mfrisbie
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Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 1 year ago
So this extension is feeding a stream of your browsing activity to a bunch of third party services? No thanks.
Comment · 1 year ago
Looks nice, but that extension is a high-value acquisition target for bad actors, and there's nothing but an email for contact information.
Sideloading eliminates this risk completely.
Comment · 1 year ago
I kept catching myself scrolling down their idiotic feed and wondering what the hell I was doing. Mindless dreck, all of it. Yet I still get cold inbound from it that turns into business, so I can't just abandon the platform entirely.
I wrote a ~50 LOC browser extension that always redirects away from the feed to your profile. Works great, sideload and forget.
Comment · 1 year ago
Some charge a nominal fee, and one I had to travel to a studio to record. Made for a nice weekend in LA with my wife.
Comment · 1 year ago
I run Track & Trace Tools[1], an extension directly targeted at the legal cannabis industry's main compliance platform Metrc.
Since it's targeted at businesses and not consumers, word of mouth has been powerful for me. I've rapidly grown in the state of Michigan thanks to a few very enthusiastic operators.
I also went on a slate of podcasts last year to talk about (read: promote) my product. Podcast hosts are always looking for guests, and most of them didn't cost me a thing.
It's also been helpful to be a Google Developer Expert for web extensions, the Chrome team interviewed me and that gave me a platform to talk about what I was working on[2].
Comment · 2 years ago
I tried very hard to find a way around using an external server, as I knew HN would harp on the related privacy issues. No luck.
Comment · 2 years ago
I'll admit, the launch messaging could have been better.
Comment · 2 years ago
For the record, this is bang on.
Comment · 2 years ago
Creator here - you bet! It's a big problem.
Comment · 2 years ago
Creator here. A check automatically runs every hour, and if there are any changes detected, a badge appears over the extension icon. I decided anything more than that was too invasive.
Company: trackandtrace.tools