FIFI
Surfaces buried high-engagement Reddit comments
FIFI is live and free on the Chrome store.
The itch that started it: on almost any Reddit thread, the top comment is just the safest, most upvoted thing. The part actually worth reading — the real back-and-forth, the buried gem — is usually five replies deep in a branch nobody scrolls to. I kept hunting for it by hand and got tired of it, so I built something that surfaces those buried high-engagement exchanges automatically.
The part I'm most proud of isn't the launch, it's how I built it. As a solo dev I was worried about the project sprawling, so I worked from a spec document I kept updating as I went. Ideas went back and forth constantly — I'd test an approach, it wouldn't feel right, revise the spec, try again. Lots of incremental changes and a lot of testing rather than any big leaps. Slow, but it kept the scope from exploding, which is the thing that usually kills solo projects.
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