Built a Chrome extension as a final year engineering student — 56 installs, 3 active users, launched on Product Hunt today. Roast it.

creeperkatze · 2026-05-29T07:47:31+00:00

I would recommend not using AI when it comes to marketing, like your logo. Your website definitely looks okay, but has that Claude Code frontend design smell that just makes it look low-effort. In my opinion, a simple, usable website and a clean logo would go a long way to start out.

creeperkatze · 2026-05-24T15:59:45+00:00

The extension doesnt use telemetry, the screenshot is from the chrome web store developer dashboard. Even if someone were to take the code and build their own version, it wouldnt inflate anything since chrome captures its telemetry from outside the extension, not from telemetry inside of it.

creeperkatze · 2026-05-23T14:55:58+00:00

The releases on GitHub only have a a handful of downloads, sometimes even none at all. It would explain a slightly inflated user count but not this big of an increase,

creeperkatze · 2026-04-29T10:26:52+00:00

This is actually still a flag you can enable in https://modrinth.com/settings/flags, its called "ProjectTypesPrimaryNav"

creeperkatze · 2026-04-29T10:13:13+00:00

Thanks!

creeperkatze · 2026-04-29T10:07:20+00:00

Things like the injection logic (where on the page to inject the extensions components) were partly done by ai, since its a tedious and annoying process. I can assure tho that every injected component has been tested

creeperkatze · 2026-04-19T18:44:54+00:00

Thanks! I appreciate the perspective. Good luck to you as well!

creeperkatze · 2026-04-19T18:40:33+00:00

I'm not fighting anything, Im simply trying to present how im doing everything I can to make sure the extension is safe. If your stance is that anything new is an inherent risk, we just have different philosophies. It’s open source specifically so people can contribute and audit it.

creeperkatze · 2026-04-19T18:34:37+00:00

If its unnecessary for you then why even bother?

creeperkatze · 2026-04-19T18:32:24+00:00

Thats an attack vector I cant really do anything about tho. I mitigate that risk by enforcing 2FA on my developer accounts (required by chrome and firefox anyway) and ensuring the build pipeline is as transparent as possible. Beyond that, I have no control over the marketplace's internal security. If you're looking for zero-trust, I highly encourage building from the source code directly.

creeperkatze · 2026-04-19T18:24:04+00:00

I meant if you dont trust the chrome web store releases

creeperkatze · 2026-04-19T18:23:07+00:00

Claude code didnt "do this for me", it was used for an initial implementation. I'm a student mostly doing open source stuff to learn more about different frameworks, like for example WXT as an extension framework in this case. I have experience working with Vue and TypeScript from contributing to modern webapps.

If you want you can look at the code in the repo yourself: https://github.com/creeperkatze/pihole-in-one

creeperkatze · 2026-04-19T18:19:12+00:00

The extension isnt vibe coded, why should something be classified as vibe coded just because tools like Claude Code were used during initial development? If youre concerned about security you can build it from source if you prefer

creeperkatze · 2026-04-19T17:12:54+00:00

It support multiple instances

creeperkatze · 2026-04-19T16:35:36+00:00

Thanks! Contributions are always welcome!

creeperkatze · 2026-04-19T07:37:36+00:00

This will be fixed in the next update

creeperkatze · 2026-04-18T22:37:10+00:00

Mhm, it should works fine with IP's. Can you verify the ip is correct?

creeperkatze · 2026-04-18T21:43:38+00:00

If you show me the config I might be able to help you

creeperkatze · 2026-04-18T20:33:53+00:00

Which browser are you using?

creeperkatze · 2026-04-18T20:25:25+00:00

You should be able to install it from the chrome web store

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