HN – I don't need AI to build me a new app. I need it to make Jira bearable

Last week I asked Claude to build me a Jira sidebar that shows cross-project dependency graphs — the kind Jira buries across 4 clicks and 3 page loads. 4 prompts. Works inside my actual Jira. It just used Claude Chrome extension that injects a panel into the page I already have open.

And I keep thinking: why isn't everyone doing this?

The entire AI coding conversation is about building new apps from scratch. Cool. But I don't need a new app. Most people spend their workday inside apps they didn't choose: Jira, Salesforce, Workday, ServiceNow, etc. These tools are not going anywhere. My company chose them in 2019 and they're entrenched until at least 2029.

Chrome extensions just reads what's already in the DOM and augments it.

Is there a fundamental reason this can't work at scale that I'm not seeing? Why isn't Claude's Chrome extension catching more attention?

I don't need AI to build me a new app. I need it to make Jira bearable

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