Over the years, I have received many proposals to monetize this extension so I think I’ll just start posting them here for fun (but not for profit). The main reason I continue to maintain this extension is because I can hardly trust others to not fall for one of these offers. I’m fortunate to have a job that pays well enough to allow me to keep my moral compass and ignore all of these propositions. I realize that not everyone has the same financial security so hopefully this thread would shed some light on what kind of pressure is put on extension developers.

09/28/2015

Hope this message finds you well.

My name is redacted and I’m a Strategic Partnerships Manager at redacted – monetization platform for browser extensions.

I am contacting you since I came across the extension ‘Hover Zoom+’ at Chrome Store; I consider your product can help you bring profit by means of collaborating together.

I would like to suggest a potential partnership between our companies that will significantly increase your revenues.

Are you interested in discussing our offer in more details?

Hope for positive feedback and ongoing cooperation.

06/17/2015

Please forgive my persistence, I’m following up to an email I sent to you last week in regards to your Chrome browser extension. I am still interested in speaking with you about monetizing your anonymous user data.

There are a couple things I want to insure you know.

Monetizing anonymous user data is happening on almost every website we visit – you may be leaving alot of money on the table by not monetizing your anonymous user data. Try dowloading Ghostry to see for yourself.
Affiliate commissions may pay you as much as 20% but is not always scaleable.
Chrome will deactive extenions that violate their ‘single purpose’ policy by working with ad injection companies – redacted does not, will not inject ads, but uses anonymous user data to provide more relevant advertising through NAI and IAB approved ad delivery networks.
Top advertisers across all verticals are very interested in targeting high quality intent data derived from browser extensions.

Again, if your data is strong, it has the potential to produce a significant new revenue stream for you and your business. Here is a link to our self-serve Developer Dashboard: redacted

I’d be happy to provide additional information should you have any questions.

04/26/2016

My name is redacted, I’m a co-founder and CEO of redacted – a Market intelligence service for ecommerce. (like similarweb, only for ecommerce).

We are revolutionizing the way ecommerce data is being generated and consumed

We are building a user panel of several of millions of users worldwide and are looking for top quality partners with substantial user base to enhance our panel.

We are working in a very similar manner to redacted, providing you with an easy to integrate SDK to collect anonymous data.

If you are already working with redacted’s SDK the integration should take no more than a couple of minutes.
There is no collision with any other monetization tool you might be working with today.
Our SDK holds no monetization or any other form of user interaction and it does not interfere with the user experience.

It is also important to state that we collect no personal data and only store information relevant for online shopping trends.

We can help you monetize your extension in a simple and non-intrusive manner.

I would like to discuss potential integration with you and see how we can work together.

Will you be available today/tomorrow for a short call to explain things?

05/11/2016

I’m sure you get business proposals all the time, so I’ll get straight to the point. I hope what I’m proposing is a little different and might actually interest you. I like Hover Zoom+ as a great alternative to it’s bigger brother Hover Zoom that lost its glamour over the last couple of months.

We’re conducting a DNS error research and we’re interested in small amounts of anonymous data that you might be able to provide via your Chrome extension. Our research has been going on for years and Google has never had the slightest problem with it.

• Compatible with Google’s strict policies
• No personal user data
• No ads, no malware

The data we’re interested in are basically just DNS errors:

1. NXD – Non Existent Domain – the domain that a user entered that resulted in a DNS error.
2. A time stamp – when it happened.
3. GEO – where it happened (USA, UK, RU etc.).
4. A unique randomly generated user ID (can be hashed, not traceable back to the user). Please, don’t confuse this with the user IP address.

And that’s all. You can either use our script or collect the data on your own and send it to us via an FTP server, API etc. There’s a lot of different ways we can do this. We pay on a monthly basis. The payments depend on user GEOs, but it would be in thousands of dollars per year.

Is this worth at least a brief discussion? Looking forward to hearing from you.

A while back I reached out to you regarding a DNS error research our company conducts. Hover Zoom+ would be an ideal medium for our research. In return, this could become a solid new revenue stream for you.

Our method has been going on for years and we’ve never had the slightest problem with Google. We pay regularly on a monthly basis. For you it would be in tens of thousands of dollars per year – the amount depends on your users base and data quality.

If you’re concerned about including third party scripts, there’s still a lot of ways we can make this work.

Please let me know if this is worth a brief discussion to you.

05/26/2016

I’m interested in your chrome extension Hover Zoom+.

I want to buy it with the transfer of your google account or without it which means the transfer of the chrome extension in my account.
I propose the price 14 500 $.
We can bargain if your users are active.

