Show HN: Create Chrome Extensions for internal use
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Show HN: Create Chrome Extensions for internal use
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Re: Show HN: Create Chrome Extensions for internal use
#2Hey HN and the broader world!
We are incredibly excited to share what we have been cooking up . After building Chrome Extensions for recruiters and marketers, we got a glimpse of the power of browser extensions. However, we also got a taste of how hard extensions are to create. This led us down a path of exploring whether companies were interested in building custom internal extensions.
We studied hundreds of custom internal extensions that companies are using today. We've seen companies extend legacy internal tools to increase development speed, create context-aware tools that surface info employees need wherever they are. We've even seen extensions add missing features to purchased software. After synthesizing into a few modes, we set out to build an easier way to create internal extensions.
Come say hi! We are excited to meet you and hopefully help you build some extensions too!
Kevin, Will, James
Re: Show HN: Create Chrome Extensions for internal use
#3We've also spent quite some time researching what extensions companies are already building! Would love to share what we learned: https://dev.to/realkevinyang/what-i-learned-from-studying-10...
Lmk if you have any questions! I'll be here :)
Re: Show HN: Create Chrome Extensions for internal use
#4interesting. my company is stuck using these shitty internal tools that i'd like to customize.
can i use this to extend them (like add buttons, UI elements, surface data from API calls, scrape data)?
Re: Show HN: Create Chrome Extensions for internal use
#5interesting. my company is stuck using these shitty internal tools that i'd like to customize. can i use this to extend them (like add buttons, UI elements, surface data from API calls, scrape data)?
Did you build the tools yourself/do you have access to the code?
One of our big use cases is to extend/customize internal tools with UI/data/logic. Could you share more details? If you're more comfortable offline kevin@extension.dev
Re: Show HN: Create Chrome Extensions for internal use
#6interesting. my company is stuck using these shitty internal tools that i'd like to customize. can i use this to extend them (like add buttons, UI elements, surface data from API calls, scrape data)?
Did you build the tools yourself/do you have access to the code? One of our big use cases is to extend/customize internal tools with UI/data/logic. Could you share more details? If you're more comfortable offline kevin@extension.dev
some are in-house but doing code surgery on the tool and then redeploying our stack is annoying. we'd rather make quick modifications on the front end.
some are SaaS where we don't have access to the codebase. think Salesforce, Zendesk, or Jira.
Re: Show HN: Create Chrome Extensions for internal use
#7There is a huge market of these kind of tools for hyperscaling IRL market startups like Uber, Lyft, Doordash, Airbnb, Ghostkitchens etc.du
They scale up and hire a shitton operations people with a small technical knack - while working with the same shitty systems that they built for the first year of the company.
Combine that with the massive blitscaling they do by just constantly opening new cities and new countries.
And you have a massive demand for quick fixes to bandaid scaling issues. Ive seen companies use shit like iMacros extensions, vimium browser extensions and also custom chrome extenstion to fix that.
Nowadays its pushing more to google appscript (gsheet scripting language) and stuff like airtable/coda, maybe in some cases advanced shit like retool (INSANE).
Re: Show HN: Create Chrome Extensions for internal use
#8interesting. my company is stuck using these shitty internal tools that i'd like to customize. can i use this to extend them (like add buttons, UI elements, surface data from API calls, scrape data)?
you can do anything you want without building your own extension https://www.tampermonkey.net
Re: Show HN: Create Chrome Extensions for internal use
#9There is a huge market of these kind of tools for hyperscaling IRL market startups like Uber, Lyft, Doordash, Airbnb, Ghostkitchens etc.du They scale up and hire a shitton operations people with a small technical knack - while working with the same shitty systems that they built for the first year of the company. Combine that with the massive blitscaling they do by just constantly opening new cities and new countries…
Woah, thank you so much for sharing!! This is really amazing to hear :0
If you are down would love to chat more! kevin@extension.dev
Re: Show HN: Create Chrome Extensions for internal use
#10As somebody who has built quite a few of these internal extensions through the years, technical hurdles were never the problem.
The problem was to persuade managers that they were worth the effort, persuade workers that I wouldn’t “screw up” their preciously-pristine browser, and persuade IT not to use their “UNAUTHORIZED SOFTWARE!!11!” flamethrower. In short, exclusively people-problems.
Keep that in mind, in terms of who you need to sell this to.