Hey there ๐
I'm Romain Simon, founder of appwatch.
I wanted an easy way to find and monitor Chrome Extensions, so here it is :
https://appwatch.co/best-chrome-extensions๐จโ๐ป๐ฉโ๐ป Who is appwatch for?
- Chrome Extensions Builders that want to monitor competitors growth
- Investors that want to invest in or acquire small but fast-growing Chrome Extensions
- You? Tell me your use case ๐
๐ณ๏ธ Some features ideas I might add:
- Advanced search filters (ex: new addons growing more than x% with 4+ rating)
- List other apps marketplaces. Do the same for Shopify apps, JIRA, Salesforce, App Store...
- Watchlists (useful to monitor competitors for example)
- List the fastest growing Chrome extensions
- Track keywords rank on Chrome Webstore
Please share your feedback and ideas in comments ๐
What features should I build next?
Great idea! I worked on a few Chrome Extensions in the past and it's crazy that the developer experience and ecosystem is so poor. The analytics part in particular is terrible so it's pretty cool to see a cool project like that. Would have been super helpful to monitor competition.
@zmiro Thanks for the feedback Julien!
What would you like to see when monitoring competitors?
A chart with evolution of numbers of users, reviews, etc ?
I also thought about tracking rank on Chrome Webstore for specific keywords
@romainsimon Yeah exactly I think trends would be super useful to see how different competitors evolve. Some other ideas I had in the past:
- A way to see a summary of the user reviews, for instance the main benefits people see in a competitor or the main issues they have with it.
- A way to see how different extensions rank on different keywords on the store (I'm not sure that's possible).
- A way to get notified when the listing of a competitor changes and to highlight what they've changed.
There's probably more but that's kind of what's top of mind for me!
Very cool! As a fellow chrome extension developer, this could be really handy for looking for partners, and even keeping an eye on competitors. Well done! Thanks for building this!
Melies