Katch the Ick - Recent Follows Extension
Chrome extension that catches recent follows on Instagram
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Katch the Ick is a recent follows tracker for Instagram that lives in your browser. Open any public profile, take a snapshot, and from then on every new follow and new follower lands at the top with a timestamp, newest first. It auto-checks in the background and tracks as many profiles as you want. It runs on your own instagram.com session, so your password never touches us. Free preview, then a one-time $5 unlock. No subscription.
PH · launched Oct 20, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 22%) · 0 views
Niche: social media data extraction tools · 84 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▼ -50% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Chrome Extensions
- Social Media
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Could you build this?
Partial The extension UI, snapshots, timestamps, and background checks are easy to vibe-code. Reliably reading Instagram follower data is the hard piece, since it requires login, changes often, and is actively blocked, so the extension would be brittle and against platform terms.
What it would actually take: The real version needs a headless or in-page scraping layer that tracks Instagram's changing DOM and private API responses, plus session handling and rate-limit evasion. Keeping it working depends on ongoing maintenance against Instagram's anti-bot defenses and ToS enforcement.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 274 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #48 of 275 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 343 days after the earliest competitor.
- Klupt - Recent Follows Tracker · ph · 2026-10-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- Stalkie · ph · 2026-10-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Lurke · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Instoryview · ph · 2026-09-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Top Follow APK · ph · 2026-11-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- ProfileUnveil · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Unfollowers Tracker · ph · 2026-10-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- KimGitti · ph · 2026-11-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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