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Re: Show HN: Create Chrome Extensions for internal use

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Post by kkevv »

rasz wrote: post #8
aiwizard wrote: post #4

interesting. 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

Yeah! We drew a lot of inspiration from TamperMonkey. We think of what we are building almost as an "enterprise user script." We have a "shell" extension that hosts all the UI, automations, and JS that you write. And, when you are ready to share with your team, you can just install our shell extension, login, and everything you built is instantly available to those with access!

Re: Show HN: Create Chrome Extensions for internal use

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Post by mritchie712 »

kkevv wrote: post #19
mritchie712 wrote: post #15

I like it. Do you support WebSQL? One category of apps I think would be interesting is caching SaaS data locally to make for fast search. e.g. Intercom is painfully slow, I want an extension that caches recent Intercom data for fast search and messaging.

Ohh, We haven't tried WebSQL yet with our builder, but from a quick Google search it seems possible! Another route is to use something like http://alasql.org/ to cache data in localstorage so you can query it instantly. Would a search UX be better, or a text box to directly write SQL over your data?

Yeah, we use alasql in the app I linked to below. It's amazing! Also supports querying CSV's, Excel, Sheets, etc. Pretty amazing package.

Re: Show HN: Create Chrome Extensions for internal use

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Post by mritchie712 »

kkevv wrote: post #18
mritchie712 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We made this extension recently. It lets you query data in any ` ` in any open Chrome tab. Pretty nuts what you can build with extensions vs. a standard web app. Good luck! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sqanything/naejbcf... https://doc.seekwell.io/sqanything

Woah that's amazing! I thought the name SeekWell was familiar, I think we used your SQL -> GSheets integration before!

Cool, curious, what company were you at?

Good luck with the new thing!

Re: Show HN: Create Chrome Extensions for internal use

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Post by Glench »

mritchie712 wrote: post #16
mritchie712 wrote: post #15

I like it. Do you support WebSQL? One category of apps I think would be interesting is caching SaaS data locally to make for fast search. e.g. Intercom is painfully slow, I want an extension that caches recent Intercom data for fast search and messaging.

We made this extension recently. It lets you query data in any ` ` in any open Chrome tab. Pretty nuts what you can build with extensions vs. a standard web app. Good luck! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sqanything/naejbcf... https://doc.seekwell.io/sqanything

awesome! Have you considered taking payments? I recently made a browser extension payment system that you don't even need to run your own server to use: https://extensionpay.com/

Re: Show HN: Create Chrome Extensions for internal use

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Post by Jommi »

kkevv wrote: post #9
Jommi wrote: post #7

There 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

I signed up.

Re: Show HN: Create Chrome Extensions for internal use

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Post by fxnoob »

rasz wrote: post #8
aiwizard wrote: post #4

interesting. 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

Some time ago I made a script manager(https://github.com/fxnoob/Hand-in-the-air) inspired by Alexa skills system. Where you invoke scripts with hand gestures or with your voice.

Re: Show HN: Create Chrome Extensions for internal use

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Post by kkevv »

Glench wrote: post #24
mritchie712 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We made this extension recently. It lets you query data in any ` ` in any open Chrome tab. Pretty nuts what you can build with extensions vs. a standard web app. Good luck! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sqanything/naejbcf... https://doc.seekwell.io/sqanything

awesome! Have you considered taking payments? I recently made a browser extension payment system that you don't even need to run your own server to use: https://extensionpay.com/

This is cool, extremely relevant now that Google removed payments for extensions!

We are free during the developer preview/beta and plan to have a really generous hobby tier. We are rolling our own Stripe integration down the road for enterprise users!

Re: Show HN: Create Chrome Extensions for internal use

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Post by flavioheleno »

kkevv wrote: post #2

Hey 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…

Just had a call with Kevin and my mind got blown away. The product, although very early on, is superb! The possibilities it opens for companies that are scaling is simply amazing! I'm looking very much forward to see this being used by my company in the not-so-distant future! Well done K/W/J!

Re: Show HN: Create Chrome Extensions for internal use

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Post by kkevv »

flavioheleno wrote: post #28
kkevv wrote: post #2

Hey 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…

Just had a call with Kevin and my mind got blown away. The product, although very early on, is superb! The possibilities it opens for companies that are scaling is simply amazing! I'm looking very much forward to see this being used by my company in the not-so-distant future! Well done K/W/J!

Woooo thank you for the kind words Flávio :) Excited to help you out really really soon!!
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