06/07/2016

Меня зовут redacted, я тебе писал на Linkedin.com, но решил продублировать письмо на почту.
Как говорил, мы партнерская программа для сайтов и браузерных расширений.
Наш сайт redacted – там можно почитать подробную информацию о наших методах и инструментах работы.

Твое расширение пользуется популярностью, на Webstore уже больше 290k пользователей, а с такими показателями можно получить крутой доп заработок. Если на вскидку, то можно ориентироваться на сумму от 2000-3000$ ежемесячно.

У нас много вариантов монетизации, так что мы сможем подобрать вариант, что бы твои пользователи этого не ощущали на себе и не испытывали дискомфорт.

В подписи мой скайп, стукни плиз, как будет время, переговорим более предметно.

Ты получил мое первое письмо? Предлагаю обсудить этот вопрос в скайпе.

7/29/2016

I would like to introduce myself. My name is redacted and I work for redacted
I’m contacting you today about your extension.

We are looking for qualified traffic for our advertisers.

Do you have available traffic to sell to us. If so, which are the conditions?

We can maybe set a call.

Looking forward to your reply.

9/6/2016

I faced with your extension “Hover Zoom+”. I know how much effort it took to make this extension. I would like to suggest you the best way how to earn money from your product for your efforts. I would like to offer you the best tools you could implement in your extension. We will help you find the best setup to provide high income without loading users intrusive adware. I’m the right person to help you with this to do it correctly, harmless to your users ;)

9/19/2016

My name is redacted.

I faced with your extension in the Chrome Store “Hover Zoom+”. Impressed by professionalism and the quality of your product. I want to offer you a cooperation. Our company is engaged in the monetization of applications, toolbars, extensions. No harm to your users.

For example, your income for the 10k users will be ~ $ 1000 per month, users 20k ~ $ 2000 per month… 100к users ~10 000 $, and so on.

I would be happy to cooperate.

10/5/2016

We are looking for chrome extension developers that are looking to monetize their projects. I think Hover Zoom might be a good fit.

We partner with Yahoo and can offer a search box implementation where you get paid for each click on an ad (after a search from your plugin). Considering the size of your user base, you could conceivably make very good revenue.

Please let me know if you have any interest in discussing further. My contact information is below.

10/25/2016

Hi Oleg, nice to meet you, my name is redacted, i’m account manager at redacted. We develop monetization solutions for browser extensions.

Are you interested in monetization Hover Zoom+ ? I know you’re worried about your users, so, i want to offer you our great solution – coupons, this is top line that helps your users save money, this solution is not aggressive, appears only in online stores. Also, we have many other methods and formats.

Easy integration – just add few lines of JS code into your product and you’ll start generate revenue.

Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any further questions, my Skype – redacted

11/22/2016

Hope you are doing great.

I would like to find some business opportunities we may start with to build our partnership.

Our company is a network, basically we work with js monetizations. Working with extensions, toolbars, add-ons and applications.

We provide our publishers with great range of monetization types:
smartlinks, smartwords, afflinks, intext, white space banners; pops / popunders,
clickunders; intext, newtab, search injection, coupons; in-page banners; in-image monetization, etc.

ARPDAU (Average Revenue Per Daily Active User) basis – In average we have $0.007-0.011/user, US is $0.018.

We have plenty of advertisers through out the world, so not limited to any geo.

Thank you for your time.
Looking forward to your reply.

2/26/2017

I hope you are doing well.

I wanted to propose you an opportunity to monetise users from your extension.Our company is specialised in monetising software downloads and browsers extensions by adding search.

We have direct deals with Yahoo, Bing and Google.

Let me know if you are interested & add me on Skype.

PS: I’m user of your product and I like it :)

3/29/2017

I am a representative of the company redacted., Which is a leader in monetizing browser extensions.

Currently redacted– the most advanced and profitable platform for profitable cooperation.

Based on the above we want to make you a better offer for collaborating.

We offer more than 10 types of monetization, each of which has confirmed unique effectiveness.

Depending on your needs, we provide several methods of monetizating- from the soft to the hard methods. Be sure No negative experiences from users – Only appropriate and clear advertising. In addition, by providing an individual approach, we take into account the wishes of each partner.Please, take the most note that, our system didn’t conflict with other systems, so you can easily earn extra income.

Why cooperate with us is profitable:

Without the slightest effort you can give yourself a high revenue.

Payments are carried out on request. No delays and no minimum amount.

Select a payment system that is preferable for you.

Lightweight and easy to use interface will provide full comfort for webmasters.

