PiPPlay

A lightweight YouTube floating mini player for Chrome

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September 11, 2026 The product is built. Now I’m learning distribution.

PiPPlay has started picking up a small number of organic installs, so I’m moving into the next challenge: getting the right people to discover it.
Instead of buying ads immediately, I’m testing distribution one channel at a time — Reddit, Product Hunt, community posts, and other organic channels.
I’m tracking each experiment separately so I can learn what actually brings meaningful traffic rather than chasing vanity metrics.
The interesting lesson so far: building a small product and getting people to know it exists are two completely different problems.
I’ll keep sharing what works — and what doesn’t.

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August 23, 2026 PiPPlay is live on the Chrome Web Store 🚀

PiPPlay officially shipped as a free Chrome extension.
The goal is simple: keep YouTube videos floating while you work, study, design, code, or browse — with useful playback controls close by.
I’m keeping the product intentionally lightweight:
Free. No ads. No account. No tracking backend.
This is the starting point. For now, I’m focusing on reliability, learning from early users, and keeping the product simple instead of rushing into more features.

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PiPPlay started from a simple frustration: constantly switching back to YouTube while following tutorials, studying, designing, coding, or working in another app. I wanted the video to stay available without getting in t