Chrome extension, 2025 / Flagship
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A time tracker with 300+ installs that makes no network requests, so your browsing history stays on your machine.
- Role
- Solo developer
- Type
- Chrome extension, 2025
- Status
- Live
- Problem
Browser time trackers ask you to hand over your full browsing history, usually to a server you cannot inspect. That is a steep price for a bar chart.
- What I built
The extension makes no network requests at all. State lives in chrome.storage.sync so it follows you between devices without a backend, the idle API stops the clock when you step away so the totals stay honest, and per-site budgets are enforced as a hard block rather than a dismissible nudge.
- Result
Published on the Chrome Web Store, with 300+ installs. The zero-request claim is the kind you can check yourself in the network panel.
- Stack
JavaScript, Chrome APIs, Storage Sync