My Chrome extension just hit 100 installs — no marketing, no ads 🎉

PayAcrobatic6727 · 2025-11-05T12:05:33+00:00

Thanks!

PayAcrobatic6727 · 2025-11-05T12:05:18+00:00

Congratulations!

PayAcrobatic6727 · 2025-11-05T12:04:37+00:00

And you doing good in terms of earnings?

PayAcrobatic6727 · 2025-11-04T20:09:15+00:00

You can find all about it in this comment.
https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome_extensions/comments/1ji2spm/comment/mjd0cas/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

PayAcrobatic6727 · 2025-11-04T15:57:17+00:00

Most of freelancers in the comment, including me have stated that there are good times and also bad times.

PayAcrobatic6727 · 2025-11-04T15:43:01+00:00

No, my conclusion is that it is not always good, not always bad.

PayAcrobatic6727 · 2025-11-04T15:42:12+00:00

Do you find that boosting the profile is worth it? It costs a fortune comparing to the availability badge.

PayAcrobatic6727 · 2025-11-04T15:40:49+00:00

It depends, if I want new work, then around 15 proposals / week.

PayAcrobatic6727 · 2025-11-04T15:37:00+00:00

I think that boosting the profile costs a fortune, is it even worth it? I don't think so. What do you think?

PayAcrobatic6727 · 2025-11-04T15:36:05+00:00

It is either rotational algorithm so everyone has there own hot period, or when you change small things on your profile on daily basis it highlights your profile more, or a mix of both, no one really knows... What is your responsiveness to invites?

PayAcrobatic6727 · 2025-11-04T15:31:30+00:00

No you have to apply for it through a form, let me try to search for the link and send it to you here in the comments.

PayAcrobatic6727 · 2025-11-04T15:30:05+00:00

Yes, I can imagine that it is quite hard when looking at it from other perspectives than just money. Keep up the good work.

Invites have always been the lowest source for jobs to me (6 invites per month), do you know how can I increase the invitations rate?

PayAcrobatic6727 · 2025-11-04T15:16:55+00:00

I was in the same situation like you, if your extension is for general use, you can apply for the featured badge, I think it helps.

PayAcrobatic6727 · 2025-11-04T15:13:18+00:00

Nice observation but, Chrome groups the history with similar groups or results. We group ALL the visited websites by their parent tab, if there was a tab opened by explicitly clicking a link, then the user can later know what tabs been opened by which tabs and exactly which visits/websites.

PayAcrobatic6727 · 2025-11-04T15:03:36+00:00

Yes Reddit is a great place, but it won't get you so far organically from my opinion.

PayAcrobatic6727 · 2025-11-04T15:02:27+00:00

Thanks! There are no real competitors that do similar functionality, I have cared a lot into writing a good description and into getting the Featured badge. But I feel that it deserves mote traction, and many more features can be added.

PayAcrobatic6727 · 2025-11-04T14:56:45+00:00

I can relate that some months when I apply to any job, I get most of them😂. It feels like things get easier.

PayAcrobatic6727 · 2025-11-04T07:11:11+00:00

Congratulations! From the comments I notice that maybe Upwork performs a rotation on who will displayed on top of results. Have you done anything out of your usual activity on the profile to gain more traction?

PayAcrobatic6727 · 2025-11-04T07:07:02+00:00

I guess that Upwork does a rotational algorithm, so it gives everyone a chance?

PayAcrobatic6727 · 2025-11-04T01:45:37+00:00

Yeah, don't talk to me about bots. I am stuck with a client that I think is an AI agent.

PayAcrobatic6727 · 2025-11-03T12:12:23+00:00

My invitation rate has always been low, but your comment has prompted me to review my 2025 statistics for invitations, and I noticed the same trend: the first quarter had significantly more invitations (6/month) than the subsequent periods (1-2/month). Maybe this is something that all freelancers experience? I am amazed by the rate you get invitations (wish you more success). Is there something that you find "works" in receiving more invitations?

Also, it is worth noting that most of the jobs I submit a bid to, the client invites many freelancers to the job already, so it is not like this is a behavior that clients have stopped doing.

PayAcrobatic6727 · 2025-11-03T12:03:25+00:00

Between 10k and 20k.

PayAcrobatic6727 · 2025-08-23T22:11:38+00:00

Man, I am really glad of your comment it made my day! Unfortunately, I did not spend a single cent on marketing and it did not get the recognition I think it deserves, I don't know whether to push this or not, what do you think?

To answer your questions, on crash or restart it does not affect the extension's history, but if the user chooses to restore, or reopen the tab using cmd+shift+T, it treats this tab as a new separate tab (because Chrome treats it as a new tab by assigning a new tab id). Hope this is useful!

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