IndiePump Creator Finder

A Chrome extension for finding and keeping track of content creators. This page explains what it does, how it works, and exactly what it does with your data. Last updated 24 August 2026.

In short: it is a research notebook that runs on your own computer. It reads a page only at the moment you right-click and ask it to, and everything it saves stays on your device. Nothing is sent anywhere unless you connect an IndiePump account and choose which creators to send.

What it is for

Finding the right creators to show your game to means opening a lot of channels and keeping notes on all of them. IndiePump Creator Finder replaces the spreadsheet you would otherwise keep by hand. When you are looking at a creator’s public profile, you save it in one click, and it lands on a board on your own computer with the details already filled in.

How it works

  1. Find a creator. Open any public profile you are interested in. The extension understands YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, X, and Instagram, and it will also read a creator’s own website or contact page.
  2. Right-click and choose “Save creator to IndiePump”. This is the only way the extension starts. Nothing runs until you pick that menu item.
  3. Check what it found. A card appears over the page showing the name, handle, audience size, and contact address it was able to read. You can correct anything, add a note, add tags, and pick which board it belongs on.
  4. Save. The card is stored on your device. Your board page groups saves into research sessions automatically, warns you when you are about to save someone twice, and exports the whole list to CSV whenever you want it in a spreadsheet.

When it reads a page

Only at the moment you choose “Save creator to IndiePump” from the right-click menu, and only on the tab you invoked it on.

  • The extension declares no content scripts, so nothing runs when a page loads.
  • It has no standing access to any website.
  • It does not read your browsing history, your other tabs, or your bookmarks.
  • It keeps no record of the pages you visit. Pages you do not save leave no trace at all.

What it collects when you save a creator

It reads only what the page itself publishes publicly:

  • Name, handle, and platform
  • The public profile URL
  • The publicly stated audience or follower count
  • A contact email address, only where the page publishes one openly. Addresses deliberately written to avoid harvesting, such as “name [at] domain [dot] com”, are flagged as present but never decoded and never stored.
  • Whether the profile looks like a game developer or a content creator, and the page language, where the page indicates them
  • One thumbnail image of the visible tab, taken at the moment you save, scaled down and used as the picture on the saved card so you can recognise it later
  • Anything you type yourself: your notes, tags, and board names

The extension never signs in to any site, never reaches anything behind a login, and never collects anything from a page you have not saved.

Where that data is stored

In a database on your own device, using your browser’s IndexedDB storage. Your view preferences are kept in Chrome’s extension storage. Nothing is stored anywhere else.

What leaves your device

Nothing, until you connect an account and press Send. Out of the box the extension has no key, holds no permission to reach indiepump.space, and contacts no server. Install it, use it for a year, and nothing will ever leave your machine.

If you have an IndiePump developer account you can connect it, which turns on one optional feature: sending creators you have found to your research list on IndiePump, so you can invite them to cover your game. It works like this:

  • You ask for it twice. Once by pasting a key you created on your IndiePump account page, and again by granting the browser’s permission prompt for indiepump.space. Refusing either leaves the extension exactly as it was.
  • You choose who goes. There is no automatic or background sync. You select creators and press Send, every time.
  • Only eight fields go across: the creator’s name, handle, platform, language, published follower count and public contact email, plus a local record id and the date you saved them. Your notes, your boards, your tags, your screenshots and the record of which page you saved them from all stay on this device.
  • You can disconnect. Removing the key on your IndiePump account page stops the extension reaching the server at once, and revoking the site permission in your browser does the same. Creators already sent stay on your IndiePump list until you delete them there.

Two things that never leave the device at all. When a profile publishes no contact address, the extension notes which other sites that profile links to — a Linktree, the creator’s own site — so it can point you at the next place to look. It only opens one in a tab; it never fetches or reads those pages itself. And if you tell it what your game is about, those words are stored in your browser and matched against descriptions already saved on your own board. What you are making is never sent to IndiePump or anywhere else.

One thing a connected extension does automatically. Once connected, it asks IndiePump whether the creators on your board are already listed in the public IndiePump creator directory, so it can tell you which ones you can invite through the platform instead of hunting for an email address. To ask that question it sends the creator’s handle and profile URL — both public, and nothing else. It asks once per creator, never repeats it, and never sends your notes, your email addresses or anything about the pages you visited. If you have not connected an account, this never happens.

The extension contains no analytics, no advertising code, no third-party scripts, no tracking pixels, and no remote code of any kind. It contacts no server other than indiepump.space, and only when you have connected an account.

What we do not do

We do not sell your data. We do not transfer it to third parties. We do not use it for advertising, credit assessment, lending, or any purpose unrelated to the extension’s single purpose. We do not use it to build a profile of you.

Why the extension asks for each permission

  • contextMenus: adds the one right-click item that starts a save.
  • activeTab: reads the profile details and takes the thumbnail, on that one tab, at that one moment.
  • scripting: places the page reader and the confirmation card into that tab, once per action.
  • storage: keeps your view preferences, and your account key once you connect one.
  • indiepump.space (optional): not requested at install. The browser asks for it at the moment you connect an account, and only then. Decline it and everything else carries on working.

The extension requests no access to any website in advance.

Deleting your data

Delete any saved card from the board page at any time. Removing the extension from Chrome deletes the local database and everything in it.

If you connected an account, the creators you sent are on your IndiePump research list. Delete them there, or disconnect the extension from your IndiePump account page, which revokes the key immediately.

Children

The extension is a professional research tool and is not directed at children.

Changes to this page

Any change is posted here with a new date at the top.

Contact

Questions about this policy, about the extension, or about data it has saved: gamehorizongr@gmail.com. IndiePump is operated by Gorbenko Alexander.