rogem002

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A year after monetising my Chrome Extension(mikerogers.io)
1 points by rogem002 9y ago|1 comments
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by rogem002 9y ago
Profession: Software Engineer (Remote, currently in Nunavut, Canada) [06:00] Woken up by cats poking my face, I roll out of bed & feed them a little bit of food then head back to bed. [08:00] Alarm goes off, I get up, grab a quick showe
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by rogem002 10y ago
I've been attempting to monetise my Google Chrome Extension for the last few months ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12925467 ). I felt I could never inject ads to my extension as I never had a sensible place to
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by rogem002 10y ago
I will ;)
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by rogem002 10y ago
For the duration it was open source and free, I saw little to nothing in the way of contributions. I can totally understand where you're coming from & for the most part I always try to compensate people who contribute for there tim
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by rogem002 10y ago
If you've played around with extensions, you should definitely consider making a paid one. The APIs you need to verify payment are pretty interesting. > Were the existing free users grandfathered in? It seems like it from the weekly
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by rogem002 10y ago
That's correct, for things like CSS & images it'll reload the asset without a hard reload. For HTML & JS changes it'll do a hard reload.
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by rogem002 10y ago
I've definitely been curious as to how much the sales would change if I had made it closed sourced. However I'm happy to take the loss in sales to enable technical enough users to be able to mess with the source code & (hopefu
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by rogem002 10y ago
That's interesting to hear. I'm thinking about experimenting with different prices next month, I'll make sure to do another write up :)
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by rogem002 10y ago
Awesome! What is your extension? I did look at in-app payments, but because of how the extension is made to be used (click the button, it starts reloading when required) I couldn't figure out a decent way to ask users to upgrade withou
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by rogem002 10y ago
I had one user message me complaining his all of clients websites would lag when he used the extension (It checks for changes to files by crudely polling them every 200ms or so). Turned out the guy was building sites via an FTP editor in a
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by rogem002 10y ago
I'd 100% push people towards offering an extension for free to build up a good amount of reviews & user base, then switching to any paid model (One off, Monthly Subscription or Annual Subscription). If people are happy to pay for
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by rogem002 10y ago
I wrote the extension and this blog post, so I'm happy to answer any follow up questions you might have :)
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Lessons learnt from monetising my Chrome Extension(mikerogers.io)
168 points by rogem002 10y ago|42 comments
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My first year as a Digital Nomad(mikerogers.io)
4 points by rogem002 11y ago|0 comments
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by rogem002 11y ago
IMO jQuery is one more thing the end user has to download and process, the more stuff we can strip out while keeping the same user experience is a good thing. Though I think most the people moving away from jQuery are doing it because the b
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by rogem002 12y ago
I wrote something similar a few months back https://github.com/MikeRogers0/justdelete.me-chrome-extensio... for Just Delete Me, though they offered a nice JSON file for me to use.
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by rogem002 13y ago
> The way I'm going to use this list is to look up services before I sign up. You should try the Chrome Extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/justdeleteme/hfpof... I wrote using the Just
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by rogem002 13y ago
I changed my password to something difficult to memorise which was stored in an online password vault. The result was it took an extra 20 seconds to login, which proved to be a very effective way to stop using facebook.
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by rogem002 13y ago
Did you even watch past the first 30 seconds of the video?
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by rogem002 13y ago
If it's ok, here is mine as well https://github.com/MikeRogers0/LivePage It monitors the HTML/CSS then reloads the page when something has changed. I made it when I was a full time front end developer, it sti
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CensorZilla (2004)(jwz.org)
4 points by rogem002 13y ago|2 comments
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by rogem002 14y ago
The default subreddits have suffered from an eternal september, if you unsubscribe from them & find the more niche subreddits it gets a lot better.
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by rogem002 14y ago
While this is an option, I prefer to stream my music than have it using space on my solid state drive and I only have premium to avoid adverts.
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by rogem002 14y ago
I'm guessing you have root control of the server? Install Varnish, it's a reverse proxy that caches request results in the RAM.
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by rogem002 14y ago
They are not unprofitable, they are just quite slim http://www.dailyfinance.com/2013/01/29/amazon-earnings-stron... (It's profit margin on a product is 0.5%).
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by rogem002 14y ago
> This economic downturn is breeding a whole generation of just-try-to-stop-me kids. I disagree that the economic downturn is the cause of these young peoples motivations. I would argue that due to a large amount of people achieving a h
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by rogem002 14y ago
Yeah there is: http://toolong-didntread.com/feed
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by rogem002 14y ago
3 million downloads bringing in $10K revenues, that dosen't seem like a huge amount of money considering the spike in users of the app.
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by rogem002 14y ago
Hopefully Microsoft will stop dragging it's feet with Windows Phone 8. I dred to think of a mobile market with only two decent OS options.

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