A Vietnamese developer's #9 clone: the same code ported to Google Vids to occupy an empty slot

Vids Automation is a free Chrome extension that runs Veo video and voiceover generation in bulk inside Google Vids. It reached 9,000 users and a 4.88 rating 5 months after listing. It's not a new idea from one person: Hanoi developer Truong Nguyen took the code of his two existing extensions with 100k users and re-listed it under a new URL. What's worth looking at isn't the extension itself but the author's playbook: "Google opens a new entry point, so I ship a same-named extension."

"Stop typing prompts one by one"

2026 Jun 23, the YouTube channel 「Truong Nguyen | AI Automation Tools」 posted a video titled 《Vids Automation User Guide》. The first line of the description reads: 「Stop wasting time entering prompts one by one manually.」 It goes on to say the plugin can queue dozens or hundreds of prompts at once, batch-generate videos and images, convert text to voiceovers, then auto-download and sort everything into project folders. As of Nov 6, the video has 1,452 views in total.

The extension was listed in Jun 6. Two months earlier, on Apr 2, Google announced on its official blog that all personal Google accounts could use Veo 3.1 to generate videos in Vids for free. Vids sits under docs.google.com/videos as part of the Google Docs family, which is why the extension is named "Auto VEO & Voice on Google Docs."

In Sep 16, a user named Christina Conley left a review in the store: "My favorite part is being able to queue a lot of work at once." That's all it really sells.

What it is

Once installed, a sidebar appears on the right side of Google Vids. Paste in a whole list of prompts and it submits them, waits for generation, and runs the next one by itself, with automatic intervals to avoid rate limits and automatic retries on failure. Finished videos, images, and MP3 voiceovers are downloaded automatically and placed in project folders. A Concat mode chains several prompts into one long video, each prompt can take up to 3 reference images, and the interface is available in 6 languages: English, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Spanish (per the store description).

It's free, the store lists no in-app purchases, and the author's site kylenguyen.me has no pricing page. It uses the debugger permission to simulate real clicks on the page, so it has to be updated every time Google changes the interface: 5 months of releases up to 1.2.0, with the latest version on Nov 3.

Where the 9,000 users came from

Chrome Web Store, 11-01 to 11-06. User count didn't change at all in a single week.

The author barely promoted it: two Vids tutorials totaled under 2,000 views, and in the nearly 90 days before, searches for "Vids Automation" and "Google Vids bulk" on X each returned 0 posts. No media coverage, and no ads seen. Users come mainly from two places.

First, nobody is competing for store search. Among Chrome Web Store extensions built specifically for bulk generation in Google Vids, it's the only standalone one I could find. Searching "Google Vids automation extension bulk prompts" in a search engine, its store page is the first result. The title is stuffed with VEO, Voice, and Google Docs, so it shows up for any of those terms.

Second, its own extensions cross-promote each other. The store lists 13 "related extensions" beneath it, 10 of which are Truong Nguyen's own. This person has 16 extensions under the same "X Automation" naming:

Together they come close to 400k users. Traffic from the big ones flows through the related slots to the smaller ones, and the official homepage lays out a dozen-plus of them as a directory with install buttons. From Oct 1 to 16, his channel posted an English usage guide for 9 different extensions in a single half-month stretch. It's an assembly line: the same queue, download, and retry code, with a different target website and a rewritten set of page selectors, becomes a new extension.

One thing in the reviews is worth noticing: 93 ratings from 9,000 users, a rating rate of about 1%, 4 times that of the same author's Grok extension. Recent reviews are mostly five-star one- or two-word notes like "Great" and "Working great," clustering in mid-to-late September, several with Vietnamese names. Seedance and Qwen in the same matrix show equally high rating rates and the same 5.0 score. Whether this was solicited can't be confirmed (inference).

Why Vids specifically

The real main battlefield for bulk tools is Google Flow, the front door to Veo, where there are over a hundred similar extensions; the author's own Flow version alone has 100k users. Vids matters because it is a separate, independently metered quota pool: the same Veo counts separately in Flow and in Vids. Google's help center quota table (compiled by projedefteri.com in September) says free personal accounts get only 6 videos per month, AI Pro gets 500 seconds per month, Ultra gets 2,500 to 10,000 seconds per month, and voiceover is unlimited on Pro and above.

So free users get little value from a bulk tool; the ones who actually need it are heavy users who pay for Pro, Ultra, or Workspace: they drain the Flow quota, then drain a second one in Vids, and use Vids' voiceover along the way (inference). The name "VEO & Voice" is deliberately chosen to target exactly this.

