The 80/20 rule: how I hacked together a desktop app experience as a Chrome extension in 2 hours

I've always tried to follow the 80/20 rule in my startup journey - build 80% of the work in 20% of the time. It is the best thing to do for any early-stage startup without a lot of resources.

This time, our team took this concept to the extreme and got 80% of the way there while reducing engineering time from 2 months to 2 hours (~0.14%). We built a desktop experience for our users as a Chrome extension, without writing a single line of native app code.

I wrote this post on our mentality, what led us to the solution, and how we implemented it (you can probably do the same if you have a Chrome extension). Hope you'll enjoy it!