I built a Chrome extension so Claude can close my 300 tabs
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HN · launched Jul 29, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: browser productivity extensions · 205 launches, 15 in the last 7 days ▼ -6% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 205 launches in browser productivity extensions →
Could you build this?
Yes This is a basic Manifest V3 Chrome extension that calls `chrome.tabs.query`, sends metadata (titles/URLs) to the Claude API, and executes `chrome.tabs.remove` based on the LLM's classification.
Discussion
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 436 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #406 of 437 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 251 days after the earliest competitor.
- I was drowning in browser tabs, so I built this · hn · 2026-06-19 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- More Shortcuts · ph · 2026-09-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- TabYell · ph · 2026-09-12 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Muchita · hn · 2026-08-16 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Open-Sourced Chrome Extension to Save, Organize and Switch Bookmarks · hn · 2026-09-13 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- I built 184 free browser tools · hn · 2026-06-17 · 89 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- ResumeTabs · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Tab Relief · ph · 2026-11-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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