You wanted a Chrome extension that would save you 15 minutes a day. You searched the Chrome Web Store, and it's not there. Now you can just describe it in plain English, and PlugThis builds it for you. The code is yours. Want changes? Chat. Need login or a database? Connect Supabase. Ready to publish? We generate the icons, screenshots, and listing copy the store asks for. Everyone else builds web apps. We build Chrome extensions.
Hey PH 👋 Udaya here, founder of PlugThis. We're a team of four in Bangalore.
Till last year we were building AI products for large enterprises. Then the AI builder wave hit, and tools like Lovable, Bolt, and v0 genuinely inspired us. I built web apps, dashboards, and visualisations with them, and they performed incredibly well.
But when I tried building Chrome extensions with them, it just didn't work. Extensions have a completely different architecture (manifests, content scripts, service workers) and these tools weren't designed for that.
I've been building extensions since 2015 in my first startup, so I know this pain personally. Extensions are the most personal software there is 🧩
We spend 7 hours a day in a browser, and everyone of us has some 15 minute repetitive task they wish would disappear. But there was nowhere to go to build a simple extension for ourself.
We searched the market for something like this. Couldn't find it, so we built it.
PlugThis builds Chrome extensions from a plain English prompt. Real Manifest V3 code that you own, and you can wire up a Supabase backend to make it full stack.
One from my own browser: an extension that reads a Twitter profile as I scroll, researches the person, and scores how close they are to my ICP. Took a few prompts ⚡
For launch week, the Builder plan is at the Starter price, 3 days only 🎁
We are here through the day. Try it out, and tell us what you liked and what you wish it did.
And if you build an extension for yourself today, please share it in the comments. That's honestly the whole point of this product 🙌
Congratulations on the launch ! It is really an awesome product. I used it to create an hourglass timer for my kid who can't tell time yet. I could easily change the UI and make other changes to the extension. Was really surprised at the overall design and quality of the result. Is the mobile app on the roadmap? @nefer_ai
Do the plugins stop working if you stop paying for the subscription? Or you just can’t modify them further?
Chrome extension generation by chatting is a neat angle. The part I'd worry about as a user is permissions review — it's easy for an extension to ask for too much. Do you show a plain-English diff of requested permissions before build/export?
Honest question: Claude Code or Codex can already build Chrome extensions better than it , with unlimited revisions and customization. What's the real differentiator here — what's the magic that those general-purpose tools can't replicate? And are you ready to survive that race? I love innovation, but if the existing giants can do the same thing better and cheaper, it's hard to justify investing time in a niche tool. I think you understand where I'm coming from, but I'm genuinely curious to hear your answer. Thanks!
"Nowhere to go to build a simple extension for yourself" really nails it — I've got a handful of 15-minute browser itches I never build because the manifest/service-worker setup kills the momentum every time. Since the code is real MV3 that I own, does a build stay Chrome-only, or can the same prompt target Firefox/Edge too? Curious how far the "one thing we do" focus stretches across browsers.
Congrats on the launch! 🚀
That "15-minute repetitive task" line got me. Mine is copy pasting snippets from a bunch of open tabs into one notes doc, one at a time. Something that just tossed every highlight into a single running note would genuinely save me.
Nicely done!
Does the generated extension actually get reviewed and approved before hitting the store, or am I on the hook for submitting it myself?
Browser is where all my work happens and it makes a lot of sense to extract all the juice extensions have to offer. Love what PlugThis does. I've known Udaya for a while and can vouch for the founder and his superb team.
Tried describing a simple tab grouper and was surprised the generated extension actually loaded without errors. The version history saved me when I tweaked the prompt too aggressively and wanted to roll back.
Been sitting on a Chrome extension idea for probably a year now and never touched it because I don't really code. The Twitter ICP scoring one you mentioned is basically the exact vibe of the thing I've wanted to build. Gonna actually try this today instead of letting it rot in my notes app lol.
