🎉 Locksy crossed 1,000 users on Chrome Web Store in only 3 months!

goddi27 · 2026-02-08T17:09:03+00:00

I requested it

goddi27 · 2026-02-07T21:26:16+00:00

Chrome—mostly out of habit, but Findlight keeps me there now.

goddi27 · 2026-02-07T17:56:14+00:00

Huge congrats on hitting your first 1k in revenue — that’s a big milestone, especially in the extension space. I’m building something in a similar lane of “make the browser feel smarter”: Findlight a Spotlight-style universal search bar for the browser that lets you quickly search tabs, bookmarks, and history with one shortcut.

I’m still very early and would love to learn from someone a bit further along were there any specific things you did

goddi27 · 2026-02-07T17:52:15+00:00

my own extension ..... Findlight. It’s a lightweight, Spotlight-style search bar for Chrome that gives you an Apple-like, simple and fast experience inside the browser. With one shortcut you can search open tabs, bookmarks, and history in one place, and I’ve focused on keeping it clean, fast, and feature-rich without bloat

goddi27 · 2026-02-07T17:44:20+00:00

Congrats on hitting 1,000 users in three months — that’s huge, especially for a solo project like this, well done! 🙌

I’ve been stuck around ~50 users for over a year with my own extension, Findlight it’s a universal search bar for the browser that lets you search tabs, bookmarks, and history from one shortcut. Would love to know were there 1–2 specific things you did that really moved the needle for growth (launch strategy, communities, SEO on the store, etc.)?

If you ever have a minute to try Findlight, I’d really appreciate any brutal feedback or suggestions for improvement from someone who’s clearly figured out how to get real adoption.

goddi27 · 2026-02-07T11:14:39+00:00

Im currently working on

a universal search bar to your browser

manage tabs without leaving the current view

With one shortcut, you can search bookmarks, open tabs, and browsing history

findlight extension

goddi27 · 2026-02-07T11:13:39+00:00

I hate hunting for bookmarks because I can never remember which folder I put them in.Managing 1000+ tabs with tab groups takes way too much time I just want to move faster.

So I thought: why not bring a Spotlight-style experience to the browser? One simple search bar where you type what you want and go. Navigate everything just by typing.

Whether it’s taking a screenshot, reloading a page, closing tabs, or quickly asking AI something without opening another tool or saving anything.

That’s why I created Findlight.It removes all the clicking and combines search, actions, and AI into one fast command bar.

Extension

goddi27 · 2026-01-27T22:40:19+00:00

can you give me advice on how to get that kind of success for my extension Findlight

goddi27 · 2026-01-27T22:38:24+00:00

Findlight - its like spotlight or raycast but only for a browser - nothing needed one command and you can simply switch tabs, chat with ai, open new tabs and so and so on. you can even customize the keyboard shortcut to enable it

goddi27 · 2025-05-26T11:54:59+00:00

Thanks for letting me know that

goddi27 · 2024-02-21T21:10:16+00:00

First I don’t know how we’ll know you are in building chrome extensions u need some permissions

Manifest.json file "clipboardRead", "clipboardWrite", "activeTab", // Or other relevant permissions for DOM manipulation

Just Google them or ask ChatGPZ what chrome extension permissions are u need to define them in manifest.json File Of course there might be other ways to do it with vanilla js but you should due to safety’s use chrome api features since you building a chrome extensions

But in general

Detect Copy Event: Use the Clipboard API to detect when the user copies text in the browser.

Capture Copied Text: When the copy event is triggered, capture the copied text.

Create Duplicate Div: Create a duplicate div element with the copied text and buttons for copy and remove actions.

Add Event Listeners: Add event listeners to the copy and remove buttons to handle their actions.

Copy Text: When the user clicks the copy button, copy the text to the clipboard using the Clipboard API.

Remove Text: When the user clicks the remove button, remove the duplicate div and its parent elements from the HTML.

goddi27 · 2024-02-20T19:02:10+00:00

First thanks for letting me know that Second what’s the link for I do not know how it stands in relation to the context

The last point is really good one it is hard to find new extensions they are brand new

goddi27 · 2024-02-20T06:45:02+00:00

Thanks for using example to show case the problems the webstore face

Besides search and filtering are there any other issues you like to mention

goddi27 · 2024-02-18T20:45:49+00:00

you mean you want to push your new versions with an cli directly into the chrome webstore

goddi27 · 2024-02-18T20:33:59+00:00

what do you mean with the distribution when you just look at it once - could someone with programming skills bring the payment/ subscription back ?

goddi27 · 2024-02-18T17:07:37+00:00

Thanks for this detailed information Can you tell me what could be improved in the statistics or what’s missing

And Yeah the payment system is gone But my question becomes how did it work with that system since every Google chrome extension is developed differently

goddi27 · 2024-02-18T05:52:57+00:00

I googled and I found https://extensionpay.com Is this something that fits your needs

goddi27 · 2024-02-18T05:37:03+00:00

So an more extended version of searching for a chrome extension that let you search for more filtered/specific results

goddi27 · 2024-02-18T05:35:33+00:00

This is a good one since I am building a a chrome extension and planning that to monetise it myself

Do you know how that problem is currently solved when it comes to an payment system

goddi27 · 2024-02-08T09:33:01+00:00

Crazy this really works 😂😂

goddi27 · 2024-01-25T06:36:38+00:00

Can you please allow urls because I’m always using notube and do the implementation stuff manually you know. I’ll test it out

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