What they are
Two Chrome extensions around long-form articles on X. The Exporter turns an article into clean Markdown or PDF. I built it because I wanted articles in Markdown to feed my AI tools, and nothing did it. The Voice Reader sends an article to ElevenLabs and reads it back, highlighting each line as it goes.
What happened
The exporter found five hundred-some users without any marketing. Same lesson as the Gmail tool, smaller scale: fill a real gap on a big platform and the store’s search does the distribution. The voice reader stayed tiny, and I know why: it requires users to paste in their own ElevenLabs API key, which filters out nearly everyone. I don’t mind. I built it for me, and I use it.
What I learned
“Bring your own API key” is honest engineering and terrible onboarding. If I ever wanted the voice reader to grow, the key management would be the product.