u/CryptoSapien00

Vibe coding has made turning ideas into products dead easy — great for speed. But a lot of us (me included 😅) go so deep on an idea it starts feeling like the next big thing, and burn weeks on it.
Here’s the thing: the edge today isn’t the idea, it’s how well you solve a real problem for a real user. So let’s surface the problems worth building for.
Drop your biggest daily nags below — the small everyday annoyances you wish a Chrome extension would just fix.

The best ones tell the whole community what’s actually worth building.

This is going to be a long post and this is NOT shilling. Need genuine advice.

So I built a chrome extension the idea for which came out of my own pain point which is that I watch many long format videos like podcasts, educational content. I do like few highlights from the video which I feel I can keep coming back to. So I move the videos to a custom list or ‘Watch Later’. As is the case I believe with many, either I never come back to Watch Later or I cannot remember what I had watched until I have to search the specific video, or re-scrub to the highlight points. This ‘watch later’ became a graveyard of 200+ videos

So I built the chrome extension where I can 1-click save the specific moments in the video while watching. Underneath is an AI-powered Titling of the moment and a short 2-3 sentence summary of everything happening around that timestamp. The best feature is the Search. I need not remember the exact video title, exact people in the video. If I just remember the context of what I want to search, that is more than enough. AI-powered semantic search will give you the relevant bookmarks in the order of rankings and you can go back to those exact moments in these long videos.

So, I posted about my chrome extension in r/chrome_extension after it went live. The subReddit post got 1100 views in just 24 hours ! I got 13 installs ( 2-3 were F&F favor installs ) but the shocking part was there were no bookmarks. People who installed did not bookmark anything.

So my question is where am I going wrong with my marketing ?

1. Is it the funnel ? Are people dropping off after installation ?
2. Is it the story around the product not resonating with people ? Basically not a desired product ?

I would really appreciate if we can discuss around this. I am a solo developer and perhaps not good with marketing 😊 but I believe in genuinely learning one or two bits from the community.