PEAK POSITIVITY CHROME EXTENSION - OPENING NEW TABS WITH AN AFFIRMATION

I wanted to try my hand at creating a Google Chrome extension. Knowing some other languages, I figured I could put at least some simple pieces together (with the help of ChatGPT, of course).

I prompted ChatGPT to explain how a Chrome extension works to me. Then, I thought about extensions that wouldn’t require any permissions from the user or the browser.

The idea of motivational quotes came to me, so I searched out what extensions existed already.

They weren’t great. So, I smelled opportunity.

A few iterations and lots of conversations with my favorite AI and this extension was born.

Tech Stack

• JavaScript
• ChatGPT
• GitHub

Ah, yes, one more thing.

Where to get all these motivational quotes from?

Well, I could scrape them from a quote website, or get ChatGPT to generate them, but then I’d still need to put them all together, organize them, and host them somewhere.

I tried to get ChatGPT to generate a list, but the results were lackluster. Even in a list of 50, there were repeats.

I found a repository on GitHub filled with 5,000 motivational quotes and their authors. A simple tweak in my JavaScript file and I was set to use this repository.

I used ChatGPT to create an icon, Canva to create some design assets, and took some screenshots to populate the listing in the Google Chrome Web Store.

…and, Done. Here’s a link to the Chrome Web Store listing:

PeakPositivity motivational quotes google chrome web store listing