Playbooks
Rebuild a badly reviewed Chrome extension and charge for it
Find popular Chrome extensions with many bad reviews, rebuild the same tool with the complaints fixed, and charge the people who already installed it.
The hard part: picking an extension whose bad reviews are about the product, not just the price, then getting store approval.
Who pays
People who use a popular extension that doesn't do its main job well. They pay for a version that works, either as a subscription or a one-time purchase.
How to build it
Find popular extensions users dislike
Search the Chrome Web Store for extensions with a large user count and a high share of one- and two-star reviews. Read the most recent bad reviews for each candidate.
Sort complaints into themes
Paste the one-star reviews into ChatGPT, Claude, or Grok and ask it to group them into complaint themes. Drop complaints that are only about price from people who never paid.
Build a version that fixes them
Use Claude Code or Cursor to build an extension that does the same core job and fixes the top complaint themes.
Add payments to the extension
Add payments inside the extension with ExtensionPay or Stripe, either as a subscription or a one-time unlock.
Publish with a landing page
Put up a simple landing page on Vercel that lists the specific problems your version fixes, then publish the extension to the Chrome Web Store.
Sources on X
- codyschneider · Apr 29, 2025
Cody Schneider described the method on 2025-04-29: find Chrome extensions with a lot of users and bad reviews, clone one, make it work, and charge for it.
- mikestrives · Jun 28, 2026
On 2026-06-28, mikestrives laid out the same method in 5 steps: go to the Chrome marketplace, find extensions with lots of bad reviews, clone one, improve it based on the negative feedback, and launch.
- SoraiaDev · Sep 28, 2026
SoraiaDev wrote that someone gave their extension, miromiro, 1 star for charging money. The poster says the 'simple' extension has made over $37k, which is their own claim. Their lesson was that people who were never customers should not decide your pricing.
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