Responsive support service instantly answer all the questions that interest you.

The complete absence of restrictions on the GEO.

Detailed statistics in real time. Failures and disturbances in the system are excluded.

Profitable Refferal Program.

In conjuction with redacted your extension “Hover Zoom+” will become a reliable guarantee of maximum profit.

High earnings, combined with comfort for users- Now it’s really!

If you are interested in our offer or have any questions or suggestions, please feel free contact with us. We look forward for collaboration!!!

4/11/2017

Hello! My name is redacted and I work with users traffic monetization, as well as browser extensions.
I looked up your extension, and I would like to invite you to work with our company. I analyzed that the expansion of “Hover Zoom+” can give you a guaranteed high profit without affecting the user UX. We offer more than 10 types of monetization, and our system optimizes traffic from all over the world.
Please, let me know any your decision or contact me to discuss all details.

5/4/2017

I’m redacted, regional manager of redacted advertisement network.

redacted is PopUnder ad network operating since 2015. We are currently offering your extension/plugin a private deal with advanced payments for CPM / impressions, and we are ready to discuss the prices so that our offer could be more profitable for you.

PopUnder is different from PopUp and other types of online ads. PopUnder opens in a new tab/window in one click. The ad appears as a separate tab or window behind the main browser window (that is why it’s called PopUnder) and doesn’t have a negative impact on the user’s perception of the website and user experience. PopUnder doesn’t distract the user from your website. All technical settings (number of clicks, time etc) are open to discussion.

Just to see how PopUnder operates you can try our demo: redacted.

Advertisements correspond with your target audience so that you monetize your site to the fullest extent. You will decide how often PopUnder ads will appear. The ads can be moderated and you can disable or remove any kind of advertisement you dislike.

Our ads are currently running on: redacted

Our platform comprises 3000+ advertisers.

The main ad categories are e-commerce (online shopping), software, gaming.

Please download our presentation: redacted

I am always ready to answer any questions and receive other feedback on our cooperation via email redacted or Skype –redacted.

5/16/2017

My name is redacted. I’m trying to find the developer that owns the extension, Hover Zoom. If you’re the owner of this Chrome extension, I would like to discuss if you would be open to selling your add on? Would you be available call or a Skype chat this week? My details are below.

Looking forward to your feedback.

This is a follow up to my previous email.

Did you have time to review my proposal? I will be happy to give you a price estimation.

We also have monetization solutions if you are not interested in selling your extension.

Looking forward to your reply!

6/8/2017

Nadia here from redacted, nice e-meeting you.

I am getting in touch as we are interested in buying your Hover Zoom+ Chrome extension. If you would be open discussing this, could you please let me know what would be your price and share stats such as the DAU and the geo distribution of your users?

If you are not interested in selling, I am keen to discuss other business opportunities. Are you available this Thursday 3pm for a call/chat?

Looking forward to your feedback.

7/4/2017

First of all, i really appreciate your work you have done with hoverzoom+, its a nice tool.
The thing is, i work for a german company that buys promissing chrome extensions.

Now i can make you an offer if you are interested in selling your extension. If you are interested just let me know and we can talk about details, if you are not interested its no problem either, just thought that you would deserve some money for your work.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

8/28/2017

I wanted to reach out and see who you are working with to monetize your
Chrome Extension.

My company redacted is a Yahoo syndication partner and we were interested in learning more
about your extension and search traffic to see if working together might be a good idea.

Please let me know.

8/30/2017

I am interested in acquiring your extension “Hover Zoom+”.

Please ping me on skype: redacted

Or we can monetize it

10/12/2017

My name is redacted, I’m from the redacted team redacted – monetization platform for browser extensions.
We are one of the best platforms for monetizing browser extensions.

I was highly impressed both by the professionalism & quality of your product “Hover Zoom”,and I have interesting proposal for monetizing your extension.
I’m not suggesting that you insert annoying ads into your extension, I’m talking about invisible monetization methods that will not harm your users.

contact me via Skype, for more detailed conversation, my contacts are below.

Looking forward to hearing back from you.

10/12/2017

my name is redacted and I work at redacted.
I noticed your extension Hover Zoom+ , and I would like to ask if you may wanna sell it ?

Let me know if your interested, you can also add me on Skype (signature) to discuss more.

