Re:Show HN: Create Chrome Extensions for internal use
by mritchie712 on Friday January 29, 2021 @08:14AM
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We made this extension recently. It lets you query data in any `<table>` in any open Chrome tab. Pretty nuts what you can build with extensions vs. a standard web app. Good luck!
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sqanything/naejbcf...
Re:Show HN: Create Chrome Extensions for internal use
by kkevv on Friday January 29, 2021 @02:16PM
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Woah that's amazing! I thought the name SeekWell was familiar, I think we used your SQL -> GSheets integration before!
Re:Show HN: Create Chrome Extensions for internal use
by mritchie712 on Friday January 29, 2021 @02:35PM
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Cool, curious, what company were you at?
Good luck with the new thing!
Re:Show HN: Create Chrome Extensions for internal use
by Glench on Friday January 29, 2021 @02:40PM
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awesome! Have you considered taking payments? I recently made a browser extension payment system that you don't even need to run your own server to use: https://extensionpay.com/
Re:Show HN: Create Chrome Extensions for internal use
by kkevv on Saturday January 30, 2021 @01:09PM
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This is cool, extremely relevant now that Google removed payments for extensions!
We are free during the developer preview/beta and plan to have a really generous hobby tier. We are rolling our own Stripe integration down the road for enterprise users!
Re:Show HN: Create Chrome Extensions for internal use
by kkevv on Friday January 29, 2021 @02:22PM
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Ohh, We haven't tried WebSQL yet with our builder, but from a quick Google search it seems possible!
Another route is to use something like http://alasql.org/ to cache data in localstorage so you can query it instantly. Would a search UX be better, or a text box to directly write SQL over your data?
Re:Show HN: Create Chrome Extensions for internal use
by mritchie712 on Friday January 29, 2021 @02:34PM
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Yeah, we use alasql in the app I linked to below. It's amazing! Also supports querying CSV's, Excel, Sheets, etc. Pretty amazing package.
One category of apps I think would be interesting is caching SaaS data locally to make for fast search. e.g. Intercom is painfully slow, I want an extension that caches recent Intercom data for fast search and messaging.