ExtPay Alternatives

Reviews and mentions

• Ask HN: Show us your low-tech/simple stack side projects
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jan 2022

  I run https://extensionpay.com off a single server with a SQLite database. That feels kind of low-tech these days :) But SQLite has a lot going for it in production! https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/consider-sqlite

  The more high-tech part is that it's a SvelteKit app — so it has server-side rendering (for performance/SEO) with client-side hydration and other nice things. In fact, I like this stack so much that I'm going to spin it out into its own starter template so other people don't have to code all the tedious features that most apps have (like user auth, admin dashboards, etc): https://sveltesaas.com

• I make $3K/mo from a browser extension
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jan 2022

  <3 Tony! It's been fun watching you build in public and I appreciate you weaving spirituality throughout your working life.

  I also make around $250 / month helping people make browser extensions that make money :) https://extensionpay.com

• My Microstartups make $500/day while I'm sleeping
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jan 2022

  I empathize with you. I applied for disability and am really limited in my ability to work. But I want to create income-generating businesses so I can have income that's not directly tied to my time and effort.

  Depending on your disabilities it may be a tough road. The common wisdom is that most businesses fail — it takes a lot of skill, creativity, luck, and hard work to make a business that generates income, even for people without disabilities. I would say if money is your sole objective you might be better off doing light contracting work.

  For generating business ideas, you might look at this post from IndieHackers creator Courtland Allen. He lists a lot of the pitfalls about business ideas he's seen when interviewing indie hackers: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-to-brainstorm-great-bu...

  You might also want to limit your idea generation to businesses that will reliably generate income month-to-month (if that's important to you). And if you want it to be lucrative you might consider a business that solves problems for other businesses (since they tend to have money and are willing to spend it if your service is valuable — it can be hard for consumer apps to be very lucrative).

  One thing I learned as someone with limited abilities is that it helps to be very clear about your own goals and spend some time thinking about a roadmap of what tasks (marketing, developing, etc) will help get you there. This is so you can minimize wasted time and effort, which is extra precious when you're limited.

  I made https://extensionpay.com and it generates a couple hundred dollars a month with very little ongoing effort. It also helps other developers generate revenue from their browser extensions, so that gives me a good feeling.

• So one Person wants to buy my Extension....
  2 projects | reddit.com/r/chrome_extensions | 29 Dec 2021

  You might look into ExtensionPay for adding paid features to your extension.

• ExtensionPay — Open source library to add payments to browser extensions
  1 project | reddit.com/r/chrome_extensions | 7 Dec 2021
• Tweak Web Font - An iOS Safari Extension to customize fonts in Safari
  1 project | reddit.com/r/SideProject | 6 Dec 2021

  Nice idea! If you want to release pro features for more browsers, maybe check out my project ExtensionPay.

• Chrome phasing out Manifest v2 support from Jan 2022
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Dec 2021

  Yeah this is a very awkward release, and not just because MV3 cripples the most important extensions (adblockers).

  Firefox also hasn't released MV3 support yet so extensions that are cross-browser can't be MV3, which will be really annoying when Chrome no longer accepts MV2 extensions.

  I ran into this just yesterday when I tried to release an extension that removes those stupid fixed banners that take up vertical screen space when you're trying to read an article (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/remove-floati...). I tried to convert it to MV3 only to test on Firefox and find out it doesn't work.

  I also run https://extensionpay.com which lets developers easily take payments in their extensions without writing their own backend or paying for server costs. A lot of the developers using ExtensionPay in their extensions default to using MV3 since that's what Google says they should do, despite its limitations. It's a really sad state of affairs.

• Show HN: Overlay of Google meet participants Chrome Extension
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Nov 2021

  Cool! Seems really useful for people to be more productive. If you're ever interested in adding paid features maybe you could try my project https://extensionpay.com

• Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have for HNers in 2021?
  28 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Nov 2021

  Lots of good extensions in this thread.

  Here are some optional extensions I like:

  - Twemex - https://twemex.app/ - Adds a really useful sidebar to Twitter.

  - Recipe Filter - https://github.com/sean-public/RecipeFilter - Focuses recipes front and center on food blogs

  - Notion Boost - https://gourav.io/notion-boost - Adds a lot of really nice features to Notion

  - Tampermonkey - https://www.tampermonkey.net/ - Lets you create your own JS customizations on web pages without needing to make a whole browser extension.

  I really wish it was far easier for everyday people to make their own personal browser extension-like functionality and share it with others. Extending the apps we use feels really empowering and can help people transition from helpless consumers of apps to authors of how their computer works. Here's an essay I like detailing this view:

  https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2019/07/29/browser-extensions.h...

  And while I'm here I'd also like to plug a service I wrote that lets you easily add paid features to extensions you develop:

  https://extensionpay.com

  I made it to use myself but lots of developers have found it useful in monetizing their extensions without ads or selling user data. And even to my surprise, users are actually willing to pay for browser extensions! The service has made devs over $13k since I launched earlier this year!

• Ask HN: Any indie developers making money from browser extensions?
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Nov 2021

  I run https://extensionpay.com which lets devs take payments for their extensions without needing to run their own servers. So I happen to know that my users have made over $11k since I started earlier this year! Not bad.

  I also wrote this article showing 7 indie extensions that make quite a bit of money: https://extensionpay.com/articles/browser-extensions-make-mo...

• Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Sep 2021

  I run a service that lets browser extension developers take payments in their extensions without needing to run their own servers* and it's been frustrating watching the MV3 rollout. The documentation isn't good, there are unresolved issues, and every developer making an extension adopts it because Google says that's the new thing everyone has to use.

  And sigh, I hope uBlock Origin continues to work — the web sucks without it. Maybe Mozilla could hire the devs and integrate it into Firefox.

  * https://extensionpay.com

• Tab Close Gold - Chrome extension to auto close tabs with blacklisted keywords
  2 projects | reddit.com/r/chrome_extensions | 19 Sep 2021

  Also, if you ever want to add paid features, please consider trying my other project ExtensionPay! :)

• My sideproject lets developers take payments in browser extensions
  1 project | reddit.com/r/SideProject | 15 Sep 2021
• Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack (2021)?
  27 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Aug 2021
• Does Manifest v3 make client-side code impossible to truly protect?
  1 project | reddit.com/r/chrome_extensions | 15 Aug 2021

  I made and use ExtensionPay in my own extensions which makes it really easy to take secure payments. It's uses a server API so it can't be hacked, is open-source, and works across all browsers, not just Chrome.