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by Glench 6y ago
This is huge. An alternative to proof of work using extra hard drive space instead of CPU. And anyone with hard drive space can mine/farm! No special hardware needed. Seems possible that this will be a basis for other crypto projects t
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by Glench 6y ago
Heh, it is totally possible to make money off extensions. You just need to provide value. Here are some examples: - $100k with a browser extension: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/css-scan-made-over-100k-d6... - $38
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by Glench 6y ago
I'll do you one better and connect you with one of my friends who is actually an experienced educator/administrator. Send me an email: hello at glench.com.
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by Glench 6y ago
Yep! My customers so far have been really happy. :) To compare to other services: the Chrome Web Store fee was 5%, Gumroad's fee is 5% + the Stripe fee, and my main competitor is charging 6.5% + stripe fee. Pretty standard. Why do you
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by Glench 6y ago
whoa this is REALLY interesting! I wonder if you could try some pilot programs with places like https://www.recurse.com/ or other alternative educational institutions.
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by Glench 6y ago
Mine is a service to take payments inside browser extensions without needing to run your own server backend! https://extensionpay.com :D I made it so I could use it in my own extensions. Definitely lowers the barrier to making p
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by Glench 6y ago
> 2. How much can one reasonably expect to earn per user per month or year in your experience? (My extension is by no means mission critical but it solves a (simple) problem rather elegantly IMHO). There's no way to tell for sure! I
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by Glench 6y ago
The author is linking to one of their own projects as if it wasn't theirs :/ And as the creator of a competing service that allows browser extension makers to take payments in their extensions without needing a backend server ( ht
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by Glench 6y ago
I love this service. Been using it for a long time and have switched all my newsletters to it. Now I get so many fewer emails. As the creators of Hey figured out, it's wonderful to have a separate feed of newsletters since they're
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by Glench 6y ago
Worth mentioning the cryptocurrency that Bram Cohen (inventor of bittorrent) is creating that is explicitly designed to be low-energy usage and more distributed: https://www.chia.net/ It uses "Proof of Space" (pro
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by Glench 6y ago
Definitely not an expert on this but the creators say that one thing that is helpful is that hard drive space is already massively over-provisioned which is helpful — individuals as well as institutions with space will be able to make use o
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by Glench 6y ago
Here to mention Chia ( https://www.chia.net/ ) which is made by the creator of bittorrent Bram Cohen and is launching its mainnet soon! Uses proof of space instead of proof of work or proof of stake to make it use very little
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by Glench 6y ago
Great! I'm working on adding subscriptions now. And thanks for the guild link!
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by Glench 6y ago
Let us know when firefox support is out!
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by Glench 6y ago
Hey that's awesome! If you ever think about charging or adding paid features, check out my extension payment service https://extensionpay.com It's nice because it's cross-browser and you don't need to run you
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by Glench 6y ago
Yeah, Google's handling of extension payments was terrible and sad. On the flip side, I made a replacement https://extensionpay.com that should do a lot better job — I made it for my own extensions and it works cross-browse
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by Glench 6y ago
> How does this compare to using Stripe out of the box? Basically you don't need to run your own server / database / custom Stripe integration code / user management system / custom extension integration, which i
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by Glench 6y ago
Neat! Have you considered taking payments for the service? Seems like it could be really valuable.
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by Glench 6y ago
Have you considered charging for your extension? I just made https://extensionpay.com which makes it easy to add payments in your extension without needing to run your own server.
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by Glench 6y ago
Nicely done! If you ever want to think about charging for the extension, take a look at https://extensionpay.com
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by Glench 6y ago
I'm making https://extensionpay.com to make it super easy to take payments in browser extensions. I care if it succeeds, but I don't feel super attached to the success. Maybe another way of saying it is that my bar is
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by Glench 6y ago
Hey this is awesome! I see you're still developing the extension but if you want an easy way to take payments I made https://extensionpay.com
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by Glench 6y ago
Glad you like it!
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by Glench 6y ago
awesome! Have you considered taking payments? I recently made a browser extension payment system that you don't even need to run your own server to use: https://extensionpay.com/
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by Glench 6y ago
Hey! You should look at my thing! The techniques in it have nothing to do with JavaScript and could easily be done in a smalltalk or any language :)
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by Glench 6y ago
Couldn't agree more. I think we should redesign programming so that it is primarily a method of communicating between humans. If that becomes the focus, we can use the best methods we have of communicating words, graphics, and interact
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by Glench 6y ago
> Over 95% of Chrome extensions are completely free, as in no form of payment whatsoever. This makes extensions one of the worst of all software markets. Users just expect extensions to be free. Most Chrome extensions are low quality, to
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by Glench 6y ago
Not a really fair reply. I was pointing out that there's nothing inherently hard about monetizing extensions and you definitely don't have to "go down some shady rabbithole" to do it. The services to charge for extension
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by Glench 6y ago
There are plenty of quality paid extensions: * Closet Tools makes $38k/month: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/187-jordan-oconnor-of-c... * CSS Scan made over $100k: https://www.indiehackers.com&#x2
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by Glench 6y ago
Although Google is actually moving toward the standard in Manifest v3: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/intro/mv3-o... (mostly with a Promise-based API)

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