Here is a summary of the top 100 most interesting internal extensions we found!
Excited to hear your thoughts, are you building internal extensions yourself?
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What problems are developers trying to solve?
- Give employees better access to internal information to do their jobs (custom knowledge base, FAQ search, internal directory)
- Streamline a tedious and/or error-prone browser process
- SaaS doesn't easily surface information that my employees need
- Hosting a frontend for my internal tool is too cumbersome
- Having to context switch to use a certain type of internal tool is not preferable
- My devs need an ad hoc tool (dev tools)
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Breakdown of 100 internal extensions by functionality (Note: these categories are not mutually exclusive.)
knowledge sharing: exposing data in the right context (READ) to remove context switching
19 instances
frontend automations/form filling/take actions
9 instances
UI modification + additional functionality on existing tooling
17 instances
Scraping
3 instances
Integrations used in context (CRUD)
24 instances
developer focused tools: PR/debugging and etc.
14 instances
Internal productivity functionality (credential saving and etc., rather vague)
19 instances
Analytics and tracking
6 instances
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Resources
Airtable of the 100 Chrome Extensions: https://airtable.com/shrz1b4O3lC3Osnj1/tblUrp8Pv1I2IDMpz
Same post with better formatting: https://dev.to/realkevinyang/what-i-learned-from-studying-100-internal-chrome-extensions-a7n