Prompt Helix v1.0.3 just shipped. PDF support, Gmail, a free demo flow, and result history.

Four months in. 151 total installs. £0 revenue. Still building.

v1.0.3 shipped yesterday and it's the biggest update since launch. Here's what changed and why each decision was made.

PDF support.

The single most requested thing users couldn't do. Open a research paper, a report, an exam paper. click Prompt Helix. get answers. No copying. No pasting. No switching tabs. Text-based PDFs now work fully. Scanned PDFs still can't be read because that requires OCR which is a different problem entirely. But the vast majority of PDFs people actually want to analyse are text-based and those work now.

Gmail and Google Docs support.

Dynamic pages were broken because the extension was grabbing content before it had finished rendering. Gmail would return nothing. Google Docs would return partial content. Fixed with a retry loop that detects known dynamic sites and waits for content to load before running analysis. Both confirmed working.

This matters because Gmail and Docs are where professionals actually live. A tool that works on news articles but breaks on your inbox isn't a daily driver. Now it is.

Free demo flow.

This one came directly from founder feedback on my last post. The drop-off between install and first successful prompt was probably massive because users hit a dead end. no API key, no value, no reason to stay. Now on first open there's a "Try it free" button that runs one proxied demo call through the backend. They see the extension work on whatever page they're already on before being asked for anything. One taste beats any amount of onboarding copy.

Result history.

Every time someone reopened the popup it was blank. No memory of what worked yesterday. Now the last 3 results are stored locally and accessible via a clock icon in the header. Small change, meaningful difference in whether someone reopens the extension tomorrow.

The honest state of things.

60 installs in the last 30 days. 151 total. 1 weekly active user. £0 revenue. The activation mechanics are now in better shape than they've ever been. The demo flow specifically should move the install to active user rate. that was the gap the previous version couldn't close.

FocusForge is at 51 installs. CookieNuke launches this week as product three.
If you've installed Prompt Helix before and it didn't work on a page you needed try v1.0.3. It's a different product.

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