Launching Buddy is a Chrome Extension that automatically messages all of your Product Hunt followers Twitter accounts via Twitter DM

• When updating the backend service worker you have to bump the version or you have to reinstall the add-on locally for the changes to take effect.

Features

This is a basic Chrome Extension that was created to help avid users of Product Hunt to effortlessly take advantage of their following when launching a new product.

• All actions are performed automatically via the UI to mimmic human behavior and avoid spam detection (0 API calls are performed)
• First Name Placeholder i.e. {{FIRST_NAME}} will be replaced by the first name of the user's respective follower's Product Hunt account.
• Rich text formatting for proper spacing for your Twitter DM
• Automatic end to end flow
• Currently only runs in the active Chrome Tab so you can't do anything else while it runs but this can changed easily
• Straightforward process, insert a Twitter DM Message and click the start button, thats it!

Please open up an issue to nudge me to keep the npm packages up-to-date. FYI, it takes time to make different packages with different versions work together nicely.

Installing and Running

Procedures:

1. Check if your Node.js version is >= 18.
2. Clone this repository.
3. Change the package's name, description, and repository fields in package.json.
4. Change the name of your extension on src/manifest.json.
5. Run npm install to install the dependencies.
6. Run npm start
7. Load your extension on Chrome following:
   1. Access chrome://extensions/
   2. Check Developer mode
   3. Click on Load unpacked extension
   4. Select the build folder.
8. Happy hacking.

Structure

All your extension's code must be placed in the src folder.

The repo has a popup, a background service worker, and a content script.

TypeScript

Built with TypeScript!

Potential Future work

• Maybe include LinkedIn messaging from Product Hunt profiles
• Add a Twitter only Follower DM feature
• Modify the extension to run in a non-active Chrome tab

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