Ask HN: What are some successful startups/businesses that are Chrome extensions?

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Post by Nemant » Sun, Aug 25, 2019, 9:11 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What are some successful startups/businesses that are Chrome extensions?

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Post by tyleo » Sun, Aug 25, 2019, 9:31 PM UTC

I think that Rapportive started as a Chrome extension. I don't know much about the business but I believe the founder went on to start Superhuman.

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Post by rolstenhouse » Sun, Aug 25, 2019, 9:42 PM UTC

Loom https://www.loom.com/ started as a chrome extension.

Grammarly has done really well https://www.grammarly.com/

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Post by quickthrower2 » Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 4:45 AM UTC

Moz (and friends) have a chrome extension.

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Post by throw03172019 » Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 5:21 AM UTC

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Post by dstik » Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 4:52 PM UTC

I think Hunter (https://hunter.io) started as a chrome extension

Password managers like LastPass (https://www.lastpass.com/) rely on their browser extensions for convenience and usability