In October 2023, Webflow shipped a Designer update that quietly removed the visible undo/redo buttons from the UI. Keyboard shortcuts still worked, but a lot of designers — especially folks on trackpads, tablets, or just used to clicking a button — suddenly had no obvious way to step backwards. The Webflow Wishlist and community forums filled up with complaints fast.
I read the threads, agreed with them, and decided the fastest fix wasn't a petition. It was an extension.
Shipping it in days
UndoFlow is a Chrome extension that puts the undo and redo buttons back in the Webflow Designer navbar, right where they used to live. It's deliberately tiny: plain JavaScript on top of Chrome Extension APIs, injecting the buttons into the Designer UI and wiring them to the same undo/redo actions the keyboard shortcuts trigger.
From "people are annoyed" to "live on the Chrome Web Store" took a few days. I launched it on Product Hunt, the Webflow community picked it up, and it settled at 4.7★ on the Chrome Web Store — from people who just wanted their button back.
What it taught me
UndoFlow is the smallest project on this page and one of my favorites, because it compressed the whole product loop into a week:
- Listen where users already complain. The spec was sitting in a Wishlist thread, fully written, for free.
- Scope ruthlessly. One button (okay, two). No settings page, no onboarding, no roadmap. The constraint is the feature.
- Speed is a feature. Being the fix that exists this week beats being the better fix that ships next quarter.
Tiny, sharp tools shipped fast earn a disproportionate amount of trust. UndoFlow opened more doors in the Webflow ecosystem than projects fifty times its size.