My AI-Empowered Supercharged LinkedIn Workflow

In my job search, my main strategy has been networking. I find people building products I’m excited about and ask for a quick chat. I noticed I was spending a surprising amount of time on the repetitive parts of LinkedIn outreach, and since I’m a frontend engineer (React/TypeScript), I decided to build a tool to fix it. I made LinkedIn Secret Weapon: a Chrome extension, built almost entirely with Claude Code, that personalizes an intro template and reduces the LinkedIn “connect” flow to a few keystrokes. You can download it on the Chrome Web Store , or check out the source code on Github . How it works: I write one template like this: Hi {{firstName}}, I came across your profile while looking into the frontend engineer position at {{companyName}}… (etc) Then, as I move through profiles, the extension pulls first name and company name and puts the filled-in message on my clipboard. Learning from real-world usage After a few weeks of using my extension, I realized the biggest bottleneck