Life after Company Communicator: Did anyone actually move to Viva Amplify?

Hi all, here is a thing I've been working on from time to time for the last 6 months. With Microsoft retiring the Company Communicator template we had to figure out our next steps for sending corporate updates in Teams over the 2,000 users org. I know Viva Amplify is the official replacement, but at roughly $2/user/month licensing cost is hard to justify for our basic use case.

so we decided to keep the open-source template and maintain it internally. It already saves us a lot of money compared to Amplify now, but we definitely traded licensing fees for some operational headaches. We've had to do a lot just to keep it working (fixing SSO chains, dealing with client cache, handling multi-tenant types, and sorting out admin consent) so taking ownership is far from a deploy-and-forget solution.

I'm curious how the rest of you are dealing with this transition. Did your org bite the bullet on Amplify, find a third-party tool, or keep the old CC template alive? I'm wondering if maintaining the old template is the right path, or if there are any hidden issues we might be missing with this approach or some other approaches you use.

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u/Nervous_Star_8721 — 6 days ago

I have only 357 page views and 94 install on my safari extension - is extension market dead?

Link-Grabber stats for last 2 months

It is 2 month stats chart, I see small spike at start and now it seems like app felt in silo, is it normal for extension market or I should work on ASO and ets? Someone say forget app for 6 months and see if it get results then... Any advices from extension developers here?

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u/Nervous_Star_8721 — 15 days ago
▲ 4 r/cursor

I`m kinda surprised of quality of GenerateImage, what about you?

Today I was working on an educational youtube video for onу of apps and was almost shocked that Cursor built in GenerateImage tool gave me this from one prompt 🤖

Before I asked Cursor to give me prompt and used it in external image generation AI, today Grok asked my "Here is prompt, do you want me to generate it now?"

- YES

And here is result, wow, really didn't expect this. Will change my workflow and try to generate more next time... Thank you Cursor for 20$ 😄

What is your experience? Do you use Cursor built-in or external tools?

\"SharePoint Wiki from Markdown\" youtube video banner generated from one prompt in Cursor!!!

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u/Nervous_Star_8721 — 16 days ago
▲ 4 r/research_apps+1 crossposts

Eyasy and straightforward way on how to extract links from a PDF

Hey folks.

This is not about the app I made (chrome extension called link grabber eyar ago) - this is about people have been sliding into my support inbox asking if it works on pdfs pages.

So i finally sat down and listened to the feedback. turns out, a bunch of you are using it on research papers, product catalogs, and pitch decks, and you just want to grab every url out of the file without copying them one by one like a medieval scribe.

I finally bult it and integrated in the same link-extraction flow as with normall web-pages: the new update lets you do exactly that. open any pdf in chrome, hit the extension button, and it pulls out both the clickable hyperlinks and the plain text urls that are just sitting there in the paragraphs. puts them all in one list where you can copy or export them.

only catches: it wont work on scanned image-only pdfs, because it cant read the text in those. and it ignores internal page links, because who needs those anyway.

just thought i'd drop this here since the feature pretty much exists because of the feedback from this community. not trying to sell anything, just letting you know we finally fixed the thing you were complaining about. cheers.

more info about the update can be found here https://link-grabber.com/blog/extract-links-from-pdf, app name is link-grabber (purple-blue colors icon if search in chrome web store)

u/Nervous_Star_8721 — 26 days ago

I ported my chromium Link Grabber addon to Firefox and have 47 users!!!

Hi

It took me 2 years of developing my little lovely chome extension and this spring I decided to port it to other stores. Firefox addon store was the first I tried and it was pretyy good experience for me to be honest! And now I`m really proud to see Firefox store users install it and use every day! 🚀

The extension is a powerfull and pretty useful tool I use in my daily routine almost every day, it allows to mass collect links from any web page and then filter, copy, export, bookmark or save in named links. Even with auto-crawler to half-auto (you can set limits) get links.

It might help a lot if your daily working routine heavely tied with hyperlinks, like research tasks, extracting youtube\instagram links for marketing, or even working with heavey admin dashboards (where we normall work with tons of internal links).

If anyone is interested here is the link to try - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mass-link-grabber/ - please leave review in addon magazine if you like the app, it will help me a lot 🥰

I`m very open to any feedback and ready to share technical details of porting chome to firefox if anyone is interested!

