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Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

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Post by euroclydon »

KevinUK wrote: post #27
euroclydon wrote: post #3

I make $300-$500/mo. with http://www.makecupcakewrappers.com I started it three years ago with a single web page and an email-me-when-it's-ready form. I barely got enough emails (50-60) in the first couple months to justify moving forward. But I did, with three designs and a simple design-by-form interface. Fast forward to today and I have dozens of templates and a custom drag and drop interface done in canvas. I hav…

It's interesting that you have adwords on your homepage. Does it bring in any revenue? To me it detracts from the overall look of the site. I just Googled custom cupcake design and you are 4th, maybe there just aren't that many people after the service?

I plastered them all over the site in an experiment to see if I could move to 100% ad based monitization since so many visitors are just looking for free printables, but they only make like $50/mo. So I need to remove them. I just haven't gotten around to it yet. The whole site is just a playground at this point since the search volume indicates I'm close to maxing out the potential revenue. My next move is to package the technology as Custom Designed Printable X for your business and sell it along with a setup and maintenance fee.

Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

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Post by sumang »

ericthegoodking wrote: post #28
sumang wrote: post #22

Making 500 Euro per month and after expenses I am making 450 euro . My first customer and 110 customers in beta list which I am going to starting releasing beta next week . here is the product . http://bit.ly/HDcvfA

This is inspirational! are you working on it alone or do you have a "team"?

got 2 freelancers , but as a founder , I am alone. I am a 2 time failed entrepreneur and both times Investors rejected my startup just bcoz I am a single founder, but still fighting alone to show what a one person can do :)

Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

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Post by huhtenberg »

Carmack, Romero and two other guys were making $60K a month from Commander Keen in its shareware format. That's after Apogee's 60% cut.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander_Keen

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Doom-Created-Transformed-Cultu... - highly recommended, really good read

Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

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Post by peacemaker »

dbond wrote: post #18
peacemaker wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a few products actually, mainly aimed at small businesses who need web software. My main product is http://paymentsplugin.com which gets most of the sales. I enjoy putting products together though, some hit, others miss. It's good practice on the sales and marketing side of things too as I'm mostly a developer.

Interesting product, how well is selling through envato working for you? I've looked at it before but the rates seemed a little too much for new members.

It's a tough trade-off really. Envato have millions of members so I get regular sales but the commission rates are very unfavorable. I'm working on moving some of my more popular products from Envato marketplaces and onto my own websites. It's a slow process though as I want to keep the benefits of the traffic from Envato throughout. Plus I'm still learning with regards to internet marketing and can't hope to attract the types of traffic Envato can bring me.

Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

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Post by robotmay »

scoot wrote: post #20
robotmay wrote: post #15

Currently https://www.photographer.io is costing me about £100 a month to run, as its income is only via referrals to Digital Ocean until I add a subscription model. I've been holding off for a few months as I don't feel happy charging for something which I still feel is incomplete; at what point do other people feel happy charging users for their products? I'm thinking of offering early adopters a significant discou…

> I don't feel happy charging for something which I still feel is incomplete It's not so much a question of what you feel happy charging for, as what your customers are happy paying for. The only way to find out is to add paid tiers and see what happens. You can always round out the feature set by adding additional 'premium' features to the paid tiers - free upgrades for paying customers!

Aye I have a number of features planned which will need subscriptions. One of them is the ability to host your own portfolio site on the platform, which I'm planning to add fairly soon as I need it for my brother's and father's websites :D

Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

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Post by Omnipresent »

dangrossman wrote: post #30

Improvely ( https://www.improvely.com ) passed $10k/mo RR not too long ago and is about a year old. I run several other SaaS sites with a couple thousand a month in revenue each. It's enough that I never regret turning down the standing job offers I had at the end of college 3 years ago. Nothing really compared to the short-lived but very successful WordPress plugins I used to build and sell. A few days' work could t…

How do you decided on which product to build and the market to target?

Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

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Post by peacemaker »

dangrossman wrote: post #30

Improvely ( https://www.improvely.com ) passed $10k/mo RR not too long ago and is about a year old. I run several other SaaS sites with a couple thousand a month in revenue each. It's enough that I never regret turning down the standing job offers I had at the end of college 3 years ago. Nothing really compared to the short-lived but very successful WordPress plugins I used to build and sell. A few days' work could t…

Hey Dan,

I'm selling Wordpress plugins right now with nothing near the same success as you. Do you think it's a market that is too saturated to achieve the level of sales you saw?

I'd also love to hear how you managed to attract the number of users to your website that gave you over $250k in sales? It's something I'm having trouble with right now and any pointers would be greatly appreciated!

Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

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Post by bensmiley »

I make around $600 per month on http://www.binpress.com. I sell 6 software components for iOS. Most of them were component that I had already developed for other projects. I just tidied them up and made them available for purchase. The income's very passive - max 2 hours a week. Here's a link to my profile: http://www.binpress.com/profile/ben-smiley/14290
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