<p>My product is a Chrome extension that automates LinkedIn outreach - connection requests, follow-ups, and engagement - with AI-generated personalization handling message drafting, profile summarization, and talking points. It runs entirely from the user's own authenticated browser session rather than a remote server, keeping it outside the category of tools LinkedIn's User Agreement explicitly bans (third-party scrapers and cloud-based automation). That's the reason my extension doesn't carry the account-ban risk that's gotten several competitors restricted this year.</p><p>I've been running and refining it - sharpening the product, the safety positioning, and the growth playbook it's on today.</p><p><b>Key highlights:</b></p><ul> <li>Annual revenue (TTM, Stripe-verified): ~$3,300</li> <li>Annual profit (TTM): ~$2,555 (net margin ~77%)</li> <li>Current run-rate ARR: ~$2,700 (current MRR ~$228)</li> <li>Churn rate: 7% monthly</li> <li>LTV: ~$142 per customer</li> <li>CAC: effectively $0 - customer base built almost entirely organically; paid acquisition untested (a small $100 Google test just launched)</li> <li>Gross margin: ~95% (AWS hosting is free; light opex is Workspace + domain + AI API</li> <li>Email list: 11,955 subscribers - a warm, largely untouched audience well beyond the active subscriber base.</li> </ul> <p><b>Team</b></p><p>Just two people. I handle sales, marketing, and revenue day-to-day. One AI/software engineer supports the technical side (pro bono). No other staff, no standing contractors - a lean cost base a new owner inherits, not a team they have to fund.</p><p><b>Tech Stack</b></p><ul> <li>Extension: Plain JavaScript with jQuery, built on Manifest V3 (Chrome's current standard, no forced rewrite ahead)</li> <li>AI: Google Gemini API, called server-side - key and processing never touch the customer's browser</li> <li>Backend: Three independent systems - billing (Stripe), AI service (Gemini), marketing site/blog</li> <li>Hosting: AWS, effectively no-cost</li> <li>Email/CRM: Mailchimp</li> <li>Code: Private GitHub repo, fully owned - clean transfer, only one past engineer ever had commit access (fully revoked)</li> <li>Data architecture: all sensitive LinkedIn data stays on the customer's device; the server only ever touches billing info</li> </ul> <p><b>Marketing and growth</b></p><p>The entire customer base to date - a 12k-strong email list — was built with essentially no paid acquisition spend. That's the real growth story: proven organic pull, with the growth playbook still unwritten.</p><p><b>Revenue and profit</b></p><ul> <li>23 active paying subscriptions, gross MRR ≈ $228/month</li> <li>TTM revenue: ~$3,300, TTM net income ~$2,555 (~77% margin)</li> <li>Monthly churn: 7%</li> <li>LTV: ~$142</li> <li>Plan mix: Lite ~48% of MRR, Pro ~52%; ~69% monthly billing, ~31% annual</li> <li>Revenue has held roughly flat over the trailing year rather than growing - the opportunity is a large dormant base (11,955-person list) that current revenue doesn't reflect at all</li> </ul> <p><b>Return on investment</b></p><p>Payback period depends on final asking price. The extension's positioning to date has targeted the $20k–100k range. At the lower end, TTM net income (~$2,555) implies a payback period of roughly 8 years on current numbers alone - the honest baseline. The real upside case rests on two untapped, already-built levers: reactivating the email list and standing up paid acquisition, neither of which has been meaningfully tested yet.</p><p><b>Startup assets</b></p><ul> <li>Live Chrome Web Store listing with existing install base and reviews</li> <li>Email list: 11,955 subscribers (Mailchimp)</li> <li>2,828 lifetime paying customers, most with historical/permanent access - a warm base to re-engage</li> <li>Private GitHub repo, fully owned, clean IP</li> <li>Marketing site with blog and pricing page</li> <li>Completed 31-second product video ad, ready for paid deployment</li> <li>Domain, low-cost biennial renewal</li> </ul> <p><b>Risks</b></p><ul> <li>Revenue is flat, not growing - this is a maintained asset, not one under active expansion; a buyer needs a deliberate plan to activate the list and test paid channels. Mitigation: both levers are proven-possible (large existing audience), just unexploited.</li> <li>Single-operator dependency - sales/marketing has run through one person. Mitigation: processes and templates are documented and transferable.</li> </ul> <p><b>Summary</b></p><p>My extension is a profitable, near-zero-overhead SaaS asset with a real technical moat - browser-based architecture that sidesteps the account-ban risk plaguing its entire competitor set - a 12,000-person email list that current revenue barely touches. This is a business that's proven it can acquire and retain customers organically for five years running, with essentially no paid growth effort behind it. For a buyer who wants a working, differentiated product with real untapped upside rather than a fixer-upper, the gap between what it earns today and what its audience could support is the opportunity.</p><p>✅ $3,300 TTM revenue</p><p>✅ 23 customers</p><p>✅ Business model: Freemium</p><p>✅ Built with JavaScript, AWS, Stripe</p>