Make Chrome extensions for what you actually need
Most browser extensions on the Chrome Web Store solve generic problems. The extensions you actually want — the ones that fit your specific workflow, your team's tools, your audience's needs — don't exist yet. They don't exist because building a Chrome extension by hand takes a developer days. PlugThis flips that economics: you can make a custom Chrome extension in minutes for the price of a few prompts.
This means it's now economical to build a Chrome extension for a single use case you have at work. For a side project where you need a focused tool. For your audience if you're a creator. For your customers if you're a founder. Extensions used to be products. They can now be features, tools, or even disposable utilities.
Who's making extensions with PlugThis?
Founders who want a prototype before committing engineering. They ship a Chrome extension to their first 100 users in a weekend. Marketers automating their own workflows — building scrapers, autofills, and dashboards specific to their stack. Creators making free tools for their audience to drive newsletter signups or YouTube subscriptions. Power users who finally have a way to build the extension they've been describing for years. Developers who use PlugThis to skip the boilerplate and start with a working scaffold.
Make and own
Every extension you make with PlugThis comes with full source code. Edit it, fork it, hand it off to a developer, modify it for a different use case. There's no lock-in, no licensing of generated code, no ongoing dependency on PlugThis once the extension is built. The extension is yours.
This matters because extensions you build for serious use need to be maintainable. Customizable. Forkable. PlugThis gives you the source so you have full control over what you've made.