Have a good rest of the day!

u/Nervous_Star_8721 — 2 months ago
▲ 2 r/Safari

Happy to share that Link Grabber extension now is available in Safari store!!!

Hi
I just wanted to share this app I've developed 2 years ago - called Link Grabber. It just has been released in Safari and I`m proud it can be installed on Mac also now.

Basically, if you ever need to copy a bunch of links from a webpage, this thing makes it super easy. Instead of right-clicking each link one by one and copying them manually, you just select the area on the page you care about and it pulls all the links at once.

I use it a lot for work. For example, if you have a support dashboard like Jira or Zendesk with a list of ticket numbers, you can grab all those links in one go and export them to Excel. Same thing if you are looking at a YouTube channel and want to collect all the video URLs, or if you are doing research and need to grab links from a bunch of different pages.

The app also lets you filter out stuff you don't need, remove duplicate links, and export everything as a CSV file or just copy them to your clipboard. There is even a crawler feature where you give it one website address and it will go through the whole site and collect links for you.

I know a lot of people used to use Linkclump before it stopped working, and this feels like a really good replacement. It is simple to use and gets the job done without any fuss.

If you want to check it out, here is the link for Safari:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/link-grabber-pro/id6775464401?mt=12

Honestly, if you do any kind of research or data work in your browser, give it a try. It turns a really annoying task into something that takes two seconds.

u/Nervous_Star_8721 — 2 months ago
▲ 2 r/Safari+1 crossposts

Is it taking so long? Submitted extension 2 weeks ago and still in waiting queue

Hi, any way I can push the process?

  • re-submit? will it help or rather re-start queue from start?
  • I can`t even use Expidited review - I select my app but it does not show me Platfroms to select from list of platforms....

Any advice?

u/Nervous_Star_8721 — 2 months ago

Crazy CWS WAU stats

From January they changed smth... I can`t believe WAU anymore:

  • Install\uninstall stats stay predictable
  • WAU jumps +-3000 each 2 months...
u/Nervous_Star_8721 — 3 months ago

I just launched Cursorex on PH - free app to chat with Cursor in browser

The sense of the app can be described it 3 points:

➤ You don`t have to pay money to talk with AI in your Browser if you have already Cursor
➤ You don`t need even to have Cursor installed on your PC
➤ All chat conversations are stored locally on your PC

If you interested in this concept as well as I do - please support my work by voting here

Thank you in advance, any feedback appriciated.

u/Nervous_Star_8721 — 3 months ago

POV - Improve reviews in CWS with one small (but important) rule

I`m sure all want to get more 5-star reviews to get ranked higher in CWS and so get even more users

The easies and the most straingforward way to get reviews - is to ask users to leave review

I integrated 'Ask for review' module in the app right from start but it didn`t work well (see gray area)

Then one day I changed one thing and it started to gain me stars

🔹Before - I simply asked for reviews after 2-3 key actions (let`s say user inserted HTML template into email 3 times, then I asked to leave review when he open HTML editor 3rd time)

🔹After (💎 the Fix) - The same logic, but I started to ask for review right after the successfull user action (not before next editor opening).

Lesson learned - identify the main Job user do with your app, where ther User experience Aha moment, and ask for review right after that.

Hope this can help you too.

u/Nervous_Star_8721 — 3 months ago
▲ 0 r/cursor

You don`t have to extra pay to chat with AI in your Browser if you already have Cursor plan

Hi I`m creator of Cursorex

I`m using Cursor last 1.5 years since all this AI boom has started. But I always asked myself, why I pay for Cursor and have to pay someone else (OpenAI, Grok, etc.) to just have AI chat in my browser - why can`t I use LLM through my already paid cursor API?

Last few weeks 2 things changed

  1. Cursor released Cursor typescipt SDK on Apr 29, 2026
  2. Friend of mine posted about another extension called Chromex (that connect to Codex on you PC and works like AI chat exactly like I wanted but with OpenAI API)

So inspired by the idea I decided to develop Cursorex - simple app to chat with Cursor AI from your browser!

Questions and Feedback

The app is very early MVP and I wanna to see if there is some interest in it and to hear any feedback from this community, what works, what not, what you`d like to add, how would you like to use it ...!?

