Chrome Extension is Making $399,000 / month

[dzan]

I have made a tool which enables me to filter Web Store extensions by almost any criteria.

Here is this list of TOP 5 Chrome extensions by M.R.R.

* Open SEO Stats(Formerly: PageRank Status) $399,000.00 * Beebs- Watch BBC iPlayer, ITV & C4 Abroad $112,475.00 * AMZ Review to Order Matching $49,990.00 * Relay Auto-Refresher $49,990.00 * Relay Auto Booker $25,294.94

The tool for making a market analysis such as the one above is available here:

https://webstoreinsight.com/

[dang]

Hi, you should post your link as a Show HN and make it be about your work, not some extension making a pile of money. Leading with that detail is sensational and distracting, and the idea on HN is to discuss more deeply interesting things. If you'd write about your tool, how you came to work on it, and what's different about it, the community might respond better.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638 for more.

[dzan]

Thanks, I will look at it.

[non-entity]

Some of these seem so simple (conceptually at least). How do they generate so much money? Are people really paying for chrome extensions?

[dzan]

there are over 20k paid extensions on Web Store, not all of them have users, but I saw some crazy stuff, people are really willing to pay for anything.

[jurgenwerk]

How do you calculate MRR given many of the extensions you display are just a one time purchase? That's not recurring revenue.

For example, if an extension has 1000 users and is priced at $5, that's not $5000 MRR. This only tells that the extension earned approximately $5000 since it got published in the store.

[dzan]

I am not showing M.R.R. for extensions which have only one-time payment option, only the extensions charging monthly / yearly.

[pknerd]

How extensions earn money?

[dzan]

You can monetize them, either you will choose paid option (user have to pay before install) or through in-app products. Another options would be to create some kind of backend and charge a subscription for that.

[dzan]

Better formatting:

* Open SEO Stats(Formerly: PageRank Status) $399,000.00

* Beebs- Watch BBC iPlayer, ITV & C4 Abroad $112,475.00

* AMZ Review to Order Matching $49,990.00

* Relay Auto-Refresher $49,990.00

* Relay Auto Booker $25,294.94