Show HN: Create Chrome Extensions for internal use

As somebody who has built quite a few of these internal extensions through the years, technical hurdles were never the problem.<p>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.<p>Keep that in mind, in terms of who you need to sell this to.

There is a huge market of these kind of tools for hyperscaling IRL market startups like Uber, Lyft, Doordash, Airbnb, Ghostkitchens etc.du<p>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.<p>Combine that with the massive blitscaling they do by just constantly opening new cities and new countries.<p>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.<p>Nowadays its pushing more to google appscript (gsheet scripting language) and stuff like airtable&#x2F;coda, maybe in some cases advanced shit like retool (INSANE).

Hey HN and the broader world!<p>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.<p>We studied hundreds of custom internal extensions that companies are using today. We&#x27;ve seen companies extend legacy internal tools to increase development speed, create context-aware tools that surface info employees need wherever they are. We&#x27;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.<p>Come say hi! We are excited to meet you and hopefully help you build some extensions too!<p>Kevin, Will, James

We&#x27;ve also spent quite some time researching what extensions companies are already building! Would love to share what we learned: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.to&#x2F;realkevinyang&#x2F;what-i-learned-from-studying-100-internal-chrome-extensions-a7n" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.to&#x2F;realkevinyang&#x2F;what-i-learned-from-studying-10...</a><p>Lmk if you have any questions! I&#x27;ll be here :)

Aren&#x27;t companies using Robotic process automation (RPA) software solutions to automate workflows.<p>There are also tools like Selenium, AutoIt and iMacros to automate workflows but I think the best thing is to have in house made native solution for your workflow automation but I guess not all companies can afford it.

I like it. Do you support WebSQL?<p>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.

interesting. my company is stuck using these shitty internal tools that i&#x27;d like to customize.<p>can i use this to extend them (like add buttons, UI elements, surface data from API calls, scrape data)?