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Ask HN: Any one making a living selling WP themes?
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Re: Ask HN: Any one making a living selling WP themes?
#2Yes, there are people making a living selling WP themes. I sold over $200k in licenses to a plugin/theme combo in 18 months a few years back before selling rights to the product on Flippa. That paid off the last of my student loans, a new car, and was the downpayment on a house.
Re: Ask HN: Any one making a living selling WP themes?
#3There sure are people making enough money to live of selling themes and templates. I myself created a couple of WP themes almost two years ago and can still live from the revenue. I am however enrolled in university so my costs are significantly lower than they would be as a regular freelancer. The costs of living are always relative as to where you are in your life, your lifestyle and of course where you live. Someone living in a country where the dollar is much stronger than the local currency has a big advantage. What is also often forgotten about are taxes and insurance. You always have to have a little something saved up if a problem should arise.
If you have a solid code base, a few creative ideas and good graphic skills you can still make quite a bit of money. Of course it is always important to find a niche in the market that is not as over-saturated as others. But that basically applies to any other business.
Re: Ask HN: Any one making a living selling WP themes?
#4There sure are people making enough money to live of selling themes and templates. I myself created a couple of WP themes almost two years ago and can still live from the revenue. I am however enrolled in university so my costs are significantly lower than they would be as a regular freelancer. The costs of living are always relative as to where you are in your life, your lifestyle and of course where you live. Someo…
Do you sell your themes from your own site?
Re: Ask HN: Any one making a living selling WP themes?
#5There sure are people making enough money to live of selling themes and templates. I myself created a couple of WP themes almost two years ago and can still live from the revenue. I am however enrolled in university so my costs are significantly lower than they would be as a regular freelancer. The costs of living are always relative as to where you are in your life, your lifestyle and of course where you live. Someo…
Do you sell your themes from your own site?
No, I am selling through a very well known marketplace which will get a cut for each sale. In my opinion it is much easier to start with due to the high reach of potential customers you will get. As soon as you built a customer base you could probably consider selling the themes on your own site.
Re: Ask HN: Any one making a living selling WP themes?
#6Yes, there are people making a living selling WP themes. I sold over $200k in licenses to a plugin/theme combo in 18 months a few years back before selling rights to the product on Flippa. That paid off the last of my student loans, a new car, and was the downpayment on a house.
holy cow any chance you will write an article on it? I will upvote it :)
Re: Ask HN: Any one making a living selling WP themes?
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you sell your themes from your own site?
No, I am selling through a very well known marketplace which will get a cut for each sale. In my opinion it is much easier to start with due to the high reach of potential customers you will get. As soon as you built a customer base you could probably consider selling the themes on your own site.
what marketplace did you choose if you don't mind me asking... I tried themeforest and had no luck. I just don't know what these cats want.
Re: Ask HN: Any one making a living selling WP themes?
#8There are some people that make a nice living from selling themes, but it's not easy money that for sure. It's a jungle out there..
I have found this article: http://www.premiumwp.com/the-1-million-dollar-themeforest-pr...
Re: Ask HN: Any one making a living selling WP themes?
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, I am selling through a very well known marketplace which will get a cut for each sale. In my opinion it is much easier to start with due to the high reach of potential customers you will get. As soon as you built a customer base you could probably consider selling the themes on your own site.
what marketplace did you choose if you don't mind me asking... I tried themeforest and had no luck. I just don't know what these cats want.
Well, it's Themeforest. I agree that their rejection reasons often seem generic and somewhat random but with the amount of submissions they receive it is understandable. As I said, if the quality is right and you somehow stand out from the crowd chances are pretty high it'll get accepted.
Re: Ask HN: Any one making a living selling WP themes?
#10Yes, there are people making a living selling WP themes. I sold over $200k in licenses to a plugin/theme combo in 18 months a few years back before selling rights to the product on Flippa. That paid off the last of my student loans, a new car, and was the downpayment on a house.
holy cow any chance you will write an article on it? I will upvote it :)
If you are interested in that you should take a look at the Flippa listing which provided quite a bit of information of the business https://flippa.com/84185-11-000-month-revenue-no-1-in-market...