Chrome extensions are the one thing I keep wanting to build and keep bouncing off, because the manifest and permissions setup kills the momentum before I get anywhere. Does PlugThis handle the permissions prompts and store-review gotchas, or does it just get me to working code and I'm on my own for shipping? The last 10% is where my side-project extensions always die.
This hits different for anyone doing VC or market research day to day. Half of my job is skimming through founder profiles, pitch decks, and competitor sites, and there's always some tiny repetitive capture step (pull a founder's LinkedIn into a tracker, flag a company against a thesis, snapshot pricing pages) that's too small to justify a real dev cycle but too annoying to do by hand fifty times a week. Being able to just describe that in plain English and have it live as an actual extension I use daily is exactly the kind of 'nowhere to build this' gap you're describing.
Curious whether you're seeing people build extensions for research/data-gathering workflows like that versus more consumer-facing use cases.
this is REALLY timely, i just built a feature spec for my app and a simple chrome extension was part of the design - I want an extension that will scrape monthly statements from accounts (banking, credit cards, etc) and send them to my app automatically....I am non-technical Lovable app builder so i was not looking forward to trying to figure this out on my own....sounds like you might just have the solution i need. Does this sound like a use case your tool can handle?
This is great Udaya! been trial and error build a chrome extension and keep getting bottleneck. I found something from your product. Big applause!
Building a niche-focused SaaS myself, I love the "Lovable, but for X" positioning — going narrow lets you own the whole workflow. Curious: does PlugThis help with the Chrome Web Store review process too (manifest permissions, privacy disclosures)? That's usually the part that kills momentum for first-time extension builders.
Super excited to check this out and will be trying it for our current web app 'dot.' as we could definitely expand our offerings with a chrome extension!
I tried entering a prompt but nothing is being generated. What button should you press?
Congrats on the launch Udaya and team. 🥳
Building chrome extension is not trivial, you need to understand chrome APIs, manifest, permissions and what not. Just having a super easy way to create an extension with 3-4 prompts makes PlugThis worth it. I’ve created few extensions already and the experience was a breeze.
Wonder if the coverage for other browsers is in the roadmap
About PlugThis on Product Hunt
“Create your own Chrome Extensions by chatting with AI”
PlugThis launched on Product Hunt on July 10th, 2026 and earned 542 upvotes and 114 comments, earning #3 Product of the Day. You wanted a Chrome extension that would save you 15 minutes a day. You searched the Chrome Web Store, and it's not there. Now you can just describe it in plain English, and PlugThis builds it for you. The code is yours. Want changes? Chat. Need login or a database? Connect Supabase. Ready to publish? We generate the icons, screenshots, and listing copy the store asks for. Everyone else builds web apps. We build Chrome extensions.
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Hey PH 👋 Udaya here, founder of PlugThis. We're a team of four in Bangalore.
Till last year we were building AI products for large enterprises. Then the AI builder wave hit, and tools like Lovable, Bolt, and v0 genuinely inspired us. I built web apps, dashboards, and visualisations with them, and they performed incredibly well.
But when I tried building Chrome extensions with them, it just didn't work. Extensions have a completely different architecture (manifests, content scripts, service workers) and these tools weren't designed for that.
I've been building extensions since 2015 in my first startup, so I know this pain personally. Extensions are the most personal software there is 🧩
We spend 7 hours a day in a browser, and everyone of us has some 15 minute repetitive task they wish would disappear. But there was nowhere to go to build a simple extension for ourself.
We searched the market for something like this. Couldn't find it, so we built it.
PlugThis builds Chrome extensions from a plain English prompt. Real Manifest V3 code that you own, and you can wire up a Supabase backend to make it full stack.
One from my own browser: an extension that reads a Twitter profile as I scroll, researches the person, and scores how close they are to my ICP. Took a few prompts ⚡
For launch week, the Builder plan is at the Starter price, 3 days only 🎁
We are here through the day. Try it out, and tell us what you liked and what you wish it did.
And if you build an extension for yourself today, please share it in the comments. That's honestly the whole point of this product 🙌