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I'm in a similar position, a web developer with a reasonable salary interested in side income, but not interested in onerous responsibilities of running a busin

by kentt 9y ago

I'm in a similar position, a web developer with a reasonable salary interested in side income, but not interested in onerous responsibilities of running a business. I've been had two projects I'm sort of happy with 1. A shopify app that makes about 150/mo. I answer about 2 emails about it per month and otherwise don't work on it. It took about 150 hours to build so I haven't been paid well for it, but I enjoyed building it. 2. A WordPress plugin I acquired for about 10k that makes 800/mo. I get a lot more emails about this but I think if I get it into a less buggy state then I can get that down to something more reasonable.

omarchowdhury 9y ago
What's your plugin?
- iamroot 9y ago
  Answering this would kill his revenue by clones. :/
  - ge96 9y ago
    iamroot
6DM 9y ago
Do you mind if I ask how you found out about this plugin? Did you get lucky and buy from someone you knew or did you seek it out? Was it doing well before or did you grow it to this point. Edit: spelling
- kentt 9y ago
  Sure. I spent a ton of time finding something. Happy to answer any questions about the process. I found the plugin on flippa.com. Flippa has a lot of crap. Maybe almost all crap. But there are some good things there if you just watch for it. There was a really high quality magento plugin and there I wanted to buy and I chatted with the dev a bunch but it didn't work out. I was looking for something that was programming centric rather than sales/marketing centric, which is fairly limiting. And something that was <10k which means you have to filter through a lot of cruft. If I had more to spend then I would look on FEI which seems to have things that would be more interesting to programmers, but is a higher price point. Empire Flippers is another place I'd look. https://www.sideprojectors.com/ https://www.sideprojectors.com/ didn't seem to have anything interesting to me, but I checked there a bunch too. > Was it doing well before or did you grow it to this point. It's been a bit volatile so it's hard to say how it's trending, but I don't think I've helped or hurt it much. If anything it's making a bit less. Haven't prioritized working on it so I can't expect much.
xcubic 9y ago
Is it possible to message you?

by kentt 9y ago

omarchowdhury 9y ago

What's your plugin?

iamroot 9y ago
Answering this would kill his revenue by clones. :/
- ge96 9y ago
  iamroot

6DM 9y ago

Do you mind if I ask how you found out about this plugin? Did you get lucky and buy from someone you knew or did you seek it out? Was it doing well before or did you grow it to this point. Edit: spelling

kentt 9y ago
Sure. I spent a ton of time finding something. Happy to answer any questions about the process. I found the plugin on flippa.com. Flippa has a lot of crap. Maybe almost all crap. But there are some good things there if you just watch for it. There was a really high quality magento plugin and there I wanted to buy and I chatted with the dev a bunch but it didn't work out. I was looking for something that was programming centric rather than sales/marketing centric, which is fairly limiting. And something that was <10k which means you have to filter through a lot of cruft. If I had more to spend then I would look on FEI which seems to have things that would be more interesting to programmers, but is a higher price point. Empire Flippers is another place I'd look. https://www.sideprojectors.com/ https://www.sideprojectors.com/ didn't seem to have anything interesting to me, but I checked there a bunch too. > Was it doing well before or did you grow it to this point. It's been a bit volatile so it's hard to say how it's trending, but I don't think I've helped or hurt it much. If anything it's making a bit less. Haven't prioritized working on it so I can't expect much.

xcubic 9y ago

Is it possible to message you?