u/ItsYashKapoor

I keep going back and forth on this with my own Tabisto extension. Every time I think about adding a new setting, I ask myself if it actually makes the extension better, or if it just makes the settings page longer.

Some users want full control. They want to change every little thing. Other users just want it to work without touching anything. I cannot make both sides happy at once, and I do not think there is a clean answer here.

My rule right now is simple. I only add a setting if more than one person asks for the same thing. If it is just one person, I usually skip it or wait and see.

How do you all decide this for your own extensions? Do you have a rule you follow, or do you just go with your gut each time?

I have been building my Tabisto (bookmark manager) extension for a while now. This week it hit 224 weekly users. But the bigger thing for me was different: I got my first paying subscribers ever. Just 5 people. Small number, but it felt huge.

224 weekly active users

Getting users was one kind of hard. Getting someone to actually pay was a whole different kind of hard. Most of what worked had nothing to do with ads. I sent an email to my own customers from another product I run. I talked to people I already knew on Twitter.

I fixed my Chrome Web Store page properly: new title, new pictures, plain words instead of fancy ones. That one thing brought in more steady users than anything else I tried.

5 active paid subscribers right now

4 active trials right now

The first paying subscriber felt strange in a good way. The money was small. What mattered was someone trusted this enough to actually pay for it.

If you have gotten your first paying user on something you built, what did that moment feel like for you?

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I got my first 100 users on my extension a while back. Here is what I did, and what did not work at all.

What I tried:

• Sent an email to my own customers from my other business
• Posted on Twitter/X almost every day
• Talked to people I already knew on Twitter
• Shared it in a few Skool communities
• Rewrote my Chrome Web Store page

What did help from Twitter/X was the people I actually knew there. A few of them tried it early and told me what was wrong with it. That feedback led to real changes I made later. That helped more than all the posting.

The store page helped the most out of everything: new title, new pictures, clearer words. After I fixed it, new users kept showing up on their own every week.

The email to my old customers helped too. They already knew me, so it was easy for them to say yes.

Skool communities were mixed. Some people cared, most did not.

Biggest thing I learned: one good store page beat two weeks of daily tweets. And a few real people beat a hundred random posts.

If you are building something too, what did you think would work but did not?

I am thinking about launching my extension on Product Hunt soon and wanted to ask people who have actually done it. Did it help you get real users, or was it mostly just a nice badge with no lasting traffic after launch day?

I keep reading mixed things about it. Some builders say it gave them a real spike and their extension took off from there. Others say they got a handful of upvotes and then nothing happened at all. I want to know if it is worth putting real effort into preparing for, or if that time is better spent somewhere else.

If you have launched before, a few things I am curious about.

Did you plan it out ahead of time, or did you just post it and see what happened?

Did the users from it actually stick around and keep using your extension, or did most of them disappear after a day?

And if you were starting over, would you do it again?

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I searched "speed dial 2 alternative" on Google today, just checking something, and my own extension showed up right inside the AI answer box at the top, next to a couple other new tab tools. Nobody put it there for me. I did not pay for it either. It happened because of SEO work I put into my own site over the last few months.

I built this extension on my own, it is a new tab page and bookmark manager. You cannot fake your way into that AI box. Google only pulls from pages it already trusts and understands clearly. So seeing my page show up there told me the work actually did something.

The part that seemed to help the most was writing one real page just for "Speed Dial 2 alternative" instead of stuffing that phrase onto my homepage. I explained clearly what my extension does differently, and I kept the writing plain instead of making it sound like an ad.

Sharing this here because this sub actually gets why it matters. Most people I know would just nod and move on.

Has anyone else here had a page from their extension's site end up inside an AI Overview? What did you do on that page that you did not do anywhere else?

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Been watching my extension grow steadily for the past month. Nothing paid, just word of mouth and a few communities. Weekly users climbed from around 50 to 140+ over 30 days.

Then July 21 just shows 0. No warning, no policy email, nothing in the dashboard flagging an issue. Still says "Published - public."

It's Tabisto, a bookmark manager and new tab replacement, if that matters. Screenshot attached.

Has anyone seen the last day or two just show as 0 because the data hasn't caught up yet? Or did you have a real drop like this that turned out to be something worse, like a review flag or a metrics reset?

Not sure if I should be worried or just wait it out.

Tabisto users is showing 0 for 21st July in Chrome Web Store