Stripe Self-Pay Calculator Chrome Extension

A Chrome extension that connects to your Stripe account (read-only) and calculates how much you can safely pay yourself based on 3-month average revenue minus expenses, taxes, and a custom buffer percentage.

Solo founders increasingly treating their LLC/sole-prop revenue as a salary planning problem — not just a bookkeeping one — has created real demand for lightweight cashflow-to-paycheck tools, especially as the cohort of Stripe-native solopreneurs has grown substantially post-2020. No clear incumbent owns this specific niche; Bench and Pilot touch adjacent territory but are full accounting products, not quick-answer calculators. The $500–5k/mo revenue band is realistic given this lives and dies on a one-time or low-price purchase model, since there's no recurring hook strong enough to justify a subscription once the novelty wears off. The biggest risk is retention collapse — users set it up once, glance at it monthly at best, and churn or abandon before any word-of-mouth flywheel starts, making payback on any acquisition spend nearly impossible.