Chrome Storage API
How vibe coders and indie builders use Chrome Storage API: 38 projects built with it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
38
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
0.3%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
too few to tell
Add-ons built for it
0
Share of stated stacks, per week
Share rather than counts, so changes in how many posts a subreddit lets through don't show up as trends.
Often used with
- Manifest V3 15
- Gemini API 5
- Claude API 4
- ChatGPT 3
- JavaScript 3
- Chrome Extensions API 3
- React 3
- Vite 3
What's built with it
Latest projects built with Chrome Storage API
- Buki — Identifies books in clicked images using a vision model checked against OpenLibrary and saves them to a local shelf.“Buki, a Chrome extension that catches books in any picture”
- Veil — Hides, blurs, or rewrites sensitive data such as money amounts, emails, card numbers, and API keys on web pages during screen shares.“I got tired of leaking revenue and API keys on screen shares, so I built a free extension that hides themgive”
- MW Stats — Computes local analytics for MakerWorld creators from data the site already shows the logged-in user, storing history in chrome.storage.“Built a Manifest V3 extension that keeps all analytics local (no server, no tracking) – feedback welcome”
- Reward Maximizer — Collects credit card offers from banking sites into one local dashboard and alerts on merchants with active offers.“[Showcase] Reward Maximizer — sync and stack credit card offers, 100% local, open source”
- Glance Chrome — Runs the Glance dashboard as a new-tab Chrome extension that fetches RSS, Reddit, Hacker News, weather and other feeds directly in the browser.“Glance Chrome – I ported Glance (the self-hosted dashboard) into a new-tab extension, no server needed”
- Spades UX-Shield — Hides manipulative web UI elements like fake countdown timers, cookie popups, and newsletter overlays using cosmetic CSS filtering.“I got tired of fake countdown timers and cookie popups, so I built a lightweight, purely cosmetic dark pattern blocker (open source)”
- LoadOut — Replaces the new tab page with a project-based home that shows active projects, their next steps, and a search across projects, links, snippets and open tabs.“I built a new tab extension that organizes Chrome around projects instead of tabs (MV3, no host permissions, all local)”
- PhrasePack — Expands typed shortcodes and searchable saved snippets into full text across any website, stored locally in the browser.“[Showcase] PhrasePack — free local-first text expander, no signup, works offline”
- CashThread — Tracks unpaid invoice email threads in Gmail and drafts polite payment follow-ups.“Built a local-only Gmail invoice tracker as a Chrome side panel”
- Workspaces — Groups Chrome tabs into switchable workspaces with parking, moving, recovery and synced settings.“I built an open-source Safari-style Workspaces extension for Chrome”
- I built a keyboard-first… — Searches Chrome bookmarks by subsequence across title, host and folder path from a keyboard-first popup, with optional local meaning-based search via Ollama.“I built a keyboard-first bookmark search (MV3, no bundler, no network in the core)”
- Folder Manager for Google Docs, Sheets & Slides — Adds a collapsible folder sidebar to Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides for organizing and pinning documents.“I got tired of Google Docs having no folder sidebar, so I built one”
- AetherTab — Organizes open browser tabs into saved collections in a Chrome new-tab workspace, with import from bookmarks and other tab managers.“Drag an open tab onto a collection. It saves. The tab closes. My browser stays empty.”
- Mos Tab — Replaces the new tab page with a tab and bookmark manager that saves open tabs into spaces and lets AI assistants search and add to them.“A browser tab manager + new-tab dashboard — and Claude/GPT can save research into it”
- resumefill — Scans a job posting in a side panel, compares it against your resume, drafts application answers, and rewrites the resume to lead with relevant experience.“Built a job application tool and I'm not sure I've built the right thing. Would like some honest input.”