I just launched my second Chrome extension in 8 weeks. Here's what building product two taught me.

Building your second product is completely different from building your first. With Prompt Helix I was learning everything simultaneously — manifest V3, content scripts, service workers, multi-provider API routing, Chrome Store submission, privacy policies, Stripe integration. Every day was a new rabbit hole. With FocusForge I knew the terrain. The architecture decisions came faster. The Chrome Store submission process was familiar. The BYOK model was already proven. I could focus on the product