X Feed Muter

Quickly mute users, keywords and phrases from your X feed.

x feed muter

Project Overview

Type: Chrome Extension
Duration: June 25, 2024 - June 28, 2024
Brief Description: This powerful and user-friendly Chrome extension allows you to quickly mute users, keywords, and phrases from your X feed, giving you full control over your social media experience.

What motivated you to start this project?

The X Feed can be overwhelming with irrelevant or unwanted content. I was tired of manually scrolling past or unfollowing users to avoid seeing their posts. I wanted a solution that allowed me to quickly and easily mute specific users, keywords, or phrases from my feed.

Any specific problem you were trying to solve?:

X has a mute system built-in to the web application. But, it requires clicking through multiple levels of menus. I wanted a solution that was quick and easy to use, ideally right in the feed.

Quick Actions: Our extension adds convenient mute buttons next to usernames and trending topics, allowing for instant muting without interrupting your browsing flow.
Privacy-Focused: All muting preferences are stored within X. We don't store or interact with any of your data.
Seamless Integration: Once installed, our muting features blend seamlessly with X's interface, providing a native feel to your customized experience.

Heavily utilizes onMessage and sendMessage for communication between extension layers using webext-bridge.

Target Audience: X Users
Monetization Strategy: Free version with basic features with a premium version with additional features (e.g., inline word muting options, priority support) available for a one-time fee.

Technical Skills: This project was a great opportunity to learn more about building Chrome extensions and working with the WebExtensions API. Communication between extension layers was a challenge, but I learned a lot about using the different utility functions provided by webext-bridge. This project gave me the confidence that I could build and deploy a professional-grade web extension.
Non-Technical Lessons: Actively sharing the progress of this application on X and ProductHunt were benefitial for the product's minor success.
Future Improvements: I got caught up in the "fail fast, fail often" philosophy. I should have spent more time polishing up the UI and UX before launching. Then spent more time on marketing and outreach.

No future enhancements planned at this time. I'm not happy with the current state of X so I'll be focusing on other projects.

Apologies for relying on X for demo-links. All of the progress was shared there.

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