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How I Built A $600/mo Product In One Day

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I'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.

I'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/

That's good enough. I've added my info to your waiting list. Can't wait to see what you build!

I'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.

I 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.

You 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.

I'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.

Very nice step by step instructions from zero to product. We need more of these.

Thanks for the support. I'd love to go into more depth if anyone's got any questions.

Hasn'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.

Actually, 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.

How 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) ?

Insightful, thanks. Please drop us a thread/article in a few months, so we may see the sales curve.

Very informative and motivating at the same time! Thanks for sharing.

i'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.

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