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I launched a Chrome extension

I was in a predicament where I was responsible for making and printing out a poster for an event, but I had made the mistake of building my design as a webpage. I quickly realized that webpages do not print out the way they look on your screen. So, I then checked the Chrome web store, assuming that there must be an extension that will screenshot a full webpage for me. I quickly discovered that all the extensions I tried failed to properly stitch the various sections of the page together. So, as a foolhardy software developer, I decided to keep marching forward and wrote my own Chrome extension to screenshot a full webpage. "Full Page Screenshot" was already taken, so I named it "Full Page Screen Capture" (very creative, right?)

I posted the initial code on github, wrote a blog post here: https://mrcoles.com/full-page-screen-capture-chrome-extension/ and so began the story of Full Page Screen Capture 🤓

, Founder of Icon for GoFullPage - Full Page Screen Capture
GoFullPage - Full Page Screen Capture
on October 14, 2019
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    Super inspiring to see fellow builders ship browser tools! Ours focuses on real-time website carbon footprint tracking. Curious – how did you approach initial user onboarding and getting feedback?

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    Well done on this extension Cole, this is another great example of the "scratch your own back" problem identification method. It brings tears of joy to see a simple solution to a very painful problem making a pretty good MRR.

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