Chrome and Firefox extension for regex-powered find-and-replace text editing directly on web pages. The extension was acquired by another developer team and the original repository was retired.
A free Chrome extension that stripped YouTube Shorts out of the feed, sidebar and search results. Its solo developer sold it to Karma, a serial buyer of browser extensions, in August 2023 at around 30-40k users.
Two paid Chrome extensions for Amazon Merch and Kindle Direct Publishing sellers, helping them organise, track and promote listings and designs. Built solo and sold together in a single multi six-figure lump-sum exit that exceeded all their combined subscription income.
Pair of solo-maintained browser extensions: a uBlock Origin fork with extra features plus an anti-adblock defeater, with 200k+ Chrome users. Developer Hugo Xu sold both to two Turkish developers in October 2020.
Chrome extension that automatically suspended unused tabs to free memory and CPU, with over 2 million users. Creator Dean Oemcke handed the project over in June 2020 to a party that purchased the Chrome Web Store publishing rights.
Browser extension that showed ChatGPT answers next to Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and Baidu search results. Built solo and open-sourced by wong2, then acquired in 2023, after which the repository stopped being updated.
Chrome extension that scrapes and extracts email addresses from web pages and search results for lead generation. Its Chrome Web Store changelog records the change of ownership to Carryfest at version 2.2.3.