This also explains why it has plateaued at 9,000: the entry point itself is small, and few people can actually use up the quota.

Who it's competing with

On the Vids side alone, it was the first and nearly only one built for it. The real threat isn't competitors, it's Google: Flow already has an official agent, and once Vids gets one too, this whole category loses its reason to exist. It also runs by simulating clicks, so if Google tightens automation detection, it gets hit directly. Quota rules are shifting too: personal accounts have already dropped from 10 to 6 clips per month.

Where the money comes from

This one doesn't make money. Of the author's whole lineup, only Flow and Grok are listed with in-app purchases on the store. A third-party writeup says the Grok version is "core features free, paid unlocks higher limits", but prices and paying-user counts are not public. The Vids version exists to hold a spot, collect ratings, and give the bigger products more reach.

Searching online turns up flowautomation.store, advertising 100 free runs a day, $4 a month, or $20 a year. It's easy to mistake it for this author's paywall. Checked: it belongs to a Bangladeshi developer's separate extension, Auto Flow Pro, and has no connection to Truong Nguyen.

If it were you

C: worth learning from, not worth copying for Vids. The Vids bulk slot is already taken. The entry point is small, the user base has plateaued, it earns nothing, and it's always one Google official feature away from being obsolete. What's worth studying is the author's method: one generic "queue + download + retry" codebase, with a same-named extension put up first on every new AI generation entry point.

Who it suits: solo developers who can quickly write web automation and are willing to keep fixing selectors as each vendor updates its UI; people who already run one or two similar extensions and want to cross-promote through a portfolio.

Who it doesn't suit: anyone hoping to make money from a single extension. A single-entry free bulk tool tops out around 10k users, and the money comes from subscriptions on big entry points like Flow, where 100+ extensions already compete. It also doesn't suit people who can't handle "everything breaks when Google changes something".

How to do it: don't copy Vids, go after the next entry point nobody has built for yet. Watch for new generation products that launch with separate quotas (new video model sites, AI features inside Canva and CapCut, image generators from big vendors in various countries). Within two to four weeks of launch, ship an "X Automation": batch submission, automatic download, folders per project, with a multilingual UI. The step beyond Truong Nguyen is what happens after download: like Erasio, drop the results straight onto a timeline or export them as a finished cut. That's the part none of his same-shape extensions handle well.

How to get users: put the platform name, the model name, and the words automation / bulk in the title, to catch store searches like "platform + automation" that nobody is contesting. Publish one YouTube usage guide per extension. Once you have two or three, have them take up each other's related-extension slots in the store. If you charge at all, charge only on the one with the largest quota.

When to move: within the first one or two months after a new entry point opens. Vids opened in April, the author arrived in June, and only Erasio has followed since. Later than that, the early movers have already collected the search terms and reviews.

What would show you're wrong: ① Vids Automation passes 20k users before year-end, which would mean the Vids quota pool is bigger than assumed and a better Vids-specific tool is worth building; ② Google ships official bulk or an agent inside Vids, or starts blocking click simulation, which closes the window for this whole approach; ③ the author's next new-entry-point extension sits at a few hundred users a month after launch, which would mean the "claim a new entry point" advantage has been spread thin by him and his peers.

A final note for anyone building extensions: when the same model is placed in several products with separate quotas, every entry point attracts people who want to squeeze out every last credit. Count how many extensions already exist for an entry point before deciding whether to build there.

Data and sources

• Store page and reviews: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/caiompjhmpmodfbfdbihlkbbeijgpial (11-06 read, version 1.2.0,11-03 updated); user counts and rating counts from 11-01 to 11-06 come from the Chrome store's daily scrape.
• Other extensions from the author and related slots: Chrome store, 11-01 to 11-06; official site kylenguyen.me.
• YouTube: the author's channel @trgkyle has Vids guides (2026-06-23, 2026-10-16), and Automation Xpert (2026-08-29) and Enable Website Design (2026-08-27) have bulk tutorials; view counts as seen: 11-06.
• Google Vids free access and model switch: blog.google (2026-04-02, 2026-09-23); quota table: projedefteri.com (compiled from the help center data, 2026-09-29).
• Competitors: Erasio store page and erasio.io/vids-auto-guide; flowautomation.store and the Auto Flow Pro store page.
• Discussion on X: keyword search over the past ~90 days, 0 posts.