10/16/2017

I use Hover Zoom+ and found your info via GitHub. My firm, redacted, was founded by former Microsoft engineers and is a leading venture backed competitive intelligence service that provides insights to clients such as Proctor and Gamble, TurboTax and Geico. We’re not an ad network, ad exchange, malware etc. In short, we’re nerds who love to surf and happen to write awesome software 😎

We’re interested in exploring partnership opportunities with select Chrome extension developers and were really impressed by the positive ratings (810!) you received from your users. Our partners have gained access to a new and simple revenue stream without interfering with your user experience or gathering PII. We consider partners and their users to be long term strategic relationships. In some instances, we’ve also acquired extensions where it made sense for both sides.

I’d love to have an informal chat and learn more about your work on Hover Zoom+. Do you have a few minutes late Wednesday or Thursday PDT?

Just a friendly follow-up. My CEO is quite keen to speak to you – do you have a few minutes to connect Thursday or Friday?

10/30/2017

Привет!

Я аккаунт менеджер из компании redacted. Заинтересовало Ваше расширение, я хотела бы его купить. Напишите мне, если Вы рассматриваете подобные предложения.

Спасибо.

12/18/2017

My name is redacted and i am working with users traffic monetization, also browser extensions.

I have not have any problems with your product, but i want to propose you to earn great extra profit from work you have been done.

I would like to propose you to work together around monetization of your extension “Hover Zoom+”.

All of our advertising solutions are Google and MS Compliance and will work perfect!

We have lots of them and i am sure that we can find right way to earn for you extra profit not affecting your users UX.

Your extension is very popular – more than 297.000 installs – its a great result, really!! And in this case extra profit can be calculated in thousands dollars a month.

According to preliminary estimates your profit can start from 5000-6000$ a month and much more with time.

Please, let me know any your decision or contact me to discuss all details.

1/21/2018

Love your Chrome Extension!

Would you be interested in passing the project on? I’m looking for some fun projects this year and it would be great to build on your work – I was going to make something similar but would be better if I could pickup something with an existing audience.

Would consider selling? If so let me know a price range you feel is fair.

Just bumping this.

Just bumping this incase you missed it? if not interested let me know

Would you change your mind $5,000?

1/27/2018

I wrote you some time ago regarding your extension. I am working for a german company that buys chrome extensions.

If you are interested in selling just let me know and then we can talk about everything in detail.

I am sure that my price range could be interesting for you.
Looking forward to hearing from you.

2/13/2018

Hello, I am interested in this extension link
Do you want to sell it? I can give you a good price 2000-3000$ (depend your statistics).
Thank you!

3/11/2018

Hello,
please tell me how can I contact with owner of “Hover Zoom” extension? ‌
I would like to purchase this extension

3/15/2018

Would you be interested in selling your extension: Hover Zoom+?

I have a good offer, which you might be interested in.

Interested?

Kindly Respond,

Hey , Hope you had received our mail, What the best you want to desire from us.

Hey – Waiting for your response, Could we know what are you waiting for.

3/19/2018

My name is redacted and I am working for a german company that is buying chrome extensions. That’s the reason why I am contacting you because I would like to make you an offer for your chrome extensions.

If you are interested in selling just let me know and then we can talk about everything in detail. Maybe my price range could be interesting for you!

Looking forward to hearing from you.

3/22/2018

My name is redacted and I am working for a german company that buys chrome extensions. That’s the reason why I am contacting you.

I would like to make you an offer for your “Hover Zoom+” extension. If you are interested in selling just let me know and then we can talk about everything in detail.

Maybe my price range could be interesting for you.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Sorry to bother you again but I was wondering if you might be interested in selling your extension?

Would you may be interested in a cooperation?

4/30/2018

I am contacting you regarding your browser extension (I love the simplicity of it :) ). I think there is an opportunity for a cooperation between us.

I’ve developed redacted – an extension that lets users support highly effective, research-backed charities while shopping online (with no extra costs). It’s somewhat similar to Amazon Smile program. It works with 1000+ shops including eBay, Microsoft, Etsy, Barnes&Noble, Aliexpress. For every $4.85 raised for Against Malaria Foundation two people are protected from malaria (via bed nets) and for every $1.19 raised for Schistosomiasis Control Initiative one child gets a year supply of medicine.

Would you be interested in placing a recommendation for redacted after user installs your extension? I could pay $1 per new user that comes from your page.

That way you can unintrusively monetize your software and help raise money for great causes at the same time.

Let me know what you think.

5/9/2018

Hope you are doing great.

Short story.
I’m tired of offline business, and exploring new ways of money making on internet.

Today I stop my views at the browser extension as the most profitable and undiscovered niches, unfortunately it requires product with audience to start.

I’m not a developer but have an extremely wish to check what it is. Basically I found already team who provides monetization solution for ext, and now I’m looking to buy one.

I thought perhaps you got mind to sell yours. Let me