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by bodantogat 668 days ago
How tough is it to market an extension? I’m thinking about building one as an extra feature for my app or service, but I’ve been holding back because I think it might be hard to get it in front of my target audience
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If it’s an extension-website pairing it may be harder to market in general because it’s a complex architecture for users (need to do 2 things)

But stand-alone extensions are pretty easy to market.

For example my most popular extension had about 700_000 users with minimal marketing, I have another extension with 10_000 users with no marketing, another with 5000 users and no marketing, another with 1000 users (and it’s a pretty crappy one, my first) and no marketing

I’ve only been a web dev for 2 years, and building extensions for about 1.5 years

What do your extensions do?
All sorts of things - network blocking, devtools extensions, job-site salary revealers, design tools
I'm curious how to monetize something like a job site salary revealer
Oh that one I can’t monetise as people don’t want to pay for something like that, I just made that out of the goodness of my heart :P