A Philippine GHL moderator posted a free video, and his screenshot plugin got 227 users in a week

BrewedShot is a Chrome extension that captures the full canvas of automation workflows in GoHighLevel, Zapier and n8n and stitches them into one clear long image. It listed in Sep 11, and by Nov 5 had 666 users and a 5.0 rating. The user count is small, but how it gained traction is clear: the need for the plugin is real, yet the same feature was offered free two months earlier and didn't take off. The difference isn't the product, it's who made it.

A 2-minute 46-second video

On Sep 11 2026 afternoon, the Facebook page "Kenneth Villar" (@BrewedOpsHL) posted a 2 min 46 sec video titled "BrewedShot Chrome Extension - GHL Workflow Screenshot 100% FREE". The post text was just a store link plus a line in mixed Tagalog and English saying they also need feedback to improve. By Nov 6, the video had 23k views, 341 reactions and 97 comments (Facebook, 11-06).

The author pinned a reminder in the comments: "When sharing screenshots, recipients need to download the image to see it clearly." That line shows what this crowd uses it for: sending workflow screenshots to clients or bosses.

The effect shows in the store numbers: 51 users the day after listing and 227 in a week (extops.dev curve). A new Chrome Web Store extension gets organic search traffic of usually single digits per day, so this pace could only have come from a one-off push outside the store. It then grew by about 10 a day, steadily, reaching 5 by Nov 666.

On Oct 4 he posted another one-minute video: "BrewedShot PRO is approved", with "Currently: 300+ users" in the post and a final line: "DM me for a discount code, first 25 people." That one got 10k views. A commenter named Khael Mendoza wrote, "I use this every day for real, screenshot tools alone are too hard, thanks boss."

What it is

GoHighLevel (GHL) is an all-in-one SaaS for marketing agencies with a drag-and-drop automation editor: triggers, send SMS, wait two days, add tag... A workflow is drawn on a pannable, zoomable canvas. The problem is that a canvas isn't a web page, so ordinary full-page screenshot plugins only capture the visible part. Once a workflow gets long, showing a client the whole thing means screenshotting it screen by screen and stitching by hand. GHL itself doesn't offer exporting workflows as images.

BrewedShot moves across the canvas one cell at a time, captures each, and stitches them into a single 2x-resolution image, so a 60-step workflow stays readable. The same approach works for Zapier and n8n, and it also includes a regular full-page screenshot (handling sticky navbars, lazy-loaded images and scrolling areas inside the page). These are all free.

Pro is $9.99 one-time, paid via Lemon Squeezy, one key covers 3 computers, with no trial and no refunds (kape.tools/brewedshot-pro, 10-19 version). Pro's extras all revolve around "show the client":

• Redaction editor: blur, mosaic, black boxes, arrows, numbered callouts. Redacted steps are also removed from exported text, not just covered on the image.
• Showcase: drop screenshots into 7 showcase layouts to output 4:5, 1:1 and 16:9 portfolio images for proposals.
• Workflow Playbook: an offline .html file that turns each workflow path into plain-language sentences with zoomable images, for handing off to teammates.
• Copy a workflow as Mermaid code to paste into AI or Miro.
• Stamp your own logo and name on every exported image.

The pricing page also says "Still on the old monthly plan? Manage or cancel here," which shows he tried monthly billing first and then moved to a one-time purchase.

Who is behind it

On his About page, Kenneth Villar writes that he spent 11 years in customer support, most recently as a support specialist at Lightspeed, the retail POS company. He is now a certified GHL admin and a moderator for a Philippine GHL training company called HL Accelerator, running its Facebook group "GHL 4Beginners" (formerly Highlevel Pilipinas) and Discord. HighLevel's official blog says the community has about 15k members. The group is private, so outsiders can't see whether he has posted this plugin there.

He also runs kape.tools, a workspace site for Filipino freelancers (kape is Tagalog for "coffee") with a job board, leads, and a collection of browser tools. BrewedShot and his two other plugins are listed in the free tier.

In other words, the plugin's target users, freelancers and remote assistants in the Philippines building GHL for overseas clients, are exactly the people he answers in his group every day.

Where users come from

• His own Facebook page: 10k followers, videos with 23k total views, which matches the 227 users in the first week. The Pro launch video got 10k views. This is the one source you can directly see.
• The community he moderates: probably, but the group is private and can't be confirmed.
• His own site, kape.tools: BrewedShot is listed in the free tier, and Pro has its own landing page.
• Store recommendations: the detail page sits alongside GHL plugins like Super Cloner and GHL Workflows Maker, which may bring in a few people from the same circle. The volume can't be told apart.
• Not seen: no trace on X, Reddit, Hacker News, TikTok or in the media, and no paid acquisition spotted. 7 ratings for 600 users is a normal ratio.

Who it's competing with

The first row matters most. Workflow Screenshotter listed two months earlier, has the same core feature, is free and open source, and its store description is nearly the same line BrewedShot solves: "Regular full-page screenshots only capture the visible part, so long workflows have to be stitched by hand." It didn't take off. BrewedShot did. The feature differences (more support for Zapier and n8n, one extra editor) decide whether money comes in at $9.99, not whether anyone installs it.

Where the money comes from

The only revenue is the $9.99 one-time Pro sale. The author hasn't disclosed sales. Roughly, if 3% to 5% of the 666 users bought Pro, that's about 20 to 35 sales, or a few hundred dollars (estimate). His main business is GHL agency work and training, and the plugin works more like a business card: it gets people in the circle to remember "find BrewedOps for workflow screenshots."

If it were you

In one line: don't build a second GHL workflow screenshot plugin. That space already has two players, and the traction came from the author's standing in the community, which followers can't get. What you can borrow is the angle: "a certain SaaS's canvas can't be captured whole," plus "shared by someone the circle listens to."

Who it suits: people already known in an agency or contractor circle around a specific SaaS, such as community moderators, course instructors, or YouTubers who teach the tool. Or developers who can negotiate revenue share with people like that.

Who it doesn't suit: anyone hoping to earn a living from one plugin. This is a business of a few hundred to a few thousand users at $10 one-time, and it won't support a person. It's also a poor fit for anyone without any community channel who plans to rely on store search for installs, which is exactly why Workflow Screenshotter didn't take off.

How to do it: pick a SaaS that has a canvas and a large base of contractors building things for clients, such as Make.com, HubSpot workflows, Salesforce Flow, Airtable, or ClickUp automations. First confirm it can't natively export a whole image (skip tools like Zapier that already can). The free version does one thing: captures the whole thing, clearly. The paid version follows BrewedShot's approach, with everything around "hand it to the client": redaction, portfolio showcase images, handover docs for teammates, your own logo on exports. State the privacy stance clearly (the free version makes no network calls and screenshots stay local), since contractors logging into client accounts care a lot about this.

How to get users: find the biggest Facebook groups, Discord servers, Skool communities and YouTubers covering this SaaS, and either become an active helper inside them yourself or give the extension to moderators for free so they post about it. Get a few hundred users with 100% free first, then launch a one-time purchase Pro, and DM discount codes to the first few dozen people.

When to walk away: there's no rush, since this kind of need doesn't disappear overnight. The real risk is that the SaaS adds an "export image" button itself. Before you start, check its product roadmap and community feature requests to see whether the vendor has said it's building one.

Signs you've misread it: you find a creator in the circle who posts a video, but only a few dozen people install in the first week. That means the SaaS's contractor community doesn't need whole-image delivery to clients that badly. Or BrewedShot itself stalls around 700 for the next two or three months, which would mean the ceiling is that low even for GHL, the most typical case.