How everything started

My girlfriend was teaching some classes at the University and since everything recently moved online (check 2020 news), she was thinking about how should she do the attendance now, over G Meet.

A few options came up:
a) grab a piece of paper and do name-calling
b) take screenshots of the participants' tab

I realized that none of the options were really helpful as the meeting would be interrupted or more time would be spent analyzing the screenshots.

So over the weekend a quickly built a prototype of a Chrome browser extension that would take attendance with a press of a button.

This extension is now called Google Meet Attendance List:
👉 https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/appcnhiefcidclcdjeahgklghghihfok