How I made $18k on CodeCanyon

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Post by maxko » Tue, Jul 31, 2018, 8:16 PM UTC

How I made $18k on CodeCanyon
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Re: How I made $18k on CodeCanyon

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Post by pnloyd » Wed, Aug 01, 2018, 1:42 AM UTC

I hope you were just doing this as a side project. Doesn't seem like it was too lucrative at ~$800 a month. And why delete the plugins off Codecanyon?

Re: How I made $18k on CodeCanyon

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Post by maxko » Wed, Aug 01, 2018, 6:49 AM UTC

pnloyd wrote: post #2

I hope you were just doing this as a side project. Doesn't seem like it was too lucrative at ~$800 a month. And why delete the plugins off Codecanyon?

Yep, it was a side project, I'm living in a Eastern Europe (where avg. salaries are less than $500/mo), so ~$800/mo was a good additional income for me. It probably would not worth it if you're living in US/EU.

Re: How I made $18k on CodeCanyon

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Post by josephjrobison » Wed, Aug 01, 2018, 1:44 PM UTC

Congrats! Even for a freelance developer in the US, this is significant money, and doesn’t require directly trading time for money.

And the most important thing is that you’ve built a solid foundation to improve upon. Most people can’t ship as much as you have, and most don’t have the foresight to write a blog post about it.

I’ve started to notice similar things on the economics of themes and plugins on Themeforest. Unless you’re a top selling theme/plugin the revenues don’t often provide enough to encourage updates. I’ve had a few themes I bought go not-updated for years, so I have to switch to more popular and robust themes that I know will be supported.

Re: How I made $18k on CodeCanyon

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Post by maxko » Wed, Aug 01, 2018, 3:00 PM UTC

josephjrobison wrote: post #4

Congrats! Even for a freelance developer in the US, this is significant money, and doesn’t require directly trading time for money. And the most important thing is that you’ve built a solid foundation to improve upon. Most people can’t ship as much as you have, and most don’t have the foresight to write a blog post about it. I’ve started to notice similar things on the economics of themes and plugins on Themeforest.…

Thanks for your feedback! I totally agree with you regarding the issue with non-top selling items - most of them have never been updated, so it's like a playing in lottery.

Re: How I made $18k on CodeCanyon

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Post by nowayhose » Wed, Aug 01, 2018, 3:08 PM UTC

Why delete it though? Was support too much?

Re: How I made $18k on CodeCanyon

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Post by maxko » Wed, Aug 01, 2018, 3:49 PM UTC

nowayhose wrote: post #6

Why delete it though? Was support too much?

Support didn't take much time. However I felt that my plugins were outdated and they were too simple and haven't added a real value to WordPress eco-system.

Re: How I made $18k on CodeCanyon

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Post by jwilbs » Wed, Aug 01, 2018, 8:02 PM UTC

Great blog post; interesting, relevant, and to the point.

Does anyone know of any other hubs for content creation that don’t keep such a steep % of $?

Re: How I made $18k on CodeCanyon

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Post by maxko » Thu, Aug 02, 2018, 6:04 AM UTC

jwilbs wrote: post #8

Great blog post; interesting, relevant, and to the point. Does anyone know of any other hubs for content creation that don’t keep such a steep % of $?

Thanks for your feedback!

I think http://ui8.net may be a viable option for now if we're talking about design/ui-kits/templates/etc. However, I'm not sure how big their customer base is.