Most of what you pay monthly for is solving a problem that lives inside one browser tab. I build a Chrome extension that does that one thing, shaped to how you actually work. You own it, it runs on nothing, and there is no renewal.
Pull up your card statement and read the software line items out loud. There is probably one you forgot you were paying for. There is one you use twice a month and renew twelve times a year because canceling is a support ticket. And there is one that would genuinely do what you need if somebody sat down for an afternoon and learned it, and nobody has, so it sits there billing.
None of that is anybody being dishonest. It is how the model works. Software is built to own a problem, because owning it is what recurs. Solving it outright would end the relationship.
There is also a quieter cost. Every one of those tools is another company holding your data, another login a departing employee still has, another vendor whose breach becomes your Tuesday.
Meanwhile the actual repetitive thing you do every week is still being done by hand.
You should not have to rent a workaround forever because nobody built the thing that fits.
I did not set out to sell Chrome extensions. I built one because I could not find a tool that did what I needed and I was not willing to stack three subscriptions to approximate it.
One click opens my client list, the meetings I have had with each of them pulled in automatically, my notes and due dates, and a timer I hit to track hours. Invoices pull straight from those hours and go out to my billing system in one button. Under that: my contacts, their email history, and a follow-up queue that hands me a manageable number of people each day instead of all of them at once. My automation scenarios report their status in there too, so I can see what broke without going looking for it.
It replaced Toggl Track outright, and it does four or five things Toggl never did.
The whole thing would take about thirty hours to rebuild from scratch today. The client and time tracking piece alone, the part I use every working hour, is about ten of those.
That is the same kind of thing I build for a client. Not a template, not a white label product with your logo on it. A tool shaped like your actual workflow.
I will also tell you when the answer is no. Sometimes the honest answer is that a thirty dollar a month tool already does this well and you should just buy it. I would rather say that than sell you a build.
To be precise about the security piece: this is a smaller attack surface, not a nonexistent one. Your data still lives in a Google account, and the machines it runs on still matter. What changes is that the surface is yours instead of shared, and the list of people who can reach it is short enough to say out loud.
The client and time tracker I run my own business out of. Click around. It is the real interface, not a screenshot.
| Tier | Price | Replaces | Pays for itself at |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small | $1,600 | One subscription, or does something no subscription does | About $160 a month replaced |
| Medium | $2,400 | Two subscriptions | About $240 a month replaced |
| Large | $3,600 | Three subscriptions | About $360 a month replaced |
Ten months. That is the math on all three tiers. If this extension retires one tool you pay $160 a month for, you are even in ten months and it is free after that. Same story if it retires three tools at $120 each.
The bottom tier also covers the case where there is nothing to cancel, because no product does this. That is often the most valuable build, since the work is currently being done by a person instead of by a tool.
If your numbers do not land near those, say so and we will do the actual arithmetic on your stack. I would rather run it honestly on the call than have you run it later and feel misled.
Not a spec. Share your screen and do the task the way you normally do it. Most of the time I can tell inside ten minutes whether this is an extension, a Make scenario, or something you should just go buy.
Six to eight hours for most builds. You are picking a tier, not paying a clock.
Add the folder, install it, done. If it is a team, everybody installs from the same shared folder and updates reach all of them.
No. The extension lives in a Dropbox folder I share with you. You add it to your Dropbox and install it in Chrome from that folder. When I make a change it syncs to you automatically. For a larger group I can put it on the Chrome Web Store as a private listing instead, so people install it the normal way without anybody setting up folders.
Into a Google Sheet you own, or a Firebase project you own. Access to a Sheet is controlled the way you already control Sheets, by who it is shared with. Where the data is sensitive I add a sign-in to the extension itself, so somebody needs both the extension login and access to the Sheet before they see anything.
It depends entirely on what the extension does. Some only need local storage in your browser. Some need to read one specific site. Some talk to an API. I will walk you through the exact list for your build before you install it, and Chrome will show it to you any time you want to check.
I fix it, and I bill you for the repair. I do not build a maintenance fee into the price, because for a tool two or three people use, you would spend more across eleven quiet months than on the one repair. If yours is going on the Chrome Web Store for hundreds of users, that is a different conversation and we would structure it differently.
For a small team, in the ways that matter, yes, and I would rather be specific than wave at it. There is no public login page for your account, so there is nothing sitting on the internet to be attacked. Your records are not in a multi-tenant system that is a target for reasons that have nothing to do with you. Access is your Google Sheet sharing list, which is short and which you already know how to manage. When somebody leaves, you revoke their Google access the way you do for everything else and they are out. What it is not is a guarantee. The extension runs on your team's machines, so those machines still count.
Send them over. Changes are billed as work. There is no version of this where you have to keep paying in order to keep using what you already have.
Any developer who works in JavaScript. It is a standard Chrome extension in a folder you own, not a platform account with your data locked inside it.
Pick a time, share your screen, and walk me through the thing you do every week. Ten minutes usually settles it. If an extension is the answer I will tell you which tier and roughly how long. If you would be better off buying something for thirty dollars a month, I will tell you that too, and it costs you nothing to find out.
No charge for the call.
