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• Daily Idea - Instant Chrome Extensions

• Reddit AMA Gone Wild

AI Turns Ideas Into Extensions

Your Chrome extension. No code. No hassle. Need NTE Zero To One to talk it through?

The One Liner

Turn “I wish” into installable Chrome extensions.

The 140 character tweet (or X) version

Say it. Ship it. AI builds your Chrome extension from scratch, no code, no waiting, just working.

The Longer Story Version

The Problem
Most people have killer “wouldn’t it be great if…” ideas for their browser—
…block that annoying popup.
…auto-fill that form.
…summarize this page before you click.

But turning that thought into a real Chrome extension?
You’d need:

• A developer

• The patience of a saint

• A weekend (or month) to burn

99% of ideas die right there.

The Solution
What if you could skip the coding graveyard entirely?

You just tell an AI what you want:

“Make an extension that blocks ads on YouTube.”

It spits out:

• Clean, working code

• A packaged .zip ready to install

• Click-by-click install instructions

• Bonus: auto-updates as the web changes

Like having a personal dev team that never sleeps and never bills by the hour.

How We’d Build It

Stage 1 — MVP (Weekend Warrior)

• Brains: GPT-5 or Claude for code generation + code explanations

• Scaffolding: LangChain or OpenAI Function Calling to handle user prompts and multi-step builds

• Hosting: Simple Bubble or Replit front end for input/output

• Testing: Puppeteer scripts to verify extension actually works before packaging

• Delivery: Bundle via Chrome Extension CLI, output .zip

Stage 2 — Power User Tools

• Let people save, share, and remix extensions

• Integrate with Github Gists for public hosting & version history

• Add one-click “install to Chrome” (auto zipping & manifest updates)

• Monetization: pay-per-extension or unlimited for $X/mo

Stage 3 — GTM & Growth Loops

• Distribution hack: Public gallery of AI-built extensions (SEO gold)

• SparkLoop for viral sharing: free extension if you refer 3 friends

• Partnerships with creator toolkits (e.g., Gumroad, Product Hunt makers)

• Integrate “Request Board” → community votes → AI ships most-requested extensions weekly

Why It Needs to Exist
Because most great browser ideas are stuck in someone’s head.
This tool turns “what if” into “it’s live” before lunch.
The gap between idea and reality just got erased.

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A Message From Our Partner

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If you’re sitting on an idea and want to go from “someday” to “launched” without rewriting a line of code, Glide is your shortcut.

You didn’t mean to fall for it

You were just doomscrolling…
Then bam, there’s the gap.
The thing that should exist. But doesn’t.

Now it’s living rent-free in your head.
And you know if you don’t build it,
someone else will.

NTE Zero to One is your launch kit.
No MBA, no TED talk, just the plan, tools,
and a friendly shove from “someday” to “live.”

$49.
Your idea, out in the wild.

👉 Let’s build before they do.

Reddit AMA Gone Wild: The Chrome Extension Idea Trial

Post your startup idea on Reddit, they said.
Get some constructive feedback, they said.

You drop this in the thread:

“AI that turns any Chrome extension idea into a working download.”

Three mods jump in like it’s the championship round of Startup Fight Club.

u/ShipItNow (speed junkie)
“All in. This is genius. I once paid $1,000 for a dev to make a Chrome extension that just… auto-scrolled. Took 3 weeks. With this? I could launch 20 extensions before my coffee gets cold. Who cares if they’re perfect? Ship it, fix it later.”

Crowd: losing their minds. +500 upvotes in an hour.

u/SkepticalCoder (the paranoid one)
“Yeah… until Google changes an API and your army of AI-built extensions implode. Also, AI code is like a drunk intern, works 80% of the time, but sometimes deletes the entire table. Oh, and security? Congratulations, you just handed phishing scammers a superpower.”

Half the dev subreddit nodding along.

u/AdBlockFan (single-issue voter)
“That’s cute. But can it block more ads than uBlock Origin? No? Pass.”

Everyone else: “…bro?”

The comments turn into a spectator sport:

• Speed vs. quality

• Democratizing dev vs. breaking the web

• The eternal quest to block all the ads

No consensus. But the idea’s stuck in everyone’s head.

Verdict?
If you can win over two of these three personalities, you’re sitting on a goldmine.

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