How I Built It: $20K/Month Chrome Extension | Starter Story

Saeed Ezadi built a browser extension called Superpower ChatGPT that now generates $20,000 to $30,000 in monthly recurring revenue. He is the only person working on it. The extension has been downloaded roughly 270,000 times and has about 150,000 weekly active users. He started it a year and a half ago, and he had never built a browser extension before. He learned how in two or three days after ChatGPT launched and shipped the first version with just two features.

The Platform Strategy: Building Inside Existing Marketplaces

Saeed's core strategic insight is that building for an existing platform is fundamentally easier than launching a standalone SaaS product. "Competing with everyone on the internet is a lot harder than competing with a limited number of players in a smaller marketplace," he says. The logic is straightforward: platforms like Gmail, YouTube, Twitter, or ChatGPT already have massive user bases. You do not need to attract people to a new website or convince them to sign up for another service. You just need to offer a feature that a fraction of those users want. "If only like 2,000 people want that feature, that's a good amount of revenue for you to just live off of."