How We Created A Chrome Extension & Hit The Top Of The App Store

July 5th, 2022

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Justin

Founder, RatePunk

$50K

revenue/mo

Founders

Employees

RatePunk

ratepunk.com

from Vilnius, Lithuania

started February 2022

$50,000

revenue/mo

Founders

Employees

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Hello! Who are you, and what business did you start?

Hi, startuppers! My name is Justinas Albertynas - I’m one of the founders of our travel-tech startup and my beloved product, a browser extension named RatePunk. It’s a tool that compares hotel prices on different booking websites live & for free. It’s available to install on 5 main browsers: Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera & Edge, and we connected the 9 biggest OTAs into one system. It shows the cheapest option in seconds, helping the user not to waste more than necessary and better splash it on the fun during vacation, not on accommodation.

Although ** ** the product brings the most value to frequent travelers (the more often you search for accommodation - the more often you find savings), even people who go on a vacation once per year find incredible deals, constantly motivating us to widen our target audience.

The beginning was unexpectedly challenging for our team - we barely collected the first 500 users in almost half a year, but… we hit more than 3000 less than a few weeks after that & got into the TOPS of Apple Store in the US, the UK, and in our home country - Lithuania. Statistics show that only around 13% of browser extensions...

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