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Re: Show HN: I make $3K/mo from a browser extension

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Post by Rastonbury »

trungdq88 wrote: post #7
elpakal wrote: post #6

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Your products all look very well done - just curious, do you build them all yourself (including your awesome landing page)? Congrats on the early growth and best of luck. What a great product - I’ll be looking out for your post on how you built your 13.9k audience!

Yes, I'm a 1-man army :) I used to work on frontend/backend/mobile/devops, so I have the advantage of doing everything on my own. Thanks for the kind words! I'll write another piece about my audience building journey soon!

I second this, your landing page is very well done

Re: Show HN: I make $3K/mo from a browser extension

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

antisthenes wrote: post #28
Gigachad wrote: post #21

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I wonder how much of it is a zero sum game. Some amount of advertising would induce impulse purchase but surely some of it like marketing for a plumber just causes sales to be redirected to the one who spent the most on marketing rather than actually creating new sales.

Google's business model for the last decade has been to pitch people who want advertising against each other, bidding ever higher for top placements. It's up to you to decide whether that's a zero-sum game (personally I don't think it is by a strict definition), but Google is certainly responsible for more and more companies allocating an ever growing part of their budget to advertising. It isn't immediately obvious…

I suppose in theory people only have so much to spend but on the other hand growing the economy grows that disposable income.

What I found was indirect competitors with deep VC funded pockets were bidding rates high enough that it wasn't viable for me. I say indirect as they didn't compete against my product but did bid on the same keywords.

I wonder if there is some upper limit on how much advertisers can extract from the economy before they start to weaken it.

Re: Show HN: I make $3K/mo from a browser extension

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Post by trungdq88 »

Rastonbury wrote: post #31
trungdq88 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I'm a 1-man army :) I used to work on frontend/backend/mobile/devops, so I have the advantage of doing everything on my own. Thanks for the kind words! I'll write another piece about my audience building journey soon!

I second this, your landing page is very well done

Thank you! I spent a lot of time on that :)

Re: Show HN: I make $3K/mo from a browser extension

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Post by markdown »

karimf wrote: post #33
trungdq88 wrote: post #4

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I use Paddle.com

Is there any reason for using Paddle instead of Stripe or something else?

Good question. I can't seem to find out anything about them on their website. It's just buzzword after buzzword. WTF is "revenue delivery"?

I figure a pricing page would tell me what they do, but they don't even have one of those.

Re: Show HN: I make $3K/mo from a browser extension

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Post by trungdq88 »

karimf wrote: post #33
trungdq88 wrote: post #4

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I use Paddle.com

Is there any reason for using Paddle instead of Stripe or something else?

The only reason I use Paddle is because it handles VAT tax for me as the merchant of record. Stripe doesn't.
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