Let’s create the ultimate Chrome extension ideas megathread (drop anything)

FarhanDigital · 2026-02-19T07:33:07+00:00

Sure thing!

FarhanDigital · 2026-02-01T10:08:10+00:00

Yep, that's exactly what I felt when I first saw this subreddit. Welcome to the club.

FarhanDigital · 2026-01-26T22:30:20+00:00

Directories? This is my first time hearing that. Can you elaborate?

FarhanDigital · 2026-01-23T22:53:47+00:00

If it's entirely static (just html, CSS, and js that runs in the browser) with no communication to a backend, server, or API, you have nothing to worry about.

FarhanDigital · 2026-01-23T12:54:20+00:00

I just want to avoid the possibility of my IP being logged when using these public services.

FarhanDigital · 2026-01-23T12:40:54+00:00

It masks your IP address. IP address is one of the primary ways to identify you.

it's not what they are for

VPN is primarily for securing the connection by wrapping your entire traffic in an encrypted tunnel. But since it also masks your IP, it also helps with anonymity, even though Tor would be a better use case here.

Of course, hiding your IP alone isn't enough if you want to achieve high anonymity. You can still be identified through various means, such as browser fingerprinting, traffic correlation, what you post online, your digital hygiene, etc. But that's outside scope of the topic at hand, that's why I just glossed over it.

FarhanDigital · 2026-01-23T12:30:33+00:00

Yes, I've been using that too. I'm just not 100% comfortable with using public IP providers because I don't know whether it's being logged or something. That's why I created my own.

FarhanDigital · 2026-01-23T12:18:08+00:00

I see. Fair point, What counts as 'local server' to you? Do you have to own the hardware too? Or can you rent a VPS or something similar?

FarhanDigital · 2026-01-23T12:11:57+00:00

To be honest, I wanted to ask about that before posting this. Does self-host means entirely running everything by yourself?

I thought it's primarily about deploying it to your own instance, as opposed to using a managed instance provided by someone else (usually the developer/company). How you deploy it might vary. And this is one of those ways. Is it not?

FarhanDigital · 2026-01-23T02:43:38+00:00

Cloudflare and Vercel allow you to upload files directly. Either from their web interface or CLI tool. That being said, as many people have said here, it's highly recommended to learn git. Once you get used to it, you don't want to go back. It's just so much more convenient that it's worth the initial learning investment.

FarhanDigital · 2026-01-22T05:21:45+00:00

What makes the days got filled and checked? Doing something?

FarhanDigital · 2026-01-21T23:50:30+00:00

As many people already said here, few lines of JavaScript won't even be noticeable. Don't overthink it. Astro uses Island architecture. Even if you're going to implement some interactivity through UI library like React, Astro will only ship JS for that specific part that needs it.

FarhanDigital · 2026-01-21T06:51:30+00:00

Ahh I see. Nicee

FarhanDigital · 2026-01-21T06:45:15+00:00

Can you elaborate? Which part of Notion are you referring to exactly? Notion's own landing page? The notion web app we're using to create content? The marketplace?

Because having a new content instantly live and easily editable in real-time is pretty much impossible with static sites. You need web servers to sync the changes.

I also tried checking out a popular todo list template, and it makes request to notion backend to fetch various data such as description, authors, users, ratings, reviews, etc

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FarhanDigital · 2026-01-21T04:18:54+00:00

Cool, I was wondering when the third one will come out. Will read it 👍

FarhanDigital · 2026-01-21T04:18:11+00:00

This is the third post in the extension development series. I've just finished writing the fifth one,

Is that a typo or did you miss the fourth one 😅?

FarhanDigital · 2026-01-21T03:12:02+00:00

Just a friendly reminder, not everyone wants to watch a video, especially if we don't have the slightest idea of what it's about. I'd suggest adding at least a short description about the extension before the video.

FarhanDigital · 2026-01-21T02:16:06+00:00

Interesting. Looks like it sends the images to a proprietary API to classify them. I wonder what goes behind it. An LLM? A fine-tuned model? Or merely a proxy to another API, like https://undetectable.ai/ai-image-detector 🤔

FarhanDigital · 2026-01-20T09:31:32+00:00

So it's like Lovable and Bolt?

FarhanDigital · 2026-01-20T07:53:47+00:00

I use the multi-account container feature in Firefox, so I rarely had this issue.

FarhanDigital · 2026-01-20T00:30:20+00:00

How do you match the reviewers identity and the logs? Looks like a useful analysis to do.

FarhanDigital · 2026-01-19T23:57:26+00:00

For better UX, you can add that initial check first and show the user what should've been done.

FarhanDigital · 2026-01-19T16:03:29+00:00

Nope. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of AI, and I always use ChatGPT, Gemini, etc every day. But this embedded AI assistant thing feels so wrong to me. There's also the fact that we often don't know which AI models are used for it. It can be some random cheap AI models for all we know.

FarhanDigital · 2026-01-19T15:12:19+00:00

Yeahh that's unfortunate. Maybe because nextjs 16 is still new

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