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How I Built A $600/mo Product In One Day
- Jun8 16y agoVery nice step by step instructions from zero to product. We need more of these.
- burningion 16y agoThanks for the support. I'd love to go into more depth if anyone's got any questions.
- elliottcarlson 16y agoI'm mostly curious what the revenue curve is on this project - was the majority of the earnings within the first week? How do sales dwindle when using this route? Either way - great job and very informative.
- mikepurvis 16y agoI'm intrigued that you have that many buyers on wpplugins.com. Are people signing up for your support contract, or is that really 40 purchases in the first month? Do you expect this volume to continue, rise, or trail off? In any case, I had a reasonably successful plugin a while ago that I still get occasionally pestered to update... I'd be a lot more motivated to do so if I thought I could release it to a marketplace and net a few hundred a month.
- armandososa 16y agoI'm not good with plugs and self-promotion but we are building a solution that may turn out better than wp-plugins. http://plugik.com/ http://plugik.com/
- burningion 16y agoThat's good enough. I've added my info to your waiting list. Can't wait to see what you build!
- burningion 16y agoI'd say go for it. One major problem I had in the past was not taking into account the effects of growth over time. The Wordpress marketplace is growing. Even if you've only got x amount of sales immediately, you can iterate, build stuff to sell back to your customers you've already acquired, and generally grow with compound interest. No matter what you build, entropy will be built into your product. You can't ever sit on something and expect growth without continual effort. That's another major illusion I've struggled to deal with. Takeaway: It takes the smallest snowball to begin rolling along and building momentum.
- mikepurvis 16y agoI know that in the general case, passive income is a pipe dream, but it's just particularly frustrating with Wordpress how you have to be always chasing the API and fixing breakages every point-version. My plugin was particularly bad, I supposed, since I was manipulating the admin interface with JavaScript, so every time they tweaked pretty much anything, it would fall apart.
- golgo13 16y agoVery informative and motivating at the same time! Thanks for sharing.
- deskamess 16y agoYou took us from concept to implementation to actual usage. Along the way you included just the right amount of implementation info (your use of google alerts) and pointed out why you made some choices (wpplugins vs. other). Well written. I shall second Jun8 - need more articles like this.
- slouch 16y agoi'm curious when you submitted to wpplugins.com. i wrote them off as dead after my plugin sat pending for a week last month. they didn't respond to my emails, either.
- adn37 16y agoInsightful, thanks. Please drop us a thread/article in a few months, so we may see the sales curve.
- Whinner 16y agoHasn't contnent avalanche been out for years? Www.contentavalanche.org has a 2007 copyright and I know I've read about it on some "guru" sites.
- burningion 16y agoActually, I came up with the name, and only found out later that it had already been a product. Woops, stuff happens when you build and launch in a day.
- sireat 16y agoHow can you say people might be pirating it, if you say that wpplugins.com requires that plugins are released under GPL? In fact, I am wondering how this works. Are plugin authors providing support as an value added service? Otherwise, what is to stop someone crazy enough to buy all the relevant plugins and release them on their own site(pay or free) ?