It surprised me too. I started charging a few months ago after it was free for ~7 years. Now I'm making $600 a month off of it. Paying users seem to be part pr

It surprised me too. I started charging a few months ago after it was free for ~7 years. Now I'm making $600 a month off of it. Paying users seem to be part productivity nerds who maybe aren't technical enough to grok installing from the repo, and part people who just choose to pay for the automatic upgrades or to support the developer. Also, lots of users are web gamers who use it for in-game automation. I wrote a post about it 1 week after monetizing, if you're curious: https://critter.blog/2020/01/14/week-1-of-monetizing-my-chrome-extension/ https://critter.blog/2020/01/14/week-1-of-monetizing-my-chro...