Here's my timeline of building and releasing a Chrome extension over the last two weeks, from idea to release. For those interested how this works, here's how I did it.
There's no independent form builder that natively stores data in Google Sheets. Google Forms does but it can't be customized and it forces you to be on the Google Platform. So I decided that there was probably a market for a form builder extension that used Sheets as the default backend.
After three days of coding, I have 90% of the experience running inside a functional Chrome app.
Key tools here:
Cue the false optimism:
This is the point where I think "Great, I'm done!" and then I open up the Developer Console and realize that I need to build a bunch of marketing assets before I can even submit the app for approval.
Time to pivot to market
Key tools:
And by the end of the day on Oct 20th
I checked the dashboard and apparently Google approved the extension without sending me a notification. Maybe I just missed it?
Anyway, now I've released my first extension. It took about two week of intensive development and design. I'm hopeful that it finds an audience.
I'd love to hear what you think. Check it out here:
Nice work, very effective.
Is there any more users?
Do you have any React Tailwind boilerplate to recommend ?
I also need to save datas to external databases and use login features.