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Re: Show HN: My first try at a WordPress plugin

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Post by lifeisstillgood »

loahou04 wrote: post #20
jhaaps wrote: post #2

There is no such thing as HN worthy. I for one am glad for all the links people post here and click the ones that interest me.

I'm with jhaaps on this! As a group i think our industry is very much into sharing anything and everything we have done, its like our bragging rights even if it is just clicking a button or checking a checkbox. I dont know how many times things that are that simple take me hours to find only to find a google search post that has the answer right there for me.

I always tell (told) my juniors that Google telling you the answers is not as likely to be remembered in 6 weeks as the answer you found for yourself.

And the debugging, test routines you had to write to figure it out will help next time

Re: Show HN: My first try at a WordPress plugin

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Post by mst »

thisisdallas wrote: post #18
splatzone wrote: post #3

I love the design and the icons, but I'm not confident I'd want to spend $7 on something I could probably whip up in a few minutes in HTML + CSS. I can see this being useful to a lot of non-tech-savvy bloggers, though. Good luck.

Thanks for the kind words, I really appreciate it. It's funny you mention the price because I thought that was a little high too. Code canyon decides on what price the items sell at, and as far as I know, the author has no control over that. Personally I was thinking maybe around four to five dollars but since commission is only 50% ill be ok with $7 :)

Don't worry too much about the "I could make this" people - there's plenty out there who couldn't, and plenty of people who'd rather just spend the money and move on than find out if it's a few minutes' work or not.

Re: Show HN: My first try at a WordPress plugin

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Post by splatzone »

thisisdallas wrote: post #18
splatzone wrote: post #3

I love the design and the icons, but I'm not confident I'd want to spend $7 on something I could probably whip up in a few minutes in HTML + CSS. I can see this being useful to a lot of non-tech-savvy bloggers, though. Good luck.

Thanks for the kind words, I really appreciate it. It's funny you mention the price because I thought that was a little high too. Code canyon decides on what price the items sell at, and as far as I know, the author has no control over that. Personally I was thinking maybe around four to five dollars but since commission is only 50% ill be ok with $7 :)

Oh this is Envato isn't it? Weird, I've sold stuff on AudioJungle before but I've never tried CodeCanyon. Hope you make a good profit :)

Re: Show HN: My first try at a WordPress plugin

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Post by famousactress »

thisisdallas wrote: post #18
splatzone wrote: post #3

I love the design and the icons, but I'm not confident I'd want to spend $7 on something I could probably whip up in a few minutes in HTML + CSS. I can see this being useful to a lot of non-tech-savvy bloggers, though. Good luck.

Thanks for the kind words, I really appreciate it. It's funny you mention the price because I thought that was a little high too. Code canyon decides on what price the items sell at, and as far as I know, the author has no control over that. Personally I was thinking maybe around four to five dollars but since commission is only 50% ill be ok with $7 :)

I don't think the price is high at all. 3.50 and 7 dollars are exactly the same to me. They're both below the fold in my mentality for something like this, and like other commenters have pointed out.. to build and cross browser test? Well even if you can whip it up in 20 or 30 minutes with testing, it's still worthwhile at seven bucks.
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