I Turned a Small Lazy Moment into a Chrome Extension

I was watching a YouTube video (around 2 hours long) when I noticed something annoying: I kept moving my mouse just to check how much time had passed. It’s such a small thing, but it kept breaking my focus. And honestly, it felt ridiculous that there wasn’t a simpler solution for this. So I built one myself. What I Built I created a Chrome Extension that shows the current timestamp as a persistent overlay in the top-right corner while watching videos in fullscreen mode. No mouse movement needed. No interruptions. Just always visible progress. Shortcuts Press Y → Toggle the overlay on/off Press Shift + Y → Change the overlay style Why I Built It This wasn’t some big product idea. It started as pure frustration: Watching long videos Constantly moving the mouse just to check progress Breaking immersion every time So instead of tolerating it, I built a fix in a few hours. ⚙️ Simple, but Useful It’s not complex, but that’s the point. Sometimes the best tools are the ones that remove a tiny