Your extension is similar to many other instant-translation extensions on Chrome store. I.e. Google Translate extension (which I use and am quite happy with) is free and has 5M+ users.
IMHO your real problem is that Readlang do
es not offer enough features that would differentiate it from other free offerings.
- Store all your translations, along with their contexts, to your account?
and have a accompanying web-apps which let you:
- review those translations with flashcards, prioritizing the most frequent words in the language, and utilizing a spaced repetition algorithm so that you spend more time on the words and phrases you find difficult?
- export of those flashcards for use in other apps such as Anki
- upload novels to read in a distraction free, paginated reading interface which works well on mobile devices?
- watch videos with sync'd transcriptions?
- share and vote on native texts and videos with a community of language learners?
If so, please let me know!
And if you didn't realize any of the above - I take the blame for not communicating it better on the landing page. The problem is that overwhelming users with info usually isn't a great idea either. Hard to strike the right balance.
I don't expect everyone who installs the Google Translate extension to install Readlang - since mine is targeted mainly at intermediate and advanced language learners.
The flashcard feature caught me by surprise, and I loved it! I just started playing around with the in-page translations, went back to the site, and was very pleasantly surprised! Much better than any of the language learning browser extensions I've used before!
IMHO your real problem is that Readlang do es not offer enough features that would differentiate it from other free offerings.