All completely Free.

Thank you in advance!

u/Nervous_Star_8721 — 3 months ago

What a cool time we live in with all this AI boom.

Just the other day, my wife was complaining about a massive headache she has at her travel agency: clients or colleagues are constantly looking at her monitor, or she has to share her screen, and they end up seeing confidential net prices and client PII.

Literally 2 days later, I built Blur Rabbit - a 1-click extension to hide sensitive data for screen sharing and over-the-shoulder meetings.

The Problem it solves: When you're on a Zoom call (or doing a live demo in person), you often need to show a real CRM, admin panel, or analytics dashboard. Setting up dummy data takes forever, but you can't just expose real client names, deal IDs, or internal prices. Blur Rabbit lets you use your real tools while keeping the sensitive stuff completely hidden.

What’s inside: I wanted it to be as frictionless as possible, so here is what it does:

  • 🪄 Auto-detect: Automatically finds and blurs emails, phone numbers, prices/money, IBANs, and sensitive inputs on the fly.
  • 🎯 Point & Click: You can manually pick any element on the page to blur it.
  • 🌍 Smart Rules: Set rules globally, per domain, or for specific URLs. The masks survive page reloads, SPA navigation, and scrolling.
  • ⌨️ Quick Toggle: Hit Alt+S to instantly blur/unblur the whole page when someone unexpectedly walks up to your desk.
  • 👀 Peek Mode: Hold a hotkey (like Ctrl/Cmd) and hover over a blurred value to temporarily reveal it just for yourself.
  • 🔒 100% Local: Everything runs in the browser DOM. No screen capturing, no cloud uploads. Total privacy.

Technical Caveats:

🎁 not obvious but smart tech details for this community!

  • auto-inject content-scripts on app update - no need to reload pages after install
  • auto-blur and manual massk ran in different browser animation frames - so it does not block UI when applied
  • React-firendly - it doesn`t change DOM so react-bsed sites work as before
  • SidePanel fallback - for Yandex Browser and other that does not support sidePanel we have fallback to Popup
  • parent-chlid communication in iframes on page - so can work with pages with iframes insede w\o limits.

Target Audience: B2B presales, consulting, or just share your screen a lot, I think this could save you some anxiety.

Would love to hear your thoughts! Are there any other specific data types or patterns you usually need to hide during screen shares?

Link: Blur Rabbit - Blur Screen PII for Privacy

u/Nervous_Star_8721 — 4 months ago

What a cool time we live in with all this AI boom.

Just the other day, my wife was complaining about a massive headache she has at her travel agency: clients or colleagues are constantly looking at her monitor, or she has to share her screen, and they end up seeing confidential net prices and client PII.

Literally 2 days later, I built Blur Rabbit chrome extension - a 1-click extension to hide sensitive data for screen sharing and over-the-shoulder meetings.

The Problem it solves: When you're on a Zoom call (or doing a live demo in person), you often need to show a real CRM, admin panel, or analytics dashboard. Setting up dummy data takes forever, but you can't just expose real client names, deal IDs, or internal prices. Blur Rabbit lets you use your real tools while keeping the sensitive stuff completely hidden.

What’s inside: I wanted it to be as frictionless as possible, so here is what it does:

  • Automatically finds and blurs emails, phone numbers, prices/money, IBANs, and sensitive inputs on the fly.
  • You can manually pick any element on the page to blur it (sometimes we can`t auto-detect all prices due to odd sites HTML parts).
  • Set rules globally, per domain, or for specific URLs. The masks survive page reloads, SPA navigation, and scrolling.
  • Hit Alt+S to instantly blur/unblur the whole page when someone unexpectedly walks up to your desk.
  • Hold a hotkey (like Ctrl/Cmd) and hover over a blurred value to temporarily reveal it just for yourself.
  • Everything runs in the browser DOM. No screen capturing, no cloud uploads. Total privacy.

If you do any B2B presales, consulting, or just share your screen a lot, I think this could save you some anxiety.

Would love to hear your thoughts! Are there any other specific data types or patterns you usually need to hide during screen shares?

Not selling at all, it is 100% free, for all who want to try just google "Blur Rabbit chrome extension"

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u/Nervous_Star_8721 — 4 months ago