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OpenConvert

OpenConvert logo and tagline: every price on the web, in your currency

Overview

A Chrome extension that converts currency on demand. I was shopping on a foreign site, converting prices in my head one at a time, and wanted it to stop.

Ship30 drop #01. The scope is deliberately small: it converts when you invoke it and does nothing otherwise.

Reflection

Every extension I found for this ran constantly in the background and rewrote pages I had not asked it to touch. A one-off annoyance did not justify that, so the whole design decision was to stay inert until called.

Keeping it that small is why it actually shipped, which is the entire point of the Ship30 exercise.

Gallery

OpenConvert popup converting GBP to JPY, accepting math in the amount field and converting one-to-many
OpenConvert live price conversion settings for rewriting prices as you browse
OpenConvert number formatting settings for decimal places and number format
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