hits 47 Installs
tibo_maker · x · 2026-07-14
The author mentions having their agent casually build a few free tools a few weeks ago, which they then left alone.
Last week, they discovered that one of the Chrome extensions had received 47 installs and 1 review. They hadn't officially launched it or sent out an email blast; people just started using it naturally after a "quiet launch."
Their conclusion: 47 installs might not be a business yet, but it proves that a small group of people genuinely encountered the same problem—it wasn't a made-up need. If the tool had just sat in a folder waiting for the "perfect time," they would have never learned this.
They named the tool SnapCode, which turns any webpage into a pixel-perfect replication prompt for Claude, Codex, or Cursor.
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