I Shipped My First Indie Product. Here Is What Actually Happened.

37 days. A Chrome extension with an AI reading assistant. Full cycle: idea, build, release, marketing, exit. My first indie project under the Indie Labs brand. Result: 11 installs, 0 active users, 0 revenue. Now open-source and self-hosted. This is not a success story. But it is an honest one. What I built R-Searcher is a Chrome extension that helps you read faster without leaving the page. Open an article, click Read, get three tabs back: Essence (3 to 5 sentences on whether the article is wort