Skip to content

A Chrome extension that transforms selected web content into beautiful, shareable cards with metadata and QR codes. ✨

License

Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings

arronyounging/clipshare

Repository files navigation

ClipShare

A Chrome extension that transforms selected web content into beautiful, shareable cards with metadata and QR codes. ✨

ClipShare Demo

Background

As a product manager with no prior development experience, I wanted to solve a real problem I encountered daily - sharing web content in a more elegant way. Using Cursor and spending less than an hour, I built my first Chrome extension. This project represents my journey from PM to developer.

Features

  • One-click selection of web content
  • Automatic generation of sharing cards with:
    • Original website metadata
    • Source URL QR code
    • Selected content display
    • Clean, modern design
  • Easy sharing options

Technical Implementation

Built using:

  • Chrome Extension APIs
  • HTML/CSS/JavaScript
  • QR Code generation library
  • Web scraping for metadata

Key functionalities:

  1. Content selection and capture
  2. Metadata extraction
  3. QR code generation
  4. Card template rendering
  5. Sharing interface

Installation

  1. Download source code
  2. Navigate to chrome://extensions/
  3. Enable Developer Mode
  4. Click "Load unpacked"
  5. Select the project directory

Development Journey

This project demonstrated that with modern AI coding tools like Cursor, product managers can bring their ideas to life without extensive coding background. The key was breaking down the product into clear technical requirements and leveraging existing APIs and libraries effectively.

License

MIT License

About

A Chrome extension that transforms selected web content into beautiful, shareable cards with metadata and QR codes. ✨

Topics

Resources

License

Stars

Watchers

Forks

Packages

No packages published