Claude in Chrome Went GA and I Stopped Babysitting the Tab — Where Background Notifications and Handoff Actually Help
Claude in Chrome's general availability adds background notifications, draft handoff, and better failover. As someone who hands browser work to it daily in solo development, here's what to notify on, what to leave running, and the settings I actually changed.
Claude Code vs. Claude in Chrome: Where I Draw the Line in Daily Ops
Running apps solo means constantly hopping between an editor and a browser, and that hopping quietly drains your focus. Here is how I split work between Claude Code and Claude in Chrome over a month, plus the rule I use when a task straddles both.
A Month of Reading App Store Connect Sales and Trends Weekly with Claude in Chrome
Notes from one month of switching App Store Connect Sales and Trends from a monthly glance to a weekly review, with Claude in Chrome walking the dashboards and four apps worth of numbers showing me what I had been missing.
Three Weeks of Letting Claude in Chrome Tune My AdMob Mediation Priorities
I let Claude in Chrome handle the reordering of AdMob mediation priorities for three weeks. Here is how I set the threshold, the three prompt changes that actually mattered, the numbers, and the parts I deliberately kept under human control.
Folding AdMob and Crashlytics into One Morning Check via Cowork Scheduled Tasks — Two-Week Notes
I had been checking AdMob fill rates and Crashlytics surges in two separate dashboards each morning. I folded them into a single Cowork scheduled task. Here are my two-week notes, with the numbers and the friction I ran into.
Three Weeks of Letting Claude in Chrome Run My Android Vitals Weekly Review
I moved my Monday-morning Android Vitals review for a portfolio of wallpaper and relaxation apps over to Claude in Chrome three weeks ago. Notes on what I delegated, what I kept for myself, and how the rhythm has settled in for an indie developer in year twelve.
Catching AdMob Fill-Rate Drops in the Morning with Claude in Chrome — Two-Week Notes
I kept noticing fill-rate drops only by late afternoon. So I switched to having Claude in Chrome read the AdMob report each morning. Here are my two-week notes, with the numbers and the friction I ran into.
One month of weekly AppLovin MAX A/B test reviews with Claude in Chrome
Waterfall A versus B—how do you compare them every week without burning out? Here are my notes from running AppLovin MAX A/B tests across four indie apps with Claude in Chrome handling the weekly roll-up.
Ten Mornings of Letting Claude in Chrome Walk My Search Console Rounds
For ten days I handed a slice of my morning Google Search Console rounds across six properties to Claude in Chrome. Here is what changed in my mornings, written from the perspective of an indie developer running 50M+ download wallpaper apps.
Three Weeks of Tuning AdMob Floor Prices with Claude in Chrome
Notes from three weeks of small daily floor-price adjustments across four iOS apps, with Claude in Chrome doing the dashboard rounds and me keeping the judgment calls.
Two Weeks of Reviewing Crashlytics Weekly with Claude in Chrome
I let Claude in Chrome walk through Firebase Crashlytics dashboards once a week instead of checking them every morning. Notes from two weeks of running this loose division of labor as an indie developer behind 50M+ downloads.
Claude in Chrome Not Working? A Practical Troubleshooting Guide
Buttons that do nothing, pages that never load, tasks that report success but change nothing. Symptom-by-symptom fixes, plus the 42-run log where adding waits and verification steps moved completion from 62% to 95%.