I made Claude Code the CEO of my Chrome extension for a week — here's what happened
intensityflow · reddit · 2026-10-02
The author handed his free Chrome extension Stackboard to Claude Code as its "CEO" for a week. Setup: a scheduled task in the Claude desktop app fires nightly at 9pm, loading a markdown playbook the agent wrote and keeps editing. Playwright drives a Chrome profile signed into Reddit, X and the Chrome Web Store dashboard; each night it files a pinned Notion log. Nothing goes public until the author replies "go".
Week 1 results:
- Spotted a near-identical competitor with a Featured badge and pushed a rename before launch (Stackable → Stackboard)
- Caught the store listing claiming behavior the code no longer had and rewrote the privacy text
- Built the next version (bookmarks-bar onboarding + OneTab-style window stash), passing 67 unit and 55 end-to-end tests, now in store review
- Recorded demo videos from the real extension; a second Claude session cut a promo montage in Remotion
- When the Notion connector broke, it wrote a fallback driving Notion's web API from the signed-in browser
What didn't work: Google forces password re-entry every few days (the agent can't type passwords — a good thing), stalling a release for five days; its first Reddit post got one upvote; it suggested texting friends for first users and was refused.
Numbers: 4 weekly users, 14 installs in 30 days, 0 reviews, $0 spent.
Related event: Developer Lets Claude Code Autonomously Run Plugin for a Week(2 posts)→
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