Browser extensions and web reading
Browser extensions and utilities
Browser extensions and custom browsers that block trackers, clear browsing traces, cut distractions, track time spent on sites, hide or restyle page elements, and add tweaks like volume control or voice commands for everyday web users.
Built for: Privacy-conscious and easily distracted web users
Projects since May 04
204
Different builders
196
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
▲ +38%
AI is the core
2.0%
Projects per week
Mostly browser extension (82%), desktop app (8.3%), web app (4.9%) · from r/chrome_extensions, r/SideProject, r/IMadeThis, r/SaaS
Latest
- Mouse Buddy — Replaces the mouse cursor in Chrome with a user-chosen character.“I built a Chrome extension that lets you customize your mouse cursor with characters – looking for feedback”
- Burly — Opens links in a chosen browser and profile combination on Mac.“I’m testing a tiny anti-freemium model: full app free, 1.99 once if you want to be a supporter”
- Skins — Adds missing features to existing websites through a browser extension, letting users customize tools or make them multiplayer.“Skins.dev - add the features missing from the tools you already use”
- Passport Containers — Routes sites into Firefox containers by host, path, glob or regex rules and syncs those rules across devices via Firefox Sync.“I built a Firefox add-on so my container rules follow me between machines (and can split one site by path)”
- Displays a browser start page with bookmark tiles rendered as WebGL liquid-glass pebbles over the Mac desktop wallpaper.“I built a liquid-glass start page that floats over your actual Mac wallpaper. If there's interest, I'll clean it up and share it, open source of course.”
- Clears browser history on a double-tap of Esc and hides bookmarks behind a PIN.“my kid started doing homework on my laptop”
- Pinter — Hides promoted pins, shopping pins, videos, AI-labelled images and keyword-matched pins on Pinterest in the browser.“I made a free extension that removes ads, shopping pins and AI images from Pinterest”
- Finger Mode — Replaces the normal webpage cursor with a middle-finger cursor in adjustable sizes.“I made a browser extension that turns your cursor into a middle finger 🖕”
- DOMolition — Removes page elements from any website in the browser so the user can clean up or destroy a site's layout.“Destroy any site with DOMolition”
- Broom Cookie Cleaner — Clears and manages browser cookies, cache and history, with scheduled auto-cleaning and per-domain rules.“Built a browser extension to auto-clean cookies/trackers on a schedule. Need honest feedback, giving away a free month :)”
- DOMiltion — Lets users visually demolish elements of a web page they dislike, shown as a playful destruction effect.“DOMiltion - demolish sites which you don't like”
- Hide Reddit For You — Removes the "For You" tab from Reddit's home page in Chromium browsers.“Create an extension to hide the new "For you" tab in reddit”
- Knewbee — Presents five daily lines from real company terms and privacy policies for players to guess the source of and rate their reaction to.“I built a daily game from the fine print of the apps we all clicked "I agree" on”
- Scrollsmith — Changes the design, color, and width of the browser's scrollbar.“I made a Chrome extension for the one part of the browser nobody customizes”
- Privacy Magic — Blocks ads, trackers, and third-party cookies and spoofs browser fingerprinting signals in Chrome.“My extension passes EFF's Cover Your Tracks tests!”
- Lil Bro Wipe — Removes browser history entries matching a user-defined list of sites and keywords, locally without network calls.“I made a history cleaner that wipes by keyword or a list of sites”
- chatsnitch — Lists browser extensions that can read chatbot conversations and lets the user disable them.“i made a free extension that shows which of your extensions can read your chatgpt/claude chats”
- Stay Unseen — Hides read receipts, typing indicators and story views on social sites, downloads media, and blocks feeds in a browser extension.“I built Stay Unseen: An all-in-one desktop social suite (Seen Blocker, Story Viewer, Watermark-Free Media Downloader & Focus Tools)”
- OSSO — Hides filler content on web pages and highlights useful parts of them.“I asked TypeSafeAI's JEV to Highlight the red flags of a privacy policy and to hide the useless filler on web pages and this is the result:”
- Nook — Browses the web on a Mac with built-in ad and tracker blocking, reader mode, a focus mode that hides tabs and toolbar, and clearing of cookies and history on quit.“Nook - a free Mac browser with ad blocking and reader mode built in”
Most discussed
- Removes Chrome's limit of 10 keyboard shortcuts so users can assign more.“2,339% growth. 1,800 site visitors. 2 paying customers. 0 marketing spend. 6 months of building taught us this.”
- DOMiltion — Lets users visually demolish elements of a web page they dislike, shown as a playful destruction effect.“DOMiltion - demolish sites which you don't like”
- Tracks time spent on each website in Chrome and shows where browsing time goes.“I just hit 100 users with a Chrome extension I built myself 😭”
- Hides elements or content on web pages through a browser extension.“700 users to 0 in a single day! :0”
- Nubea — Browses the web with no local history and shows live counts of third-party requests, cookies, trackers and blocked requests for each page.“I vibe-coded a no-history browser that shows the noise around every page”
- Privacy Blur for WhatsApp — Blurs the WhatsApp Web interface so chats are hidden from people nearby or on a shared screen.“I thought no one would purchase my extension. Was surprised to find 2 sales!”
- Adds quick-action buttons to a website by tweaking the CSS of its existing buttons, with a premium tier planned via Lemon Squeezy.“scammed by lemonsqueezie (Lemon Squeezie)”
- Volume Master Remastered — Controls per-tab audio volume in the browser with a redesigned interface and keyboard shortcuts.“I felt like the original Volume Master could be better, so I built a "remastered" version”
- Onlynk — Opens web pages visited from social app in-app browsers in the device's native browser instead.“Launched on Product Hunt today with zero network. Here's the honest truth about it.”
- Smart Blur — Blurs sensitive data like emails, card numbers and phone numbers on web pages, with an optional local model that detects names and addresses.“Is porting a Chrome extension to Firefox actually worth it?”