💡 SaaS Idea: Chrome Extension Store Researcher

Web app that lets product/marketing teams analyze the Chrome Web Store at scale: cluster extensions by niche, extract and summarize reviews for pain points/feature requests, track rating trends, downloads, and competitor changes. Exports opportunity briefs and ICP insights.

Platform: web

Why it's a good idea?

1. Problem & Audience

Chrome Web-Store data is notoriously limited (no public API for downloads, reviews difficult to scrape, no way to track competitors). Indie devs and SaaS product-marketing teams keep asking for:

  • keyword research ("what to name my extension, tags to use?")
  • SEO/ranking tracking ("did our install rank drop?")
  • review mining ("what are users complaining about in our niche?")
  • market sizing/opportunity discovery ("which niches have many installs but few good products?")

Typical paying persona = extension publisher (solo → micro-SaaS) or growth/PMM inside larger SaaS that has a Chrome add-on (Notion, Linear, HubSpot …).

Chrome-Stats blog estimates ±30 000 publishers, of which ~9 000 have >1 000 weekly users. If even 5 % pay $29–$99/mo → TAM ≈ $15-50 M/yr – small but real indie-SaaS scale.

2. Existing solutions / competitors

Product Focus Paid? Gaps your idea covers
Chrome-Stats.com Historical stats, API, basic review export Yes ($15-$99) No clustering / AI brief, limited competitor alerts
ExtensionRanker.com Listing SEO & keyword research Yes ($9-$4...
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