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Get paid to browse websites

The One Liner

Get paid to browse the internet like you already do.

The 140 character tweet (or X) version

Imagine if every site visit earned you cash. This Chrome extension turns your clicks into coins—while businesses bid for your attention.

The Longer Story Version

The Problem
Ads are desperate. Popups. Trackers. Retargeting. Every click feels like you're the product—and you are.

But what if you were the customer and the product?

Here’s the deal: websites want your attention. They pay platforms like Google and Facebook just to get you to stop scrolling and visit their site. But you—the one actually clicking and visiting—get nothing.

It’s like getting invited to a party, and the bouncer gets paid but you don’t even get a drink.

You generate value every time you load a page. But that value gets captured by middlemen.

The Solution
This Chrome extension flips the script.

Instead of advertisers paying Big Tech, they pay you.

Here's how it works:

• You install the extension.

• As you browse, it quietly tracks which sites you visit.

• Some of those sites are “partners” who want high-value visitors like you.

• When you visit, they pay. You earn. Your balance fills up in a little virtual piggy bank.

• Spend that cash on other sites, cash it out, or just flex your piggy stats.

But it’s not flat. It’s dynamic.

The extension assigns you a value score based on how you browse. If you’re someone who reads gear reviews and actually buys stuff, you're worth more than someone doomscrolling Reddit. Websites bid accordingly.

High score? Big rewards. You’re a premium user in a world full of tire-kickers.

It’s like Honey + Brave Rewards + dynamic CPM bidding… but smarter.

How We’d Build It

• Frontend: Chrome Extension scaffolded via Plasmo for quick dev and clean UX.

• Backend: Supabase + Postgres for session and piggy bank tracking.

• Valuation Engine: Pull user events into a Pinecone vector DB to build similarity profiles for high-LTV users.

• Bidding System: Lightweight RTB-style auction per visit using Firebase Functions.

• Crypto Rails (Optional): Integrate with Zebec or Superfluid for streaming micro-rewards.

• Payments: Stripe for fiat-out, with fallback to redeem credits on partner sites.

Why It Needs to Exist

Right now, the internet economy is built around middlemen taxing attention.

This tool cuts them out.

• Users get real value for browsing.

• Businesses get more engaged, targeted traffic.

• The web becomes less annoying and more aligned.

It’s like frequent flyer miles for your web history.

And yeah, it’s opt-in. No creepy surveillance. Just a smarter way to reward behavior you’re already doing.

Closing Thought
You’re valuable. Time to get paid like it.

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Your Browser Is the Fastest Startup Platform

Forget waiting on App Store approvals or building a 12-month product roadmap.
If you’re looking for signal, speed, and users—you should be building a Chrome extension.

Not forever. But for now.

Chrome extensions are like startup cheat codes. Lightweight. Powerful. Easy to distribute.
They’re not just for productivity nerds and password managers anymore—they’re MVP playgrounds.

How to Think About Startup Ideas (That Start as Extensions)

A good Chrome extension idea has three ingredients:

1. It lives in the flow of behavior.
   You’re not asking people to open another app. You’re meeting them where they already are—shopping, browsing, tweeting, searching, etc.

2. It adds a superpower or automation.
   Think: “What’s something annoying or manual people do in the browser that could be automatic?”

3. It can start niche and expand.
   The best ideas don’t try to boil the ocean. They solve something small, valuable, and specific—then grow from there.

Some Example Thought Starters

• Reward existing behavior
  People already visit websites, leave reviews, watch videos. What if they got paid for it?
  → e.g., An extension that pays users to visit partner sites based on their value score - as above.

• Turn passive activity into data
  What if you could auto-categorize your Amazon purchases for tax season?
  → Extension reads your orders, sends to Airtable, done.

• Personalize what people already consume
  Everyone reads news, scrolls Twitter, shops online. Can you tailor or filter that?
  → Extension that filters Twitter to only show VCs tweeting about AI.

• Add trust or transparency
  People shop, hire freelancers, book services. Can you surface hidden data or add reputation layers?
  → Show seller refund rates on eBay or Airbnb host complaint frequency.

Tools to Build Fast

You don’t need to be a coder (though it helps). You need to be dangerous.

• Plasmo — The fastest way to scaffold and build a Chrome extension. Great docs, good for devs.

• Bubble + Whalesync — Build no-code backends and sync data with Airtable or Notion.

• Supabase — Firebase alternative for user auth, database, and storage. Great for hacker MVPs.

• Make or Zapier — Glue everything together. Automate onboarding, data flows, etc.

• Beehiiv — Build an audience while you build the product. Capture emails from day one.

Why It Works

Chrome extensions let you test behavior before building the business.

• No brand. No team. No full-stack product.

• Just a feature, solving a specific pain, right in the browser.

• You ship it, 50 people use it, and you watch what they do.

If they use it once and never again? Move on.
If they love it and tell their friends? Go deeper.

This is how big ideas start small.

Final Thought

Startup ideas don’t have to be grand visions.
They can be tiny tools that fix one annoyance.

And the browser? It’s your MVP battlefield.
So start there. Ship small. Learn fast. And when it works—go big.

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