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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3211 - TBT: Built in a Weekend, Used by Thousands

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Throwback Thursday segment, hear how a side project built over a single weekend turned into a surprisingly steady income stream, all thanks to a clunky but useful Chrome extension with 5,000 loyal users.

Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.

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0:00.0

You know that customer reviews can have an enormous impact on your business. And you probably know this as a customer as well. When you go shopping for something, don't you look at the reviews? You might even filter them by star rating. You might see what people like, what they don't like. So if you want to have good reviews, if you want to have great reviews, it really helps to automate your process. And that's something our longtime partner, ShipStation, can help with.

0:21.5

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0:22.6

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0:26.7

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0:27.7

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0:31.8

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0:35.8

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0:36.8

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0:39.4

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0:46.0

Lemonada.

0:50.6

Built in a weekend used by thousands. That's what we're going to title today's

0:59.4

Throwback Thursday episode. And maybe by way of introduction, I could say sometimes it pays to

1:04.8

build something that is just barely good enough. Doesn't have to be perfect or amazing.

1:09.9

This story comes from a developer in

1:11.6

Seattle, Washington, who had an itch to scratch. He wanted to better, or he wanted a better way

1:16.8

to highlight and save notes from online articles. There were a number of tools out there, but

1:21.9

he didn't like them. For whatever reason, they didn't have the features he wanted, or they were

1:25.5

expensive, or just not quite right. So he built his own Chrome extension. And if you're not familiar at Chrome extension,

1:33.2

is like a little tool you can add to your browser that can do different things. There are tools to

1:38.4

help you find coupons. There are tools to help you schedule. And in this case, Brian built this

1:43.9

tool to help save online articles or

1:46.3

quotes and such. And it wasn't elegant. It wasn't pretty, but it worked. And it saved people time.

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