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I built a Chrome extension that translates corporate LinkedIn speak into what people actually mean

I built a Chrome extension that translates corporate LinkedIn speak into what people actually mean, finished it during my high school exams. Can't afford the $5 Chrome Web Store fee yet so here's how to install it manually in 4 step

here https://linkedin-translator-web.vercel.app/

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u/Equivalent-Brain-234 — 6 days ago
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Founder of DivParser here. Zero paying users for months. Here's what I learned rebuilding from scratch.

A few months ago I launched DivParser — an AI powered web scraping and extraction API. People signed up. Nobody paid.

I could have blamed marketing. Instead I looked at the product.

The truth was brutal. The extraction engine returned incomplete data on large pages. A listing with 48 products came back with 20. Developers noticed immediately and quietly left.

So I went back to the drawing board. Rebuilt the extraction engine. Fixed the incompleteness problem. Added a parse layer where users can upload or paste raw HTML and get clean structured JSON back without any scraping involved.

That last part changed everything. Someone used it on a Google Maps page they downloaded locally and got back 20 structured business records — names, phones, ratings, business types. No scraping, no bot detection issues, just HTML in and clean JSON out.

Then someone extracted 333 products from a Jumia page. Then Yahoo Finance stock data. Then Amazon listings.

What worked:

  • Fixing the actual product problem before touching marketing
  • Emailing new signups personally to understand what they were trying to do
  • Shipping fixes fast — same day when possible
  • Being honest about what DivParser does and doesn't do
  • Writing content that teaches, not content that sells

What didn't:

  • Broad messaging trying to appeal to everyone
  • Chasing bot-protected sites instead of owning the extraction layer
  • Copying competitor positioning instead of finding our own lane

DivParser is now a full extraction platform — scrape any public page, parse any HTML you already have, schedule recurring scrapes, use plain English or our typed schema language Nestlang. REST API, clean JSON, CSV or Excel output.

Still early. Still improving every day. But the product is finally honest about what it is and good at what it does.

Free tier at divparser.com if you want to try it.
use code WELCOME50 for 50% off of any paid plan if you find it interesting

am open for affiliate partnership if you think this is a

u/Equivalent-Brain-234 — 14 days ago