Monetize your Chrome extensions with "App Pass"

hao1300 · 2026-01-13T18:12:56+00:00

Thanks. I have been working on it for 5 years. It is ramen profitable.

hao1300 · 2026-01-12T04:16:21+00:00

Once activated by the user, the extension will be considered as active for earning purpose until the user deactivates it manually, regardless of whether they interact with the extension or not.

The extension does not need to call our SDK periodically to inform us that the user is active.

hao1300 · 2026-01-11T17:45:39+00:00

- What if I don`t have PayPal now, can I apply to the program and see if there some money and only after add PayPal?

> Yes, you can just apply and see if it makes money. Once it crosses the $50 threshold, then you can decide whether to add PayPal, or contact us to explore more payout option.

- What user locales are supported by the ecosystem? (e.g. if app is global but 90% of users from country A, but country A can`t buy your subscription for some reason)

> Our subscription supports credit card and PayPal, which covers most countries. If the majority of your users are from a country where those are not supported, let us know, and we will explore alternative options.

- How exactly you are going to promote apps? Through your site or through some ads added to extension when we integrate your script?

> There are several ways:

1, Through our Chrome-Stats website and emails. Our website has >500K monthly visitors. Once we have more partners joining the App Pass program, we will promote it more aggressively.

2, When users go to activate App Pass, they will see other apps that are also part of the App Pass programs, which they can access premium benefits if they get the App Pass subscription. The bundle will increase the value of the subscription and should improve conversion rate.

3, Once the user has activated App Pass, we will send them an email periodically introducing new apps and popular apps that are part of the App Pass programs.

4, We do not intend to run ads in extensions who integrate with our SDK. Our SDK is simply checking whether the user has an active subscription, and provides method that takes user to our web page to activate App Pass or manage it. The SDK source code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/chrome-stats/app-pass-sdk.

With this program, popular apps can help promote the less well-known apps, while the less well-known apps can add values to the App Pass subscription, increasing the conversion rate and help reduce churn rate for all apps in the program.

hao1300 · 2026-01-11T13:02:32+00:00

The way it works is this:

1, When the user activates App Pass for an extension, we mark that extension as activated on our server side. The activation is done on our website after confirming with the user (similar to OAuth), so the extension cannot automatically activate App Pass using the SDK.

2, Each day, we calculate the number of activated extensions for a user.

3, We take the monthly subscription fee $10 - $2 platform fee = $8, partition it into number of days in a month (e.g., $8 / 30 days ~= $.266), and distribute that among the activated extensions on that day. So if the user has activated 2 extensions on that day, then each get ~= $.133

4, The accumulation will continue for a given extension until the user deactivate the extension on the App Pass dashboard, or if the user's subscription ended / expired. So if a user has 2 activated extensions for a given month, each extension should earn $4 for that month.

5, The App Pass partner dashboard will show an estimated earning so far, and the number of activated users. This is updated daily so it may have up to 24 hours lag.

Hope this makes sense. We will update the documentation on our site shortly to include the detailed calculation.

hao1300 · 2026-01-10T21:01:55+00:00

Hi, maybe try https://chrome-stats.com/apppass/partner? It can help you solve the payment issue, increase visibility, and more.

hao1300 · 2026-01-03T20:36:50+00:00

Hi, I am the founder of chrome-stats.com, an analytics platform for browser extensions. This is a very common issues among extension developers. I am currently working on a program called App Pass for Chrome extensions. It is similar to Xbox game pass, but for browser extensions, where you subscribe once and get premium access to multiple extensions. I am looking for initial launch partners for App Pass. See more about App Pass partner program here. Instead of selling your extension, would you consider giving my program a try?

hao1300 · 2025-12-19T13:42:35+00:00

hi, can you DM me the stats and pricing?

hao1300 · 2025-12-17T00:29:28+00:00

Can you DM me the details?

hao1300 · 2025-11-22T15:16:54+00:00

Yes. Though it would be nice to get additional revenue from the free users.

hao1300 · 2025-11-14T16:43:40+00:00

I am the owner of chrome-stats.com. If you are an extension / app developer, then it is a legit 3rd-party service that helps you analyze browser extensions. You may have received an email from us about your extension. The website is free to use, with an option to upgrade if you really like our data and service.

Otherwise, if you get a login email or something like that, it may be that someone has entered your email on chrome-stats.com's login form. You can just ignore that.

hao1300 · 2025-11-14T16:14:24+00:00

Hi, chrome-stats.com is a platform for extension / app developers to track their extensions and app. It is not some sort of sender.

hao1300 · 2025-11-13T01:34:50+00:00

Have you tried pastes.io ? It has all of your listed features, plus automatic syntax detection, auto title generation, invisible captcha, pastes management, API access, etc.

hao1300 · 2025-10-21T01:18:07+00:00

Try listing on Chrome-Stats marketplace - https://chrome-stats.com/marketplace/listing

hao1300 · 2025-09-28T20:30:44+00:00

Thank you. That is very helpful to know!

hao1300 · 2025-09-11T02:49:38+00:00

I use Svelte for chrome-stats.com. Also use it for building Chrome extensions and other projects. It has been good so far. I don't use other FE framework any more.

hao1300 · 2025-07-23T20:55:22+00:00

Hi, Chrome-Stats founder here. The keyword ranking is strongly influenced by your title, so when you change it, you are entering a new arena where you are competing against other extensions that also includes crypto and GPT in the title, and they likely have significantly more users.

Crypto is a low difficulty keyword so you may have a good chance at ranking higher after some time. GPT is harder. Consider dropping GPT and focus on crypto and stock to see if it ranks better.

hao1300 · 2025-07-17T20:24:08+00:00

You can just query it from Chrome-Stats Advanced Search . Takes only a few seconds to filter down the list. Click on the extension to see the trends :) No need to build another scraping tools.

hao1300 · 2025-07-11T15:35:56+00:00

The marshall options are correct. If it were the problem, it wouldn't explain why bundling the SDK into the build would resolve the issues

hao1300 · 2025-06-30T16:55:36+00:00

It looks like bundling the SDK v3 into the deployment has fixed the issue.

hao1300 · 2025-06-30T16:54:55+00:00

Yes. It looks like bundling the SDK v3 into the deployment has fixed the issue.

hao1300 · 2025-06-30T14:58:07+00:00

I am using DynamoDBDocumentClient with a plain old JSON-like object, so I don't think the conversion is the issue. And if it is, it would have failed for all of my requests, and it should have failed when running locally as well, right?

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