This is the Genius B\*tchwork lane. Most weeks I show you AI doing my own boring work. In this lane, I spotlight something genius that AI did for someone else, then hand you the exact steps to copy it.
I did not build this extension. A guy named Ihor Stefurak did. And what he pulled off in a single working session is the kind of thing that makes you question what "you need to know how to code" actually means.
Here is what happened.
Ihor had an idea for a Chrome extension. A simple AI writing tool that pops up inside any text field in your browser. He is not a developer. He had never built a Chrome extension before. He opened ChatGPT and started asking questions.
About 10 hours later, he had a working product.
He posted it on Twitter. In the first 24 hours, he made $1,000 in preorders. Within weeks, he sold the whole thing on Acquire, an online marketplace where people buy and sell small software products. Business Insider ran his story in April 2023, and he walked through the whole thing.
Now I am going to show you how to do the same kind of build. Not to promise you the same outcome. That outcome came from his marketing and his audience, and that part is a different conversation. But the build? The "go from idea to working extension with no coding background" part? That is something you can actually do.
What building software the old way used to cost you
Before AI coding assistants, turning a software idea into a real product meant hiring someone or spending months learning to code yourself.
A basic Chrome extension might run you $1,500 to $5,000 to outsource, and that assumes you could describe your idea clearly enough for a developer to build the right thing.
So most people with small software ideas just sat on them. The idea lived in a Google Doc. The product never got made.
The barrier was never the idea. It was the first working version.
What you get in this one
By the end of this post, you will have:
The exact prompts to go from idea to working extension code, with no coding knowledge required.
The setup steps to test your extension on your own computer before publishing it anywhere.
What to do when something breaks (and something will break once or twice).
How to write the product listing copy with AI once it works.
The honest list of what AI still cannot do, so you know where you have to show up.
You do not need to know how to code. You need to know how to describe what you want clearly.
Quick and honest note before we start
Ihor's story is real. The numbers come from his Business Insider article. But his result came from more than the code. He had an audience on Twitter. He knew how to write a good launch post. He picked a problem people were already paying to solve in other ways.
ChatGPT can build the extension. It cannot build the distribution. Do not follow these steps and expect $1,000 in preorders the next morning. That is not a promise this tutorial can make.
What it can promise is that you will end up with a working piece of software you built with AI, which is a real thing and more than most people with software ideas ever actually make.
Behind the paywall, you get the full how-to:
The 6 steps in order, from idea to working extension.
All 5 copy-paste prompts, ready to use.
The exact process for loading and testing the extension inside your own Chrome browser.
What to do when ChatGPT gives you broken code (it will, once or twice, and this is normal).
What AI cannot do, so you know exactly where you still have to show up.
A steal-this recap you can save and reuse for any small software idea.
Subscribing unlocks the rest of this exact post right now, not just future ones. If you have had a small software idea sitting in a note somewhere and never known how to start, this is the post that shows you what starting actually looks like.
The full walkthrough is below the paywall.
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